Towards a Renewed AU-UN Partnership: Financing of African Union Led Peace Support Operations
It is time now – more than ever – for the UN Security Council to endorse one of the funding models outlined by Secretary-General Guterres for the predictable, sustainable, and flexible financing of AU-led operations and modalities for AU missions to access UN accessed contributions.
How Not to Do UN Peacekeeping
UN peacekeeping is now under new pressure because of a significant loss of trust between its three large stabilisation operations and their host countries
SADC deployment into Eastern DRC: Implications and Opportunities
It is important to underscore that peace and stability continue to be elusive in the eastern DRC and the region as the conflict goes back decades
Impact of Border Insecurity on AfCFTA Trade Facilitation
Borders and borderlands in Africa have become spaces where the nexus of security, development, crime, conflict and politics often interface and collide.
Africa’s Digital Gender Divide
Despite the efforts and moderate digital progress that Africa has made throughout the decades, a need still exists to further their digital development.
Striving for peace in Africa’s Great Lakes region: Ongoing efforts to resolve the current crisis
Ongoing peace processes attest to a new dynamic; they signal a quest for finding regional solutions to peace and security challenges in the Great Lakes region
The Role, Progress and Challenges of the EAC Regional Force in the Eastern DRC
The East African region is to mobilise soldiers to work in cooperation with FARDC and administrative forces to support the political dialogue between rebels and the government, provide civilian protection, enforce peace agreements and contain, defeat and eradicate negative forces in the country
Receptivity and Reintegration of Ex-Boko Haram Associates in the Lake Chad Basin Region
The recent mass exits from Boko Haram present an inevitable yet unique opportunity to take stock of earlier efforts to encourage defections from Boko Haram factions
Latest developments in the transition to a civilian government in Sudan
Since the end of last year, Sudan’s political faction groups – the military leadership and civilian political parties – have been negotiating a peace accord aimed at reinstating a civilian administration
Dialogue as a conflict transformation tool in Cabo Delgado
The PAG is a politically neutral regional initiative harnessing the experience and expertise of its members to support peace and development processes in Cabo Delgado