The legal status of SADC’s mission in Cabo Delgado
At present, SAMIM is operating in Cabo Delgado with the full consent of the Mozambican government. Despite initial resistance to SADC involvement, Mozambique has consented to the SADC deployment.
The Value of Fostering a Culture of Peace and Non-violence
In the aftermath of the socio-political upheavals of the end of the last century, the Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) quickly took a stand and declared in unison the need to work for the development of peace, stability and non-violence.
The Role of Parliamentarians in the fight against COVID-19
In SADC, Parliaments are at the forefront of the #COVID19 response and can play a leading role in putting in place the legal and budgetary frameworks necessary to mitigate the spread and negative effects of the pandemic.
Regional Migration and the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Africa
In 2020, the government of South Africa announced a new Border Management Act that introduces a single authority to oversee the border environment, and it has also amended the Refugee Act.
For the sake of our children and youth: Let us build safer and more harmonious post-COVID-19 societies
Children are under siege in South Africa, and we are exposing our glaring failures to them; in schools, and in the homes where they are supposed to find sanctuary and be the safest, adolescent girls of all ages are victims of unspeakable violence.
Lake Chad Basin and stabilisation in the post-Shekau era
ISWAP, noticing the vacuum created by the death of Shekau, seized the opportunity to move in and present itself as the most prominent violent extremist group in the region, and has deepened its relationship with the Islamic State (IS), thus making itself a global threat and expanding the network and reach of such groups.
COVID-19 and peacebuilding in Africa: Youth, resilience and innovation options
African youths have always been, formally or informally, part of the continent’s response to peace and security challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted yet other positive and inherent characteristics of African youth that challenge the negative stereotype that they are synonymous with social disruption and are harbingers of violence
Civil society and stabilization in the Lake Chad region
The Lake Chad Basin Regional Strategy for Stabilization, Recovery and Resilience (RSS), adopted in August 2018, identified the eight governors as the primary mechanism for cross-border cooperation as well as domesticating the implementation of this Strategy.
Is the women, peace and security (WPS) agenda useful in non-war contexts? The case of Eswatini
Conflict and violence need to be understood in localised contexts and realities; this allows for an understanding of conflict that is unique to a country’s history and socio-political reality. Eswatini does not exhibit the signs of what the WPS agenda considers conflict.
A crowded place with few solutions: old and new players in the geopolitics of the Sahel
From a general perspective it can be said that every actor in the Sahel is walking on a tight rope trying to achieve limited objectives, without remaining stuck in the many complexities of the local political milieu.