This article assess whether shifts in the African security landscape will influence the situation in Western Sahara by maintaining the status quo or revitalising the efforts to resolve or exacerbate the existing tensions.
The April edition of the Monitor headlines an article by Ambassador Maud Dlomo, the Deputy Director-General at the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO). In it she outlines South
Highlighting the need for a migration-sensitive approach to border militarisation.
Examining the challenges and resilience of borderline communities in the Southern African region.
This article examines the conflict between migrant farmers and nomadic herders in the Kwahu Afram Plains District and shows that conflict over access to land does not only occur between indigenous and migrant groups but also between migrant groups.
This article examines the Bawku chieftaincy conflict in the Upper East Region of Ghana and suggests that a shared political and landownership system has the potential to resolve the struggle for absolute control of the Bawku paramountcy.
45 years ago, Africa was confronted with its first inter-state war when Somalia tried to annex the Ogaden from Ethiopia. This PPB offers insight into the conflict.
In the past weeks tensions between the DRC and Rwanda were on the rise once more. These tensions are also an indication that previous agreements between the DRC and Rwanda still suffer from lack of implementation.
China’s stakes in the region and why Beijing has interests in enhancing its security role in the Sahel.
Progress on global collective action to deal with climate change is a necessity and the last UN report on where we are at shows that we are not close to meeting the targeted emissions by 2050