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BY THE TIME THE roaring hurricane of the ravaging Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic must have spent its fury and the lull of calm sets in, various countries of the world will wake up to diverse realities. Much of these realities will either be consequences of years of hard work, meticulous scenario thinking and strategic planning or […]

CONFIGURATIONS OF national and Africa’s continental security architecture are about to undergo unprecedented changes arising from the prevalent global Coronavirus (or COVID-19) pandemic. The changes, which will take different forms post-COVID-19, will vary in the extent of impacts in various countries. What will be common to all is the inescapable truth that the impacts of […]

TRUTHS KNOWN ABOUT security lapses in Africa may continue to be frankly discussed at the office corridors, on dinner tables, in beer parlours, at the bus stops, newspaper stands or in political science and history classrooms while officials and discussants in government and diplomatic circles continue to do window dressing and talking tongue-in-cheek. The official […]

FOUR WEEKS AGO, Germany played host to world leaders at the 56th Munich Security Conference (MSC) in which presidents, prime ministers, foreign and defence ministers from more than 40 countries were either present or were represented. Influential private companies were also represented, for their roles and relevance in the subject matter of security. About a […]

JUST THIS WEEKEND, news had it that the total number of cases of infections of Coronavirus (code-named COVID-19) infections worldwide has exceeded 100,000 while the total number of deaths arising from or associated with the infections is now in excess of 3,000. It was also indicated that over 55,000 of those infected have recovered. These […]

Two months since the beginning of last December, a number of truths have been unshackled from the forces of gravity and have come from the depths to the surface, floating now like weightless feathers on troubled waters. Li Wenliang, a medical doctor made a tentative diagnosis and did a social media posting on Weibo to […]

ADVOCACY and sensitisation are good, but they are not sufficient in cases of unpredictable outbreaks of infections with no known or documented precedents. The approach to handling disease outbreaks should be multidimensional. Health authorities on the global front need to work out protocols for safe, easy and quick diagnostic tests in cases of novel infections, […]

DISEASES AND INFECTIONS of epidemic proportions are becoming more frequent as recurring decimals at a global level. The consequences of globalisation are increasingly being felt as the speed, frequency and sheer number of trips across the globe increased exponentially over the past three decades. Within this period, beginning from the early 1990s, political reforms leading […]

SAHARA DESERT OCCUPIES an important place in Africa, in terms of size, location and history on the continent. It has assumed such significance that it is used to define or delineate parts of the continent when considering it in the two broad categories as north or south. Of the 54 countries in Africa, 12 are […]

  ASSUMPTIONS, CLAIMS AND ASSERTIONS about Africa being a continent that holds the hope for the global food security of the future have gone largely unquestioned. These have been repeated by many public commentators and development actors who expressed optimism about the forest resources in the south of Equator as if those forests are cast […]