Africa’s bumpy road to regional economic cooperation (2)

Release of food from strategic reserves: Is the timing right?

LAST WEEK, 49 AFRICAN COUNTRIES represented at the US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington DC, were considered as being in “good standing” with the United States of America, in which case leaders of four countries were excluded from the summit. Like other similar summits routinely convened by China, Japan and – very recently – Russia, the […]

Africa’s bumpy road to regional economic cooperation

Release of food from strategic reserves: Is the timing right?

COUNTRIES OF WEST AFRICA have an uphill task before them on the political and economic fronts. Recent events have proved rather distressing and they clearly signpost greater causes for worries about the sub-region’s future. Economic policies of countries and regional groupings seem neither promising nor reassuring. Politically and economically, the West African sub-region is divided […]

Crisis hotspots and Africa’s security (7)

Release of food from strategic reserves: Is the timing right?

WEST AFRICAN SUB-REGION is undergoing some security challenges that began insidiously, but are now burgeoning to existential crisis. In the past decade and a half, the sub-region has become a hotbed of insecurity, with the unprecedented rise in cases of terrorism, in various forms, involving the death of hundreds of people, displacement of millions of […]

Crisis hotspots and Africa’s security (6)

Release of food from strategic reserves: Is the timing right?

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA is indeed a troubled zone. Terrorist incursions within the regions of Africa have become a continent-wide crisis that shows no sign of immediate decline, one with potential of consuming the entire continent. Its impact on nations is becoming ever so glaring on the social, political and economic fronts, placing lives and businesses at […]

Crisis hotspots and Africa’s security (5)

Crisis hotspots and Africa’s security (5)

TERRORISM AND TERRORISTS have become a global phenomenon. Despite the widespread disapproval of their existence and activities, they grow and expand in influence nonetheless. They thrive and flourish despite the havoc they wreak everywhere they operate in, leaving footprints of deaths, destructions and socio-economic crisis behind. They thrive on money.  Those involved in terrorism don’t […]

Crisis hotspots and Africa’s security (3)

Crisis hotspots and Africa’s security (5)

Monthly Counter-Terrorism Intelligence Brief for East Africa (Kenya & Somalia) Shabaab Al-Mujahideen in Period of February 1st – February 28th, 2022: Tracking and Monitoring Al-Shabaab’s Activity in East Africa – Strategic Intelligence EAST AFRICAN REGION has come to live with the unsavoury experience of terrorism bred and exported to neighbouring countries within the region. Somalia […]

Crisis hotspots and Africa’s security (2)

Crisis hotspots and Africa’s security (5)

FAILED STATES IN AFRICA are now the breeding grounds for agents of destabilisation and instability at national and regional levels. They are like contagions in their destructive effects on other countries nearby and sometimes remotely and far flung. Not only have they been ridden in crises, they have contributed in no small measure to crises […]

Crisis hotspots and Africa’s security

Crisis hotspots and Africa’s security (5)

VIRUNGA VOLCANIC REGION spans across the borders of three countries. These are Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It is a troubled region as its eruptions have attracted global recognition. Part of the Virunga supersite is Mount Nyiragongo, situated in a chain of volcanic regions at the southern sector of Virunga National […]

Migration and demographic dynamics in Africa (3) 

Crisis hotspots and Africa’s security (5)

GLOBALISATION IN THE African context has only changed in form and norm but not structurally since the legendary “discovery” of the continent began with Christopher Columbus as a historical benchmark and baseline. The slave trade, while it lasted, was a lucrative legal enterprise of what is today an illegal embodiment of human trafficking. It was […]

Migration and demographic dynamics in Africa (2)

Crisis hotspots and Africa’s security (5)

  LEADERS REPRESENTING 44 European countries gathered at the weekend in Prague, capital of Czech Republic, for a symbolic summit with energy prospects and security as top items on their agenda as the winter sets in. They have come under pressure to find viable and dependable alternative sources of energy for their population to forestall […]