SPECIAL EDITION : PEACE AND SECURITY IN AFRICA
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APSACO 6th edition: African Security in Times of Uncertainties
After two special online editions, the African Peace and Security Annual Conference is finally back for a hybrid edition on "African Security in Times of Uncertainties".
The conference, which will be held on Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st of July, 2022, is intended to be a moment of exchange allowing the analysis of the place and the influence of Africa in the light of its levers and assets, its history, and its ability to overcome its weaknesses to adapt to global changes.
Stay tuned on our website and our Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter pages, for more updates.
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Conflits intercommunautaires, groupes armés et un processus multi-acteurs de consolidation de la paix : cas du Cercle de Niono au Mali
Dans un contexte de gouvernance complexe, où autorités traditionnelles et modernes se côtoient même si leur pouvoir décroît, le Mali connait depuis de nombreuses années une situation sécuritaire alarmante, notamment dans le centre du pays. La montée des tensions entre communautés agricoles et pastorales est aggravée par la présence de groupes extrémistes. La population du Cercle de Niono, dans la région de Ségou, a été victime de violences inouïes pendant plusieurs mois avant que des accords de cessez-le-feu soient conclus en mars 2021 entre groupes djihadistes et milices d’autodéfense...
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SAHEL: Moving Beyond Military Containment Policy Report
Almost ten years after the beginning of the security crisis in the Sahel, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger face a graver predicament than ever before. In the throes of multiple insurgencies, they and their foreign patrons, including France, have shown the limits of military containment. While these three countries are the victims of terrorist aggression, their crises also have deep domestic roots, including long-standing patterns of state abuses of their populations, even in the more democratic ones; neglect of governance responsibilities and very weak capacity to provide public goods, including security and justice; exclusionary politics whereby some communities find themselves systematically marginalized while others behave ...
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Mozambique: A New Civil War?
How did an insurrection in Northern Mozambique escalate into a crisis that is drawing myriad external actors, and risks destabilizing the region? What are the colonial and Cold War origins of this conflict in Cabo Delgado? Why is Rwanda such a prominent intervener? How are tensions between Kigali, Maputo and Pretoria playing out in the peacekeeping operation now underway?...
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Private Military and Security Companies: A New Form of Mercenarism?
Mercenaries, private contractors, soldiers of fortune, dogs of war, guns for hire, war lords ... These are some of the names given to individuals working for private companies that provide military and security services. The debate around the use of these companies is deeply polarized, with some authors portraying such military ...
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Africafé : The situation in the Sahel and the ongoing conflicts
In this episode of Africafé rida al yamouri will talk about the ongoing conflicts in the sahel evoking the instability in the Mali and Burkina faso and proposes ways forward and greater engagement from the international community in helping states in the region
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Private Military and Security Companies
The debate around the use of private military and security companies is deeply polarized, with some authors portraying such military contractors as ‘messiahs’, praising their efficiency in modern conflicts and their expertise, while others perceive them as simple ‘hired guns’. However, the debate about legitimacy and legality aside, the privatization of security and of military forces is perhaps one of the most important changes in the security field in recent years. In this episode, Nihal El Mquirmi enlightens us about this this new form of mercenarism.
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حديث الثلاثاء: الساحل بين الإضطرابات الأمنية و الأزمة الديمقراطية
تُعد دول الساحل دولا ضعيفة و هشة النبية نظرا لتزايد الإرهاب والاضطراب الإثني والطائفي. فإنها على طوال تقلبها منذ استقلالها في دورة ثلاثية بين الانقلاب وفترة انتقالية وحكومة مدنية، تعاني سلسلة ردات فعل داخلية وخارجية، وجميعها تشير إلى مشكلة الانهيار وصعوبة التكيف مع وضع مستقر. وتعود أسباب ذلك إلى سياسات متوالية بين ما تريده شعوب هذه الدول من بسط للحريات والديمقراطية والعدالة، وبين استغلال العسكر الغضب الشعبي من الحروب والاضطرابات الاقتصادية والأمنية والسياسية وقصور أجهزة الدولة، لتنفيذ انقلاباتهم
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Africafé : La CENSAD comme cadre de coopération au Sahel
Dans cet épisode Abdelhak Bassou senior fellow au Policy Center for the New South analyse les différentes implications liées à la CEN-SAD et son développement ainsi que les opportunités pour cette organisation de faire une coordination entre les organisations régionales en matière de paix et de sécurité.
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