Security Issues

Nigeria has experienced a political changeover due to the presidential and parliamentary elections on 28 March 2015, enabling Muhammadu Buhari – a retired general who was in power between 1983 and 1985...

Since gaining independence in 1960, Somalia has enjoyed only a few periods of stability. 

Piracy and armed robbery at sea are a threat to security in the hydrocarbon-rich Gulf of Guinea.

Nowadays, the Central African Republic (CAR) is a country dependent on international aid.

South Sudan is still neither a state nor a nation. Torn apart by ethnic rivalries, divided between diverging ideas about state organization, its only means of political dialogue is war. 

Boko Haram was created in 2002 and has been led since 2010 by Abubakar Shekau; however, we still know little about it. 

How transparent are the Democratic Republic of Congo’s regional strategies?

On December 13, 2013, in response to an Interpol initiative, the first ever African Conference on pharmaceutical crime was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Its final communiqué declared the intention of 20 countries to reinforce the struggle against the production of counterfeit drugs.

Both perpetrators and forms of violence change. States are no longer the central referents of contemporary conflicts. We can no longer understand them as the outcome of a linear history starting from tribal societies and leading to Western political structures.

Displaced peoples, insecurity over food and sanitation, economic devastation, worsening community tensions: the Central African Republic is going through what must be the worst crisis in its history.