Apart from existing conflicts in places such as Sudan and Somalia, in 2012 Africa witnessed the eruption of major armed conflicts involving rebel groups and a rise in emerging threats to security particularly terrorism and other forms of transnational threats. In providing an analytical review of these developments and their implications for the peace and security ...

Since the demise of apartheid and the inauguration of democratic South Africa in 1994, the independence of South Sudan on 9 July 2011 is perhaps the only similar event on the continent that marked the triumph of freedom over oppression. Coming as it did against major obstacles, it reflects significant success of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement. This is parti...

The popular uprisings and ensuing political developments in North Africa entail serious implications for Africa and its emerging peace and security regime, otherwise known as the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA). Notably, they triggered questions on the adequacy of the normative and policy frameworks of the APSA to provide clear guidelines on how the ...

The popular uprisings and ensuing political developments in North Africa entail serious implications for Africa and its emerging peace and security regime, otherwise known as the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA). Notably, they triggered questions on the adequacy of the normative and policy frameworks of the APSA to provide clear guidelines on how the ...

The popular uprisings in North Africa will go down to history books as events of huge historical importance. To the surprise of the world, they brought down long-established authoritarian regimes in Tunisia and Egypt and triggered an armed rebellion and a UN sanctioned military campaign against Libya. The speed with which the presidents of Tunisia and Egypt bowed d...

In 1967 Ali Mazrui offered in his seminal work, Towards a Pax Africana, the earliest analysis on the need for Africans to assume responsibility for the maintenance of peace and security on the continent. Arguably, the most comprehensive effort towards achieving this ideal was made with the establishment of the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) in the c...