Institute for Security Studies
Is Côte d’Ivoire becoming a wildlife trafficking hotspot?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 12th April 2018 Since 2016, Côte d’Ivoire has recorded at least five major wildlife-trafficking events involving seizures and arrests. The most recent was in... →
Democracy and economics in Africa: the circle of growth
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 11th April 2018 At low levels of economic development, democracy has little if any impact on growth. However as countries’ average incomes rise, a positive... →
Africa must steer the rules of the international financial sector
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 10th April 2018 The release of the Paradise Papers last year and the Panama Papers in 2016 revealed the role tax havens play in facilitating tax avoidance, tax... →
Climate change is feeding armed conflict in Somalia
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 9th April 2018 The blast that killed over 350 people and the double car bombing in Mogadishu last October have frustrated Somalia’s efforts to build stability.... →
An attack on Nigeria’s schoolgirls is an attack on education
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 5th April 2018 On 19 February 2018, militants arrived in trucks at the Government Girls Science and Technology College in Dapchi, Nigeria, wielding guns and... →
South Africa and Nigeria are crucial for continental initiatives
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 4th April 2018 The impressive turnout at the African Union’s Extraordinary Summit on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on 21 March showed the... →
Africa must maximise the value of donor aid
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 3rd April 2018 There has been a steady decline in the extent to which countries in sub-Saharan Africa are dependent on aid, although aid remains very important... →
Will Africa’s huge new trade deal really transform the continent?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 29th March 2018 Africa took a giant step forward, at least symbolically, on 21 March when 44 of the African Union’s (AU) 55 member states signed the African... →
MDC-T does succession the ZANU-PF way
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 28th March 2018 Morgan Tsvangirai inspired many in the fight for democracy in Zimbabwe. Sadly, the most immediate legacy of the late Movement for Democratic... →
Mali’s problems are much bigger than July’s presidential election
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 26th March 2018 Four months before Mali’s 29 July presidential election takes place, the country is still mired by governance and security problems. Political,... →
