Institute for Security Studies
High Seas Treaty: Africa's role in saving the world's blue lungs
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 6th December 2023 The High Seas Treaty – officially known as the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Treaty – must be signed and ratified by 20 September 2025.... →
Are ZANU-PF’s high-risk strategies paying off?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 6th December 2023 As Zimbabwe moves from its discredited August harmonised elections, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) government wants... →
Pilot Zambian debt relief collapses
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 1st December 2023 Zambia’s imploding deals for debt relief from its many creditors have plunged the country’s fragile economic recovery into uncertainty. It also... →
Nigeria’s foreign minister has his work cut out
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 30th November 2023 Nigeria’s new Minister of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar is leading the country’s foreign relations in the face of significant... →
Protecting South Africa’s precious succulents from illegal traders
29th November 2023 As two collectors walk down the South Korean nursery’s humid aisles, they spot a magnificent specimen. Having collected South African succulents... →
Tackling several forms of violence together delivers results
29th November 2023 Levels of interpersonal violence remain pervasive and unyielding in South Africa. While a small number of the more extreme cases make headline... →
Tackling several forms of violence together delivers results
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 28th November 2023 Levels of interpersonal violence remain pervasive and unyielding in South Africa. While a small number of the more extreme cases make headline... →
Europe’s migration deals in the Sahel must be revised
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 27th November 2023 This year, a complex mix of insecurity, poverty and misgovernance has seen instability soar in the Sahel. Among the immediate effects is a rise in... →
Can revised AU policy give youth an active peacebuilding role?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 24th November 2023 Despite the African Union’s (AU) various youth inclusion initiatives, practical and meaningful youth participation in peace and security remains a... →
The Loss and Damage Fund must deliver at COP28
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 24th November 2023 One of the most celebrated outcomes of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheik was the agreement to establish a... →
