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West Africa’s regional bloc, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said on Thursday it will deploy troops to Guinea-Bissau to help stabilise the country following a failed coup early this week. The 15-nation regional bloc, which made the decision following a summit in Ghana’s capital Accra on Thursday, did not give details on …

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By DENG MACHOL As South Sudan struggles for peace, it’s still cleaning up the deadly threat posed by thousands of land mines from previous conflict decades ago. Cattle herders. Charcoal collectors. Children. All have been victims of long-forgotten mines that continue to make South Sudan one of the world’s most dangerous countries for unexploded ordnance. …

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HumAngle examines the spate of military coups in Africa and how the developments pose severe threats to democracy. By Adejumo Kabir The recent power grabs by the military in African countries may not be unconnected with bad governance perpetrated by heads of civilian governments in the affected countries, making the citizens conflicted between brutal military …

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While much has been done to address the P/CVE challenges over the past decade, we continue to see a host of new trends and developing challenges. The RAN Plenary explored three of these, namely the changing Islamist extremism, the growing violent right wing problem and the impact of COVID-19 on the P/CVE environment, namely the …

[EU] P/CVE in 2021 – New developments Read More »

The Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU), at its 1061st meeting, held on 27 January 2022, convened an Open Session under the theme, ‘’Promoting Constitutionalism, Democracy and Inclusive Governance to Strengthen Peace, Security and Stability in Africa’’ and adopted the following decision: Read more here

By Nathaniel Bivan The division along religious lines in Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria, became significant in the early 1990s as a result of the Zangon Kataf crisis, and then deepened after the sharia conflict in 2000 and the Miss World riot in 2002. But today, many residents miss the way life was in the state’s capital …

[Human Angle] The Divided City (1): Kaduna Residents Reminisce Lost Relationships Read More »

Paul-Henri Damiba, leader of the January 24 coup in Burkina Faso, has been named the new head of state of the West African country for a transitional period, Aljazeera reports. The military government also said it has restored the constitution, a week after taking power. The move came shortly after the African Union (AU) suspended …

[Premium Times] Burkina Faso: Military names coup leader as president Read More »