Border Security
COMMUNITY INTELLIGENCE AT BORDERS: SUCCESSES AND FAILURES
Border security increasingly relies on community intelligence the collection and use of information from residents, businesses, and local law enforcement near borders to...
REFUGEE MOVEMENTS AND BORDER FORCE DILEMMAS
In today’s world of conflict, climate change, and widening economic divides, refugee movements have reached historic levels and placed border security under immense...
BIOMETRIC BORDERS: AFRICA’S EXPERIMENTS IN SMART SECURITY
Africa is undergoing a quiet transition in border management. Across the continent, biometric technologies such as facial recognition, fingerprints, and iris scans are...
BORDER SECURITY AND MILITARISED WILDLIFE PROTECTION: AN EMERGING NEXUS
The Convergence of Conservation and Security In an era where transnational threats blur the lines between environmental conservation and national security, militarised wildlife...
Harmonising Border Policies in the African Continental Free Trade Era
When African leaders signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement in Kigali in 2018, they set in motion the most ambitious...
Refugee Movements and Security Dilemmas for Border Forces
Refugee flows have long tested the resilience of African border forces. From the Horn of Africa to the Sahel and the Great Lakes...
Militarised Wildlife Protection: Linking Border Security with Conservation
Across Africa’s vast and porous frontiers, the boundaries between conservation and national security are becoming increasingly blurred. From the Sahel to Southern Africa,...
Biometric Borders: Evaluating National Rollouts Across Africa
Africa’s border management systems have travelled a long road — from the colonial-era reliance on paper documents and manual checks to the gradual...
The ECOWAS Border Strategy: Lessons for Continental Border Governance
As African regional blocs seek to address the security challenges posed by porous frontiers, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has...
Technology at the Edge: How Surveillance and Biometrics Are Transforming Border Control
African states are turning to cutting-edge surveillance tools and biometric systems to manage the growing complexity of border control. From facial recognition and...
