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Why General C.G. Musa Is the Right Defence Minister for Nigeria—Right Now
President Bola Tinubu’s nomination of General Christopher Gwabin Musa (rtd.) as Minister of Defence comes at a moment when the nation urgently requires...
DIPLOMACY, PEACE & CIVIL SECURITY – CROSS-BORDER PEACE PACTS IN EAST AFRICA: SUCCESS OR FAILURE?
From the windswept Karamoja hills to the fishing villages of Lake Victoria, East Africa has spent the last fifteen years signing an alphabet...
ECOWAS MILITARY INTERVENTION IN NIGER: A TURNING POINT?
The coup d’état in Niger on July 26, 2023, marked a seismic rupture in West Africa’s fragile stability. The Presidential Guard’s detention of...
CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS IN FRAGILE STATES
Fragile states marked by weak governance, economic instability, and persistent unrest face a recurring challenge: how to manage relations between civilian institutions and...
WHY AFRICA NEEDS A UNIFIED DEFENCE POLICY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
In an era of escalating geopolitical tensions, resource conflicts, and transnational threats like terrorism and climate-induced instability, Africa stands at a critical juncture....
Peace Corridors in Conflict Zones: Humanitarian Highways or Fragile Lifelines?
On a searing August afternoon in 2022, a convoy of white-painted trucks bearing the red crescent snaked through Mali’s Mopti region. A Malian...
Transitional Justice and the Armed Forces: Navigating Past Atrocities
On an autumn morning in October 1997, inside Cape Town’s Good Hope Centre, television cameras zoomed in on a man in olive green...
Disarmament Campaigns: Civilian Buy-In or Security Risk?
The open-air sports stadium in Monrovia was never meant for this. In September 2003, just weeks after Liberia’s warring factions signed the Accra...
Military Mediation: When Generals Step into Diplomatic Roles
Kenya’s retired Lieutenant General Lazaro Sumbeiywo still remembers the winter fog curling over Naivasha in January 2005 when he ushered Sudan’s warring factions...
General Musa Leads Civil-Military Reset in Nigeria
Under General Musa’s Watch, Nigeria’s Military Reimagines Civil-Military Relations at Landmark Conference In a decisive and visionary shift, Nigeria’s Chief of Defence...
