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RETHINKING HUMAN SECURITY IN AFRICA’S CHANGING DIPLOMATIC LANDSCAPE
Africa’s diplomatic and security thinking is undergoing a quiet but significant shift. By December 2025, escalating conflicts, climate stress, and global geopolitical competition...
INDUSTRY – DEFENCE PROCUREMENT SCANDALS IN AFRICA: LESSONS LEARNED
Defence procurement scandals have left a deep mark on Africa’s security landscape. Over the past three decades, flawed and corrupt arms deals have...
AFRICA’S ROBOTICS REVOLUTION ON THE BATTLEFIELD
Across Africa’s conflict zones from the Sahel’s desert plains to the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo a quiet technological shift is...
SYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGY – THE CASE FOR SMART BORDERS IN AFRICA
On the continent of Africa, vast and varied landscape, borders often act as both gateways to opportunity and barriers to progress. As countries...
ONLINE WAR COLLEGES: CAN AFRICA BENEFIT FROM DIGITAL LEARNING?
Africa’s militaries face a pressing paradox: they are among the most active in the world deployed in over 35 countries against insurgencies, terrorists,...
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...
AFRICA’S BLUE ECONOMY: UNLOCKING A WAVE OF SUSTAINABLE GROWTH
Africa’s blue economy represents one of the continent’s most promising frontiers for sustainable growth, encompassing activities such as fisheries, aquaculture, marine tourism, renewable...
AI AND AFRICA’S MILITARY INTELLIGENCE: PROMISE AND PERIL IN A TRANSFORMING SECURITY LANDSCAPE
Africa’s military landscape is entering a new chapter, shaped by the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI). Once seen as futuristic, AI tools...
STATE VS. NON-STATE CYBER ACTORS IN AFRICA
In July 2023, Kenya’s eCitizen platform went dark bringing public services across the country to a grinding halt, it wasn’t just a...
