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THE NEW WATCHTOWERS: HOW SURVEILLANCE TOWERS AND DRONES BECAME CENTRAL TO MODERN BORDER CONTROL
Along the Arizona–Mexico border, a 160-foot steel structure Autonomous Surveillance Tower (AST) 217 stands as part of a network of 472 fixed towers...
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...
UNSC DEBATES ON AFRICA: KEY RESOLUTIONS IN FOCUS
As the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meets amid global instability, Africa’s complex security crises have dominated deliberations, reaffirming the continent’s centrality to...
AFRICAN UNION SECURITY SUMMIT CONCLUDES WITH BOLD PLEDGES ON PEACE, REFORM, AND GLOBAL EQUITY
The 38th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Assembly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia closed on February 16, 2025, with far reaching decisions...
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...
