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Africa Center for Strategic Studies

The Africa Center is the pre-eminent Department of Defense institution for strategic security studies, research, and outreach in Africa. The Africa Center engages African partner states and institutions through rigorous academic and outreach programs that build strategic capacity and foster long-term, collaborative relationships.
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Resources:

• November 04, 2024 The Regional Security Imperative to Protect the Congo Basin
  By: Denis Mahonghol
• July 22, 2024 Recalibrating Coastal West Africa’s Response to Violent Extremism
  By: Daniel Eizenga, Amandine Gnanguênon
• September 11, 2023 Oversight and Accountability to Improve Security Sector Governance in Africa
  By: Dan Kuwali
• July 25, 2022 Strengthening Sahelian Counterinsurgency Strategy
  By: Michael Shurkin
• November 09, 2021 Collaborative Policing and Negotiating Urban Order in Abidjan
  By: Maxime Ricard, Kouame Felix Grodji
• July 12, 2021 The Growing Complexity of Farmer-Herder Conflict in West and Central Africa
  By: Leif Brottem
• December 01, 2020 The Puzzle of JNIM and Militant Islamist Groups in the Sahel
  By: Daniel Eizenga, Wendy Williams
• May 18, 2020 Geostrategic Dimensions of Libya’s Civil War
  By: Tarek Megerisi
• January 18, 2020 Threat from African Militant Islamist Groups Expanding, Diversifying
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• December 18, 2019 Timeline of South Sudan Peace Agreements and Violence
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• December 18, 2019 African Migrant Flows Reshaping Security Challenges in Africa
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• December 02, 2019 Responding to the Rise in Violent Extremism in the Sahel
  By: Pauline Le Roux
• October 17, 2019 Shifting Borders: Africa’s Displacement Crisis and Its Security Implications
  By: Wendy Williams
• October 17, 2019 Africa’s Unresolved Conflicts a Key Driver of Food Insecurity
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• July 27, 2019 Africa Lags in Protections against Human Trafficking
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• July 26, 2019 Myths about Human Trafficking in Africa
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• July 10, 2019 Record Number of Forcibly Displaced Africans Likely to Grow
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• July 09, 2019 Frontlines in Flux in Battle against African Militant Islamist Groups
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• May 29, 2019 Envisioning a Stable South Sudan
  By: Luka Biong Deng Kuol, Majak D'Agoôt, Remember Miamingi, Lauren Hutton, Phillip Kasaija Apuuli, Luol Deim Kuol, Godfrey Musila
• May 01, 2019 Assessing Attitudes of the Next Generation of African Security Sector Professionals
  By: Kwesi Aning, Joseph Siegle
• March 04, 2019 A Review of Major Regional Security Efforts in the Sahel
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• February 15, 2019 The Complex and Growing Threat of Militant Islamist Groups in the Sahel
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• February 15, 2019 The Complex and Growing Threat of Militant Islamist Groups in the Sahel
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• January 25, 2019 Progress and Setbacks in the Fight against African Militant Islamist Groups in 2018
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• October 29, 2018 Militant Islamist Group Activity in the Sahel Rises
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• August 01, 2018 Ituri Becomes Congo’s Latest Flashpoint
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• August 01, 2018 Lost Opportunity in Zimbabwe
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• July 01, 2018 Africa Lags in Protections against Human Trafficking
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• July 01, 2018 After Burundi’s Referendum, a Drive to Dismantle the Arusha Accords
  By: Paul Nantulya
• July 01, 2018 YALI Fellows Participate in Africa Center Security Simulation Exercise
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• July 01, 2018 Q&A: Somalia Charts Security Transition
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• June 01, 2018 From Urban Fragility to Urban Stability
  By: Stephen Commins
• June 01, 2018 Presidential Elections in Mali: A Step toward Stabilizing a Weak State
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• June 01, 2018 Militant Islamist Groups in Africa Show Resiliency over Past Decade
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• June 01, 2018 Reform and Renewal in Zimbabwe or More of the Same?
  By: Paul Nantulya
• June 01, 2018 World Cup Dreams Shape Africa’s National Narratives
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• April 27, 2018 African Militant Islamist Groups Again on the Rise
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• March 01, 2018 The Maghreb’s Fragile Edges
  By: Anouar Boukhars
• February 23, 2018 Term Limits for African Leaders Linked to Stability
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• January 29, 2018 Humanitarian Costs of South Sudan Conflict Continue to Escalate
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• December 15, 2017 Dynamics of African Economic Migration
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• November 17, 2017 Selected Effects of Climate Change on Africa
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• October 31, 2017 South Sudan Conflict Drives Massive Population Movement
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• October 18, 2017 Al Shabaab Remains Virulent as ISIS Shifts to Egypt
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• September 14, 2017 Constitutional Term Limits for African Leaders
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• August 15, 2017 Africa’s Population Displacement Reaches Record Levels in 2017
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• July 28, 2017 Conflict and Food Insecurity in South Sudan
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• July 20, 2017 Setbacks and Realignments: The Continuing Evolution of Militant Islamist Groups in Africa
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• July 01, 2017 Criminality in Africa’s Fishing Industry: A Threat to Human Security
  By: André Standing
• June 19, 2017 Burundi Refugee Flows Continue to Increase
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• April 26, 2017 Map of Africa’s Militant Islamist Groups
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• March 20, 2017 Conflict and Famine in South Sudan
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• March 20, 2017 ISIS’s Future in Africa after Iraq and Syria
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• March 14, 2017 Humanitarian Need and Displacement in South Sudan
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• March 13, 2017 Refugee Flows Show Burundi Crisis Worsening
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• February 17, 2017 Acute Food Insecurity and Conflict in Africa
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• November 16, 2016 Map of Africa’s Active Militant Islamist Groups
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• September 16, 2016 Population Displacement in Africa: Top 10 Countries of Origin
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• September 15, 2016 Overlapping Effects of Autocracy and Conflict in Africa
  By: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• August 01, 2016 Islamist Extremism in East Africa
  By: Abdisaid Ali
• June 21, 2016 Governance, Accountability, and Security in Nigeria
  By: Oluwakemi Okenyodo
• April 05, 2015 Combating Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea
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• February 01, 2015 Combating Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea
  By: Adeniyi Adejimi Osinowo
• November 05, 2014 Lessons from Burundi's Security Sector Reform Process
  By: Nicole Ball
• November 01, 2014 Lessons from Burundi’s Security Sector Reform Process
  By: Nicole Ball
• July 05, 2014 Advancing Military Professionalism in Africa
  By: Emile Ouédraogo
• May 31, 2014 Wildlife Poaching: Africa’s Surging Trafficking Threat
  By: Bradley Anderson, Johan Jooste
• May 05, 2014 Wildlife Poaching: Africa's Surging Trafficking Threat
  By: Bradley Anderson, Johan Jooste
• April 05, 2014 Creating Sustainable Peacekeeping Capability in Africa
  By: Daniel Hampton
• April 01, 2014 Creating Sustainable Peacekeeping Capability in Africa
  By: Daniel Hampton
• November 05, 2013 Africa's Information Revolution: Implications for Crime, Policing, and Citizen Security
  By: Steven Livingston
• August 05, 2013 Mitigating Radicalism in Northern Nigeria
  By: Michael Olufemi Sodipo
• August 01, 2013 Mitigating Radicalism in Northern Nigeria
  By: Michael Olufemi Sodipo
• July 05, 2013 Peace Operations in Africa: Lessons Learned Since 2000
  By: Paul D. Williams
• July 01, 2013 Peace Operations in Africa: Lessons Learned Since 2000
  By: Paul D. Williams
• June 05, 2013 Advancing Stability and Reconciliation in Guinea-Bissau: Lessons from Africa's First Narco-State
  By: Davin O'Regan, Peter Thompson
• January 01, 2013 The Lessons and Limits of DDR in Africa
  By: Prosper Nzekani Zena
• November 05, 2012 Islamic Militancy in Africa
  By: Terje Østebø
• August 05, 2012 Building Africa's Airlift Capacity: A Strategy for Enhancing Military Effectiveness
  By: Birame Diop, David M. Peyton, Gene McConville
• July 05, 2012 Unfinished Business: A Framework for Peace in the Great Lakes
  By: Rigobert Minani Bihuzo
• April 05, 2012 Boko Haram's Evolving Threat
  By: J. Peter Pham
• January 05, 2012 Africa's Militaries: A Missing Link in Democratic Transitions
  By: Mathurin C. Houngnikpo
• November 05, 2011 Africa and the Arab Spring: A New Era of Democratic Expectations
  By:
• November 05, 2011 Alternative Dispute Resolution in Africa: Preventing Conflict and Enhancing Stability
  By: Ernest Uwazie
• November 05, 2011 Africa and the Arab Spring: A New Era of Democratic Expectations
  By:
• September 05, 2011 Sifting Through the Layers of Insecurity in the Sahel: The Case of Mauritania
  By: Cédric Jourde
• July 05, 2011 Stress-Testing South Africa: The Tenuous Foundations of One of Africa's Stable States
  By: Assis Malaquias
• July 05, 2011 Nigeria's Pernicious Drivers of Ethno-Religious Conflict
  By: Chris Kwaja
• June 05, 2011 Optimizing Africa's Security Force Structures
  By: Helmoed Heitman
• April 05, 2011 Urban Fragility and Security in Africa
  By: Stephen Commins
• March 05, 2011 West Africa's Growing Terrorist Threat: Confronting AQIM's Sahelian Strategy
  By: Modibo Goïta
• March 05, 2011 Africa's Evolving Infosystems: A Pathway to Security and Stability
  By: Steven Livingston
• February 05, 2011 Investing in Science and Technology to Meet Africa's Maritime Security Challenges
  By: Augustus Vogel
• January 05, 2011 Playing Ostrich: Lessons Learned from South Africa's Response to Terrorism
  By: Hussein Solomon
• November 05, 2010 Democracy and the Chain of Command: A New Governance of Africa's Security Sector
  By: Dominique Djindjéré
• September 05, 2010 Nonstate Policing: Expanding the Scope for Tackling Africa's Urban Violence
  By: Bruce Baker
• September 05, 2010 Enhancing Civilian Protection in Peace Operations: Insights from Africa
  By: Paul D. Williams
• August 05, 2010 Africa's Fragile States: Empowering Extremists, Exporting Terrorism
  By: Zachary Devlin-Foltz
• July 05, 2010 Cocaine and Instability in Africa: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean
  By: Davin O'Regan
• April 05, 2010 Misinterpreting Ethnic Conflicts in Africa
  By: Clement Mweyang Aapengnuo
• March 05, 2010 Lessons Learned from Peace Operations in Africa
  By: Paul D. Williams
• December 05, 2009 Navies versus Coast Guards: Defining the Roles of African Maritime Security Forces
  By: Augustus Vogel
• June 05, 2009 U.S. Security Engagement in Africa
  By: William M. Bellamy