Overlapping territorial claims continue to fuel conflict in Abyei, which is claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan.
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Peacebuilding – Analyses
Conflicts over the Alsace-Lorraine region and Northern Ireland offer examples of how territory is often at the center of a conflict − and what is necessary to pave the path to peace.
Rwandan forces have been able to keep civilian casualties low in Cabo Delgado despite carrying out a counterterrorism operation.
After more than 30 years of federalism, ethnic conflict in Ethiopia hasn’t been resolved – but neither has the country disintegrated.
South Africa is a large peninsula on the strategic Cape sea route. Some 90% of its trade flows through its harbours. The navy defends the country’s sovereignty and national interests.
The success of the Somali case illustrates what a high degree of shared interests among international actors can achieve.
An AI model shows that building collapses in Lagos are location specific, and soil testing can help to check them.
Without refugee status people aren’t able to receive valuable support, like the right to live and work in a country.
The transfer of township rental houses to inhabitants did not necessarily give families greater security. “Family houses” were frequently acquired by individuals.
Land disputes arise when the fundamental principles of customary law are breached. The breach can be at the hands of the state or its representatives.
Suicide in Ghana is regarded as taboo for most families.
The African Union’s membership in the G20 is an important complement to existing strategic partnerships.
Financing is available to farmers. What’s in contention is whether what’s available helps farmers enter the industry, expand and grow.
Local communities need to be warned more clearly and effectively if there is a threat of a storm surge and of coastal flooding.
Whistleblowers should be entitled to financial support. But that has potential costs as well as benefits.
The founding story of Museveni’s government remains persuasive for a great many people 37 years later.
Dams are usually built to withstand heavy rainfall or drought.
Awarding punitive costs against legal practitioners would make them think twice about facilitating delaying tactics and malicious lawsuits.
Rongai’s rapid development has happened without services keeping pace, and the rivers have paid the price.
Efforts have been made to change the patterns of inequality in South Africa. But not enough has been done. Race-based inequality is still a real problem.
Kenya’s confidence crisis is a problem because people need to believe the judiciary is acting independently if it is to play its role.
Climate change is putting pressure on Ethiopia’s largest city, Addis Ababa, and exposing people to disease and natural disasters.
Trans-border collaboration is required to recover protected areas that transverse Niger, Burkina Faso and Benin Republic from armed groups.
Current reforms in Tanzania lack popular participation and legal safeguards.
A rapid exit of AU troops from Somalia could hand a battlefield and propaganda advantage to al-Shabaab.