Conflict Trends 2024/2
This edition of ACCORD’s Conflict Trends begins with an article by Abraham Ename Minko about one of the emerging challenges in Africa, which is cyber security. This article discusses how cyber conflicts such as cyber espionage and surveillance can affect various aspects of life in Africa. As discussed in the article, cyber activity, such as […]
Emerging cyber conflicts and the role of digital diplomacy in Africa: Trends and strategies
In recent years, Africa has witnessed several high-profile cyber incidents highlighting digital diplomacy’s growing importance.
The role of political compromise in South Africa’s Government of National Unity: Balancing competing interests for stability and peacebuilding
South Africa has now entered an era of multi- party governance across all three spheres of government.
Sexual violence as a weapon: The gendered impact of banditry in Nigeria’s Northwest
Armed banditry in Nigeria’s Northwest geopolitical zone is driving an unprecedented national humanitarian and security crisis
Scoping the operational dynamics of the MNJTF in the Lake Chad Basin: A regional security complex perspective
The new security realities have compelled regional collaboration for effective and results-based CT-COIN as a form of securitisation of the Lake Chad Region
Political transition and democratic challenges in central Sahel
The deteriorating economic and security situation in the central Sahel has provided a pretext for high-ranking military officers to overthrow the incumbent administrations
Eswatini’s June 2021 protests revisited: Understanding political violence in Eswatini
In Eswatini, what would ordinarily have been a case of police impunity tout court metamorphosed into a wider call for democratic reform in the country.