Category: African Union

• PRISM Africa Issue Released

  February 11, 2015

  African Union, AFRICOM, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, Nigeria, Security Cooperation

  My former boss, who was cool enough to give me the long leash required to do the TSCTP Study when I was at the Center for Complex Operations, just released PRISM Volume 5, Number 2. This issue is the journal’s first African security-focused one, and includes the following articles: The Tswalu Dialog by Michael Miklaucic On the State of Peace Read.

• Meeting the Demand for African-led, Internationally Supported Peace Interventions

  January 7, 2014

  Africa Standby Force, African Union, Central African Republic, ECOWAS, Mali, Peacekeeping Operations, Somalia

  The Africa Growth Initiative at Brookings has continued its tradition of asking its experts and colleagues to identify what they consider to be the key issues for Africa in the coming year in “Foresight Africa: Top Priorities for the Continent in 2014.” The format of the report is as follows (and includes a contribution from yours truly): Pushing the Employment Read.

• Why has the international response to CAR taken so long?

  November 29, 2013

  African Union, Central African Republic, ECCAS, United Nations

  Stability is not a term one would use to describe the Central African Republic – particularly in light of the recent conflict which has engulfed the country. Last December, the Séléka rebel coalition challenged then-President François Bozizé’s grasp on power and eventually ousted him in March 2013. At first, the international response to the humanitarian and human rights Read.

• Rumor has it Nigerian troops leaving Mali, MINUSMA

  July 18, 2013

  African Union, ECOWAS, Mali, Nigeria

  Yesterday, Nigeria’s The Guardian newspaper reported that President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered the withdrawal of Nigerian troops currently deployed to Mali. Nigerian troops initially entered Mali in January 2013 as part of the African-led International Support Mission to Mali (AFISMA), and had come under the command of the UN’s Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali Read.

• Playing chicken with the UN, Uganda threatens to withdraw from peacekeeping operations

  November 2, 2012

  African Union, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Uganda, United Nations

  You could argue that the President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, seeks to replace Muammar Qadhafi as the alpha male of Africa and Meles Zenawi as the pan-African mediator. But those aspirations may have to be put on hold. In the UN Group of Experts (UN GoE) report that was leaked last month, Uganda and Rwanda Read.

• With Al-Shabaab on the Run, Kenya Moves on Kismaayo

  September 5, 2012

  African Union, Kenya, Somalia

  (Originally published on RUSI.org on September 5, 2012) In October 2011, the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) invaded southern Somalia with the stated purpose of dismantling Al-Shabaab and seizing the port city of Kismaayo, from which the Islamist militant organisation earns the majority of its revenues. After an initially swift invasion, Kenyan forces languished in southern Read.

• Key questions for African-initiated intervention force for eastern DRC

  August 9, 2012

  African Union, Angola, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, ECOWAS, Kenya, MONUSCO, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, SADC, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, United Nations, Zambia, Zimbabwe

  On August 7th and 8th, International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) heads of state met to discuss the deployment of an international force to fight the M23 rebel movement that has been active in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu region since April of this year. While they did not end Read.