Policy briefs

China: Developing Country and World Trade Giant

China remains a developing country but is also a dominant force in world trade. This duality is the source of acute tensions in trade relations, and...

Policy options for food systems transformation in Africa - from the perspective of African universities and think tanks

Within the context of the United Nations Food Systems Summit taking place in September 2021, this brief discusses key drivers of food systems in...

Cabo Delgado: ‘Al Shabaab/ISIS’ and the Crisis in Southern Africa

This paper argues that the crisis in Cabo Delgado, while cast in terms of the incendiary rhetoric of armed religious extremism, in actual fact has...

Cabo Delgado : « Al Shabab/État islamique » et la crise en Afrique australe

Cet article soutient que la crise de Cabo Delgado, bien que présentée sous l'angle de la rhétorique incendiaire de l'extrémisme religieux...

Province de Cabo Delgado au Mozambique : points communs et différences avec les autres terres du "djihadisme autoproclamé" en Afrique

Ce briefing se propose d'expliquer les spécificités du cas du nord-Mozambique où sévit, depuis maintenant plus de trois ans, un mouvement...

Mozambique's Cabo Delgado Province: Commonalities and discrepancies with other African lands of "self-proclaimed jihad"

This paper sets out to explore the specifics of Northern Mozambique, where a self-proclaimed Islamist movement has been active over the past three...

Pandemic Preparedness, Morocco, and Africa

Preparedness for the next pandemic is an essential investment. To get it right, countries must stay flexible and reinforce their international health...

Préparation à une éventuelle pandémie, Maroc et Afrique

La préparation à la prochaine pandémie est un investissement incontournable. Pour faire les bons choix, les pays doivent rester flexibles et...

Venezuela Agriculture and Food: Resilience or Total Collapse of Food Security Under Repeated Crises?

Venezuela has hurtled from crisis to crisis since the 1980s oil glut. Time and again, successive governments, whether Democratic or Bolivarian...

Tillabéri Region, Niger: Concerning Cycle of Atrocities

Tillabéri region of Niger is witnessing unprecedented level of ethnic-based violence. The January 2 massacre caught the national and international...

Les armes non-létales : vers la guerre propre ?

Depuis les années 1960s, la doctrine stratégique assiste à la montée en puissance progressive des armes dites « non-létales », d’abord comme concept...

Non-Lethal Weapons: Towards Clean War?

Starting in the nineteen sixties, strategic doctrine gradually saw the advent of so-called "non-lethal" weapons, first as a concept, then...