The upcoming 2020 presidential election in the Central African Republic (CAR) has the potential to derail the implementation of the 2019 Khartoum Peace Agreement and bring about a return to […]
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Since his coming to power in January 2019, restoring peace and security, particularly in the conflict-ridden Eastern provinces, has been one of President Félix Tshisekedi’s main promises. While not clearly […]
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In this commentary, Egmont senior researcher and affiliated senior researcher with the Leuven Institute of Criminology (University of Leuven) Valérie Arnould examines the human rights challenges the Covid-19 crisis poses […]
African governments have been faster than most of their European counterparts in imposing measures to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak despite dealing with numerous other challenges. However, context matters, and […]
Burundi’s forthcoming elections mark the next stage in the implementation of the Constitution of 7 June 2018. Four key institutional innovations, situated mostly at the level of the executive branch, […]
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The Corona pandemic is changing the way we live and function as a society for at least the coming weeks or months. While it is a virus that does not […]
By Staffan de Mistura, Former Under-Secretary-General, UN Special Envoy for Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon He will share with us his experience as special UN envoy in his successive peace missions […]
Training for diplomats from Angola, Ivory Coast, Guinea and Rwanda.
Africa Lunch Meeting with Dr. Sarah von Billerbeck, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading. Most peacebuilding missions take place in authoritarian contexts and seek to […]
Africa Lunch Meeting with Nic Cheeseman, Professor of Democracy at the University of Birmingham and the author of How to Rig an Election (Yale University Press). Contrary to what is […]