Wild Basil Podcast Episode 2 - Milagre Nuvunga, The Voice of the Forest

Publisher:

allAfrica.com

Publication Date:

18 October 2024

AllAfrica has launched an eight-part podcast series, Wild Basil, featuring remarkable women who contributed to peace and development through their innovative work on biodiversity and conservation and addresses the competition for scarce resources in Southern Africa, including Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Angola, Botswana, and South Africa. Above all, their work contributes to conflict prevention and resolution in their communities and their countries.

[AllAfrica's elevation of the

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Wild Basil Podcast Episode 1 - Anabela Rodrigues, The Wild Dancer

Publisher:

allAfrica.com

Publication Date:

2 October 2024

AllAfrica has launched an eight-part podcast series, Wild Basil, featuring remarkable women who contributed to peace and development through their innovative work on biodiversity and conservation and addresses the competition for scarce resources in Southern African, including Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Angola, Botswana and South Africa. Above all, their work contributes to conflict prevention and resolution in their communities and their countries. [AllAfrica's elevation of the voices of

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Wild Basil Podcast Intro - Stories of Extraordinary Women Hidden From History

Publisher:

allAfrica.com

Publication Date:

30 September 2024

AllAfrica has launched an eight-part podcast series, Wild Basil, featuring remarkable women who contributed to peace and development through their innovative work on biodiversity and conservation and addresses the competition for scarce resources in Southern African, including Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Angola, Botswana and South Africa. Above all, their work contributes to conflict prevention and resolution in their communities and their countries. [AllAfrica's elevation of the voices of

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Entrenched Repression: Systematic Curtailment of the Democratic and Civic Space in South Sudan

Author:

United Nations Human Rights

Publisher:

United Nations Human Rights

Publication Date:

18 October 2023

As South Sudan's transition period draws towards its end, with a new constitution and national elections planned to take place by December 2024, the question of democratic and civic space has assumed heightened importance. Based on the Commission's independent investigations, this paper examines the current situation of South Sudanese media and civil society actors. The repressive treatment of media and civil society are key indicators of prospects for accountable governance and a democratic

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PODCAST - Peacebuilding Setbacks in the Sahel - What Now After Niger Coup, Growing Military Junta Rule?

Publisher:

allAfrica.com

Publication Date:

13 October 2023

AllAfrica's Juanita Williams is joined by veteran Niger journalist Gare Amadou, and peacebuilding researchers Professor Ibrahim Bangura and Dr Festus Kofi Aubyn to provide insights in to what the situation in the Sahel is, with a special focus on Niger in light of the August coup and subsequent military rule. (Special thanks to Nontobeko Mlambo for co-producing this episode)

AllAfrica's reporting on peacebuilding is

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Ethiopia Watch - Civil Society Monitor of Cessation of Hostilities Agreement

Publisher:

Ethiopia Watch

Publication Date:

10 July 2023

The 26-page report is being released in the lead-up to the African Union summit, which will convene in Nairobi from 13 to 16 July.

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2022 Ibrahim Index of African Governance

Publisher:

Mo Ibrahim Foundation

Publication Date:

27 January 2023

The report by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation on African governance rates the continent as "less safe, secure and democratic" than it was a decade ago. Between 2019 and 2021, improvements in governance across Africa "have flatlined", the Foundation says - even before accounting for the continuing challenges of 2022. Climate-fueled droughts and floods, a growing burden of disease, and grain shortages due to the Ukraine war have contributed to spreading insecurity, and the number of governments Go to resource »

25 Years of Children and Armed Conflict: Taking Action to Protect Children in War

Author:

Unicef

Publisher:

United Nations Children's Fund

Publication Date:

29 June 2022

The report 25 Years of Children and Armed Conflict: Taking Action to Protect Children in War presents key steps that the international community has taken to protect children in situations of armed conflict, with a specific focus on the Security Council-mandated Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism (MRM) to document grave violations against children and to foster accountability by identifying perpetrators.

Based on 16 years of data from the Secretary-General's Annual Report on

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Statement of the African Union on the Reported ill Treatment of Africans Trying to Leave Ukraine

Author:

African Union

Publisher:

African Union

Publication Date:

28 February 2022

The current Chair of the African Union and President of the Republic of Senegal, H.E. Macky Sall, and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, are following closely the developments in Ukraine and are particularly disturbed by reports that African citizens on the Ukrainian side of the border are being refused the right to cross the border to safety.

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Al-Shabab's Arsenal - From Taxes to Terror

Author:

Hiraal Institute

Publisher:

Hiraal Institute

Publication Date:

22 February 2022

Somalia's al-Shabab militant group has an annual budget of U.S.$24 million to spend on purchasing weapons, according to a new report by a Mogadishu-based research group, the Hiraal Institute. The report said the group uses various methods to procure weapons, including direct purchases from local black markets, and from arms traders contracted to buy and deliver weapons from abroad, mainly Yemen.

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