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African Security

IISS work on African security centres on the institute's Armed Conflict Database and its Oppenheimer Lecture series. The former monitors a dozen ongoing conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa, with weekly updates. The latter invites eminent Africans - such as Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia - to talk at IISS. Other IISS publications and events also often discuss African security. 

A moment of opportunity in Somalia?

Dr Abdiweli Mohamed Ali. Photo AU/UN

It's not easy governing 'the world's most failed state', but Somali Prime Minister Dr Abdiweli Mohamed Ali believes the authorities can build on recent successes.

 

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Africa and the Arab Spring

Nana Akufo-Addo,  the 2012 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Ghana

What are the implications for Africa of 2011's Arab uprisings, Ghanaian presidential candidate Nana Akufo-Addo asks in the 2012 Oppenheimer Lecture.

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