African Union Reform in the Face of Military Coups in Africa
Since the adoption of its Constitutive Act in July of 2000, the African Union (AU) has made the rejection of military coups one of...
The Military Agreement of April 2022 Between Cameroon and Russia: What is the Impact...
On April 12, 2022, Cameroon and Russia signed a military cooperation agreement for five years. This agreement is signed in the context of Russia’s...
Mali: Between the Withdrawal of French Forces and Russian Requests
Since the May 24, 2021, attack by Colonel Assimi Goïta against the first transitional president Bah N'Daou and his Prime Minister Moctar Ouane, the...
Effectiveness of “African Solutions to African Problems” in Silencing the Guns in Africa
The African continent has been at the crossroads of multiple and intricate challenges since independence. Some of these challenges include matters of the nascent...
Scorched Earth Policy in the Anglophone Conflict in Cameroon: A Crime Against Humanity
Conflict is inevitable and armed conflict is optional. When the option of armed conflict (war) to settle disputes is preferred, the repercussions are enormous,...
The Accra Initiative and the Fight Against Terrorism In West Africa
The security crisis in the Sahel doesn’t go unnoticed for the countries of the Gulf of Guinea. Indeed, the jihadist threat is no longer...
Implications of Armed Conflict on Healthcare Interventions in Cameroon
Even though conflict is inevitable, armed conflict is very optional. It is essential to avoid or prevent them because the consequences of armed conflicts...
Emerging from Military Coups in Africa: The Political Situation in Sudan
Introduction
The resurgence of military coups on the African continent and the new engineering of the 'coup d'état to the transition,' the 'double coup d'état'...
Are Sanctions an Effective Remedy for Guinea’s Recent Coup?
The military coup in Guinea stands in stark contrast to the AU charter, and while ECOWAS and the AU have refrained from imposing sanctions, there is the legal and moral justification for such an outcome.
Toward A Democratic Exception in the Context of Terrorism
Introduction
The democratization process in sub-Saharan Africa has been plagued by multifaceted and complex challenges since the 1990s. Indeed, there is a great diversity of...
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No Factories, No Trade: CEMAC Faces the Challenge of Structural Transformation
Highlights
No CEMAC member State accounts for more than 10% of exports to the continent.
The free movement of people, planned since 1999, has...
Burkina Faso’s New Study Abroad Decree: When Education Becomes a Political Privilege
By Enowbachem Agbortanyi
A Policy Framed as National Development
Burkina Faso's latest decree requiring every student wishing to study abroad to obtain government authorization marks more...
From the WTO MC14 to Action: Building Africa’s Productive Capacity through Trade, Digitalisation and...
Africa cannot rely on trade liberalization alone to achieve economic transformation; instead, it must pair AfCFTA integration with deliberate industrial, agricultural, and digital capacity-building...
Leveraging WTO MC14 Investment Facilitation for Development to Accelerate Structural Transformation in Cameroon
Investment inflows will generate the expected level of development impact in Cameroon if the country addresses persistent challenges like regulatory inefficiencies, institutional fragmentation, and...
Rethinking Commercial Leadership in Central Africa: Addressing the Challenges of Informality, Inequality, and Digital...
Informality, inequality, weak digital infrastructure, and limited productive financing continue to marginalize ECCAS economies, while calling for coordinated reforms to achieve inclusive and transformative...
From Market Expansion to Value Addition: Repositioning CEMAC’s Trade Strategy for Structural Transformation
Repositioning CEMAC’s trade strategy requires a decisive shift from commodity-based market participation toward value-driven production systems, where trade, industrial policy, and regional integration are...