Islamic Extremists in Africa

2017 ◽  
pp. 93-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurice Dawson ◽  
Wale Adeboje
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Military Force ◽  
African Union ◽  
African Continent ◽  
East African ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Insight Into

Security is a growing concern on the African continent as the Regional Economic Communities (REC) move toward economic integration. Furthermore, these regions collectively make up the African Union (AU) which has an objective to promote peace, security, and stability on the African continent. In recent years, Africa has been plagued with political uprisings, civil wars, extremists, corrupt politicians, and the battle for natural resources. In particular, Kenya and Nigeria are facing Islamic extremists that threaten the foundation of multiple nations. In both countries, they are using military force to combat these threats. This chapter provides insight into these West and East African nations and their means to provide security assurances to their citizens.

Islamic Extremists in Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 1506-1517
Author(s):  
Maurice Dawson ◽  
Wale Adeboje
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Military Force ◽  
African Union ◽  
African Continent ◽  
East African ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Insight Into

Security is a growing concern on the African continent as the Regional Economic Communities (REC) move toward economic integration. Furthermore, these regions collectively make up the African Union (AU) which has an objective to promote peace, security, and stability on the African continent. In recent years, Africa has been plagued with political uprisings, civil wars, extremists, corrupt politicians, and the battle for natural resources. In particular, Kenya and Nigeria are facing Islamic extremists that threaten the foundation of multiple nations. In both countries, they are using military force to combat these threats. This chapter provides insight into these West and East African nations and their means to provide security assurances to their citizens.

Islamic Extremists in Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 615-625
Author(s):  
Maurice Dawson ◽  
Wale Adeboje
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Military Force ◽  
African Union ◽  
African Continent ◽  
East African ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Insight Into

Security is a growing concern on the African continent as the Regional Economic Communities (REC) move toward economic integration. Furthermore, these regions collectively make up the African Union (AU) which has an objective to promote peace, security, and stability on the African continent. In recent years, Africa has been plagued with political uprisings, civil wars, extremists, corrupt politicians, and the battle for natural resources. In particular, Kenya and Nigeria are facing Islamic extremists that threaten the foundation of multiple nations. In both countries, they are using military force to combat these threats. This chapter provides insight into these West and East African nations and their means to provide security assurances to their citizens.

Locus Standi of Individuals and Non-State Entities Before Regional Economic Integration Judicial Bodies in Africa

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Onoria
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
Regional Economic Integration ◽  
East African ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
East African Community ◽  
Locus Standi ◽  
Eastern And Southern Africa ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Right

Economic integration efforts in Africa have been ongoing since the 1960s. In spite of the fact that judicial bodies – in the form of Courts and Tribunals – have been provided as key institutions in integration treaties, they have largely not been active in application of the treaties or addressing disputes within the economic blocs until after 2000. This was partly a result of the failure in the timely establishment of the Courts and Tribunals and partly a result of the absence or limited role of individuals and non-State entities in the integration process (and, under certain treaties, of the right of access to the Courts and Tribunals). In the past decade, mainly through protocols to the treaties, the role of individuals and non-State entities in integration has been greatly enhanced, including the grant of locus standi before the Courts and Tribunals. The recent decisions of the Courts and Tribunals under the regional economic integration blocs, especially the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the East African Community (EAC), the Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), have addressed the role and locus standi of individuals and non-State entities that has significant implications for the future of economic integration processes in Africa.

East African Community: Demographics and Economic Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-51
Author(s):  
D. V. Kuzmin ◽  
D. V. Kuzmin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Regional Economic Integration ◽  
East African ◽  
Macroeconomic Dynamics ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
East African Community ◽  
Urgent Task ◽  
African Community ◽  
Sub Saharan

Regional economic integration in East Africa, as in sub-Saharan Africa as a whole, remains an urgent task for States. It also arouses the interest of researchers for its features. The basis of regional economic integration in the associations of Africa in the XXI century is a stable macroeconomic dynamics, since the author proceeds from the fact that in the conditions of economic recovery, integration processes in the region are intensified. At the same time, the author believes that the socioeconomic problems common to the countries of Africa or its individual regions can also serve as a basis for the activation of integration processes.

The International Criminal Court and the African Union

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gino Naldi ◽  
Konstantinos D Magliveras
Keyword(s):  
International Criminal Court ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
African Union ◽  
African Politics ◽  
African Continent ◽  
East African ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Local Justice ◽  
The Voice

This chapter examines the context of the Africa–ICC relationship, tracing the roots of the friction between the ICC, and by extension some of its European member states, and the African Union (AU), which has been the voice of those African nations disenchanted, if not outraged, by indictments and prosecutions against African leaders and politicians. Given that the ICC Prosecutor has focused exclusively on the African continent, there is widespread AU criticism that the pursuit of international criminal justice is solely concerned with African politics. The chapter demonstrates that the tension between the ICC and the AU has been exacerbated by the recent prosecution of cases involving Kenya, which became a major political issue in the East African nation. The chapter contends that the AU’s disenchantment with the ICC has led leaders in the continent to push various local justice alternatives under the banner of ‘African solutions to African problems’.

Is Discussion of the “United States of Africa” Premature? Analysis of ECOWAS and SADC Integration Efforts

2012 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-54
Author(s):  
Malebakeng Forere
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
The United States ◽  
African Union ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Normative Framework ◽  
Theoretical Premise

AbstractFor integration to succeed, the intending bloc of nations must begin with integration efforts that are based on gradual, continuous and concrete achievements, to create de facto solidarity among community members. This is the theoretical premise on which this article is based. This perspective is also drawn from the normative framework of both the Constitutive Act of the African Union (AU) and the Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community. According to its objectives, the AU aims to form a union government, to be preceded by successful economic integration through regional economic communities (RECs). While there are several RECs in Africa, this article examines those in west and southern Africa, being among the more developed. The article discusses whether the RECs have achieved their objectives to the extent that would warrant discussion of, and efforts towards, the imminent formation of the “United States of Africa”.

Dag Hammerskjöld Seminar on the Legal Aspects of Economic Integration

1970 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-135
Author(s):  
A. M. Akiwumi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Common Market ◽  
Eastern Africa ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
East African ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
East African Community ◽  
African Community ◽  
First Time

This seminar was intended for government servants, primarily from Eastern Africa, who wished to discuss some problems, concerning the establishment and functioning of institutions of regional economic co-operation, with which they were directly involved. The East African Community (E.A.C.) was a timely choice as the main subject for detailed study and discussion, having been established as recently as December 1967; it had for the first time introduced into existing co-operation the concept of a legally regulated common market as an integral part of the Community.

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