Fertiliser disruption exposes a blind spot that farm-level policy has long ignored – but Africa holds the resources to fix it ...

Silencing the internet during unrest buys governments time, but corrodes the trust and economic foundations that stability ...

Pope Leo XIVth’s 10-day African tour, completed this week, was overshadowed by a running spat with US President Donald Trump.

Paul-Simon Handy Regional Director East Africa and Representative to the African Union, ISS Addis Ababa The United States (US) and the African Union Commission (AUC) have announced a new plan to ...

More displacement in the Lake Chad Basin is caused by climate disasters than by conflict, but the two are increasingly ...

The political transition in Cotonou opens a window for regional de-escalation that the African Union should seize.

Reactive counter-terrorism posture risks entrenching armed groups in a new corridor linking northwest to southwest Nigeria.

Resource bartering doesn’t deliver stability – it perpetuates institutional fragility and rarely builds public trust and ...

The AU was founded on the protection of human rights, but is the Peace and Security Council promoting this agenda?

Development partners The ISS is grateful for support from the members of the ISS Partnership Forum: the Hanns Seidel ...

This seminar explores how foundational AU norms and principles are being interpreted in responses to conflicts.