With regards to human security in Africa, this panel will highlight the evolution of organized crimes in Africa while exploring the privatization of security under international Law: • Exploitation of the COVID-19 health crisis by extremist groups • Evolution of organized crime in Africa • Private actors at the service of human security in Africa, between cohabitation and rejection • Does the privatization of security contribute to the exacerbation of tensions and conflicts? • Private military companies in Africa under international law PANEL 2: THE PRIVATIZATION OF VIOLENCE IN AFRICA: NON-STATE ARMED GROUPS AND PRIVATE SECURITY Chair: Alioune Ndiaye, Head of Peace Division, ICESCO Speakers : - Afua Boatemaa Yakohene, Research Fellow, Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD) - Rida Lyammouri, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South (PCNS) - Duncan E Omondi Gumba, Senior Researcher, Institute for Security Studies (ISS) - Al Mostafa Rezrazi, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South (PCNS)
