Best of APSACO "African Peace and Security Annual Conference" 3rd edition

The proposal for a European Union New Pact on Migration and Asylum, submitted by the European Commission on September 23, 2020, for approval by the European Parliament and the European Council, aims to provide a comprehensive response to the challenges posed to EU countries by migration and asylum. It is another step in the politically toxic attempts to reconcile the many fractures dividing Europe around the issue of migration: between the Mediterranean countries of first arrival of ...

Building on decades of biochemistry research, bioengineers have successfully transferred genes across species to produce living organisms (plants and animals, including fish) with desired traits. Unlike traditional breeding practiced over 10,000 years, this process takes years not centuries from initial conception to field testing and commercialization. Given its precision and range of application, biotechnology has even been compared to ‘playing God’. Since the mid-1990s, major gen ...

Durant  son  mandat  (2012-2020),  le  Premier  ministre  Shinzo  Abe  s’est évertué  à  démontrer  le  fort  intérêt  duJapon  pour  l’Afrique,s’engageant notamment sur un soutien financier d’un total de 60 milliards de dollars lors des sommets de la Tokyo International Conference on African Development(TICAD)  en  2013  et  2016  et  dévoilant  sa  vision  pour «un  Indo-Pacifiquelibre  et ouvert»(«Free  and  Open  Indo-Pacific»–FOIP)  lors  de  la TICADVI à Nairobi. Pour autant, ...

Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso… L’insécurité fait tache d’huile au Sahel, menaçant de s’étendre aux pays du Golfe de Guinée. Le terrorisme a entraîné la formation de milices d’auto-défense communautaires, et ainsi créé des « friches » sécuritaires dans tout le Sahel, du Bassin du lac Tchad à la région du Liptako-Gourma. Les budgets consacrés à la défense augmentent, contrairement à ceux qui soutiennent le capital humain, santé et éducation. Dans un contexte de croissance démographique so ...

US President-elect Joe Biden made climate change a priority in his election campaign. Contrary to his predecessor, he announced, among other things, the return to the Paris Accord, a vast infrastructure program for renewable energy and climate transition, and a national target of Zero emissions by 2050 (2035 for power production). With his election, the climate debate is changing. It is true that no other country had followed the United States in withdrawing from the Paris Accord. ...

Le Président américain élu, Joe Biden, a fait du climat une priorité de sa campagne électorale. Prenant le contrepied de son prédécesseur, il a notamment annoncé le retour dans l’Accord de Paris, un vaste programme d’infrastructures en faveur des énergies renouvelables et de la transition climatique ainsi qu’un objectif national de Zéro émission pour 2050 (2035 pour la production d’électricité). Avec son élection, la donne change dans le débat climatique. Certes, aucun autre pays n ...

According to this month’s OECD economic outlook, global GDP --- which took a huge hit from the pandemic and is still 3% below its level of a year ago – will not recover its pre-pandemic level until the end of 2021. In a downside scenario, the return could take almost a year longer. The OECD predictions, which imply high and protracted unemployment, are in line with the view of many other official and private organizations. The arrival of effective vaccines such as Pfizer-BioNTech wa ...