Protracted War amid SADC Intervention in the Mozambique Insurgency
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States in a regional security complex have formed ad hoc missions, which are meant to sidestep the challenges that regional economic communities (RECs) encounter in combating transnational insurgents. Ad hoc missions have made significant tactical gains in combating transnational insurgencies but have failed to achieve a complete victory in several regions of Africa. The paper examines the Southern African Development...
Understanding the Drivers of Violent Extremism in the African Sahel: A Historical Perspective
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This article analyses the historical drivers of violent extremism in the African Sahel, focusing on Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. It examines how historical factors have evolved to nurture a plethora of violent extremist organisations (VEOs) operating in the region, making it the epicentre of violent extremism in 2023. These historical factors include the influence of religion, Tuareg rebellions (1963, 1990 and 2012) in...
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This article presents the results of a rapid needs assessment conducted to determine the postwar status, needs, challenges, and aspirations of Tigray youth. The study was sponsored by the Tigray Youth Association (TYA) and aimed at designing a recovery roadmap. This article is thus an excerpt of the wider study with a practical touch of reality. Using mixed-methods approaches, researchers from Mekelle University collected...
Cost of Governance and Its Implications on Socio-Economic Development in Nigeria
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Nigeria faces challenges in sustainable economic growth despite vast resources, due to unsustainable governance costs large bureaucracy, political structure, and extravagant public expenditures. This research study explores the critical issue of the excessive cost of governance in Nigeria and its far-reaching implications on the country's socio-economic development by addressing the abnormality of excessive governance...
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This paper examines the recent upsurge of military interventions across the African continent. This study seeks to unravel whether these interventions represent a potential catalyst for substantial progress in Africa’s political and economic landscape or merely to perpetuate entrenched practices. At its core, the research delves into the pivotal choice between revolutionary upheaval and incremental reforms as mechanisms...
COMESA AND THE QUEST FOR MANAGEMENT OF INTRA-STATE CONFLICTS
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This study evaluates the process of managing conflicts within different sovereign states in the Southern and Eastern regions in Africa, particularly considering measures taken by the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) to attain security and peace and the challenges being faced. An explicit examination of the divergent challenges in the COMESA sub region highlights the fact that sub-regional and regional...
Nigeria and America’s Security Strategy in West Africa
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The United States, as a world power, participates as an Intrusive power in all regional orders especially West Africa. One of its main strategies is to organize and exploit its relations with regional powers in regulating regional order. In this wise, West Africa has become a very important region in the international order in which it accommodated regional actors that captured United States of America’s attention to...
REFLECTIONS ON AFRICANIST LITERATURE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DISCOURSE AND PRACTICE
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There have been major works on Africa (hereafter labelled Africanist literature) that are critical of International Relations as an academic discipline. The discipline is labelled ‘provincial IR’ or ‘Eurocentric’ rather than universal. This description is based on an assumption that IR reflects western experience and values and that IR concepts and theoretical postulates are ‘parochial views that rarely correspond to the...
Field Research in Political Science: Practices and Principles
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Field research tends to be a thorny issue for both students, community researchers, and practitioners. Indeed, it is difficult to conceptualize what constitute field work, the value of field research and the techniques of studying. Field Research in Political Science: Practices and Principles, first of its kind reconsider the design and execution of field research and examine it role in producing scientific knowledge,...
Africa's Integration Trajectory: Unveiling the Triad of Economy, Institutions, and Politics
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Similar to many regions globally, Africa has witnessed significant enthusiasm for regionalism. The push for Integration across the continent initially arose from a shared commitment to tackle common challenges with the thinking that regional Integration in Africa has the potential to fuel robust and equitable economic growth, mitigate poverty and unemployment, and drive initiatives for intra-regional trade and security....
NATO’s Strategy and Its Involvement in the Russian-Ukraine Crisis: A Reflective Analysis
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Sovereignty and non-interference in the internal affairs of states are foundational stones of the Westphalian system. Since the collapse of the erstwhile Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine has been a sovereign country seeking for a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) membership. Russia has ardently opposed this position, arguing that Ukraine's admission would automatically mean the expansion of NATO to its borders,...
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Africa has experienced colonialism and domination from major global powers, and is still subject to various crises, mostly political, often characterized by a refusal to relinquish power after losing an election or engaging in ethnic-based conflicts or military coups. As a result, foreign intervention and sanctions have been used in an attempt to restore stability. Despite the abundance of literature that supports the use...
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The paper tries to analyze the dilemmas revolving around one of the regions of Ethiopia named Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People’s regional state which I here onwards refers SNNPRS. The region is comprised of some 56 nations and nationalities some of which are currently demanding their own regional states. Due to such demands of the public and internal problems of the region, the government has now decided to...
Post-Independence Eritrea: Political Ideologies and Human right in Focus
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The title of the research is Post-Independence Eritrea: Political Ideologies and Human Rights in Focus. Eritrea faced lots of ups and downs after its independence from Ethiopia. Many people sacrificed their lives for independence because they expected change, prosperity, and above all free country that can grant every possible political right to its people. The expectation of many people including families of martyrs...
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The purpose of this study was to understand economic-induced migration as a security threat to regional stability, with reference to Zimbabweans migrating to South Africa. The research employed the qualitative research methodology, and a case study research design. Primary data was obtained from the key informants, and secondary data from peer-reviewed articles, newspapers, and books. The results indicated that the causes...
What makes Africa Attractive to Developed countries?
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Purpose: The main aim of this study was to explore the factors that contribute to the attractiveness of Africa in developed countries. Research design: In this study, a qualitative research design was used by involving interviews and focus group discussions to gain an in-depth understanding of the reasons that make Africa attractive to developed countries. Methodology: Data sources: The sources of data for this study...
NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY: CASE STUDY OF NORTH KOREA
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The issue of nuclear proliferation has been a significant concern for international security, with North Korea at the forefront of this debate. This study aims to investigate why despite the international community's efforts to curb North Korea's nuclear program through sanctions, negotiations, and military threats, the regime has continued to develop its nuclear arsenal. The study employs a qualitative research approach,...
‘New Wave’ of Nationalism in Ethiopian Politics: An Impediment for Nation Building
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In recent time Ethiopia witnessed new political circumstances that altered the political landscape of the country. Coupled with a good many political anecdotes, this new phenomenon has been reinvigorating the nationalism discourse and becoming a grand predicament for nation engineering in the country. The trend even leads to extreme form of nationalism; ultra nationalism that will be a peril for the nation building that...
Understanding the role of Conference of the Parties (COPs) in addressing Climate Change Challenges
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The effect of climate change is not abating, despite the numerous agreements entered into effect since the United Convention on Climate Change/UNCCC in 1992 and the over two dozen of international meetings of stakeholders to halt or reverse global warming and climate change. The general consensus among climate scientists and various communities in countries across the world is that heat waves, droughts, wild fires, floods...
Addressing Economic Inequalities and Poverty in Ghana
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In the last two decades, Ghana has achieved some economic growth since the re-launch of democratic governance in the 1990’s, though this is becoming very volatile in recent past. Ghana’s upward development averaged 5.8 percent out of the thirteen years of the last two decades. In 2009, this growth period halted due to the global economic crisis which reduced the rate to 4 percent. Macro-economic indicators picked up in...
THE BATTLE OF ADWA: A CONTINUATION OF FOREIGN POLICY BY OTHER MEANS
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War as a continuation of diplomacy in international relations can be made either to maximize power as offensive realism explains or to maximize security as defensive realism suggests. The later resonates well with Ethiopia’s diplomatic history. Ethiopia in the history of its foreign policies strived to gain an appropriate amount of power to survive amid the anarchic world and more particularly amid the scramble for Africa....
IMPLICATIONS OF SINO-RUSSIAN GEOSTRATEGIC ALIGNMENT ON U.S POLICY ON VENEZUELA
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The past decade has witnessed continued increases of Sino-Russian mutuality, rapprochement and cooperation. In many ways, Sino-Russian geostrategic alignment has significantly altered the manner in which the United States (U.S) exercises its power and influence across the globe, especially in its ‘regions’ of strategic interest. In essence this article attempts to answer the following questions: How does Sino-Russian...
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What is fascinating in the Bull's book titled the Anarchical Society: A Study Order in World Politics is that this book is undoubtedly one of the ways in which the field of interdisciplinary discussion and combined theories of other profits have provided. Contrary to what many may claim that his work is a classic book today that cannot be found in relatively contemporary complex theories, his book remains still, to a good...
Non-State Actors’ influence on Zimbabwe’s re-engagement efforts with the United Kingdom since 2017
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The aim of the study was to explore the problematic nature of Zimbabwe’s re-engagement foreign policy from a non-state actor perspective. The findings of this research were that Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the governance sector were powerful and they had a major impact on Zimbabwe’s foreign policy outcomes, especially with Western countries. It was discovered that the actions of non-state actors, especially in...
Tracing Rhetoric to Comprehend Contemporary Sino-Ghana Economic Policy Initiatives
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Theories advanced in the political economy literature concerning China’s presence in Africa have often focused on Beijing’s motive, leaving under theorized the dynamics that may be causing the responsiveness and embrace of China by these African states. The president of Ghana at the 73rd UN General Assembly defended Chinese investment for Africa and described China as the new avenue that Africans can resort to address...
A Critical Evaluation of Thirty Years of State-Civil Society Relations in Zambia, 1991 – 2021.
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This paper aimed to assess the relations between the state and civil society in Zambia in the last thirty years of the country’s plural political dispensation. The study sought to establish the extent to which both the state and civil society regard each other to be genuine associates to the cause of national development. The areas of study focus were on human rights protection, adherence to the rule of law, economic...
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Democratisation in developing countries remains an incomplete and, in many cases, elusive project. The literature on democratisation is vast and there are many different possible understandings of the term and the process. While there are many possible criteria one could employ in examining processes of democratisation, this research paper focuses on its electoral components and on the degree to which these exhibit...
A review of ethnicity, democracy, and good governance in Africa
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This paper argues that ethnicity by itself, even though misconceived is not a cause of conflict but could be, once easily manipulated by powerful elites to suit their political and economic needs. Using the data from the secondary sources, this review addresses how the misconceptions of democracy in Africa is expanding ethnicity challenges and how such affects good governance of the continent. The paper argues that most...
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The rise of cybercrimes in Nigeria has eaten deep into the fabrics of the nation and globalization is seen as the foundational cause of cybercrimes in Nigeria and other countries which are suffering from the same social menace. This paper adopted the documentary research method using the secondary source of data collection where information was derived from textbooks, journals, internet materials, periodicals and...
The 2014 Lesotho political crisis and the South African response: Challenges and achievements
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This study investigates the 2014 Lesotho political crisis and assesses the South African response to the crisis. The 2014 crisis in Lesotho was a watershed moment as it exposed the fragile nature of the political setup of the country. Regional states had become worried and if the crisis was not settled, it had the potential of having regional spill-over effects. South Africa which was at the time the chair of the Organ on...
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This study examined the developments and trends of women's political participation in Africa in general, with specific reference to Nigeria. It relied on secondary sources of data and content analysis. Using an eclectic approach of a four tied theoretical discourse: liberal feminist theory, radical feminist theory, cultural determinism theory and functionalist theory. The study reveals that the gladiator level is the most...
The Allegory of the African Continental Free Trade Area: An Optimistic Prescription?
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This paper explores the recent move towards a single continental economic bloc in the likes of the European Community, which spear-headed economic activities and integration in Europe before its final absorption into the European Union’s broader framework in 2009. It exposes the opportunities and equally show-case the possible hurdles that if not carefully handled, will bring this process of economic integration in a...
Identity Deconstruction and Identification Problem in Ethiopia The Case of Agaw Khimra
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After a long process of socio-cultural and linguistic symbiosis and subsequent identity deconstruction; the Khimra Agaw people are subjected to identification problems. The deconstruction of identity due to socio-economic and political factors and the latter reconstruction process instigated mainly by political factors was the focus of this study concomitant with the theoretical and empirical evidence and methods used to...
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This study is concerned with challenges and opportunity of gada system in peacebuilding among Borana Oromo community of south Ethiopia. The objective of this paper was to assess the challenges and opportunities of the homegrown( gada system) in peacebuilding in Borana Oromo community. To achieve the objectives, a qualitative case study of research design was implemented. Members of gada council, gada leaders who are active...
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Although there were ethnic based political organizations since 1970’s , the introduction of ethnic federalism in the post 1991 period opened a wider space for the mushroom growth of ethnic based parties in Ethiopia. Many of the political parties that are competing in the current Ethiopian politics are ethnic based. Their formation empowered many ethnic groups to have proper political representation at national and...
POLITICAL DOWNLINE & NCHINDAISM IN THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
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The study focuses on the gambit of capitalism (political downline) and its relationship with the theory of Nchindaism. It provides an understanding to the exploitative mechanics of capitalists on the less developed and predicts the pendulum from Western controlled capitalism to military alliances where Western countries are elbowed from masters to actors and the possible collapse of the United Nations (UN). It targets:...
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The paper looks at the foreign policy of Nigeria after the rise of Boko Haram in Nigeria. The Nigerian government has been seeking to establish ties with its immediate neighbors, Cameroon, the Republic of Niger, Benin and Chad, over the past few years. Since its independence, Nigeria has been pursuing a foreign policy which puts Africa at the center, particularly its West African neighbors. Africa, which was still stressed...
Migration in the African Perspective: Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks
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The study examines the nature of migration in the African continent. A theoretical review of the impact of migration on the continent reveals two antagonistic consequences. On the one hand are the optimistic propositions, while on the other are the pessimistic suppositions fiercely debating the desirability or otherwise of migration. It therefore, seeks to examine the theoretical viewpoints on the impact of migration, in...
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This paper aims to review Medhanes’s book “Turning Conflicts to Cooperation in the Horn of Africaâ€. The title and the discussion points forwarded by the author of this book are very impressive and valuable to understand the nature of conflict in the Horn of Africa and to turn the existence disorder into cooperation. Medhane identified three important objectives of the paper. Make out the root causes of the conflicts...
Elite Convergence in Socio-Economic and Political Spaces. A Case Study of Zimbabwe’s Elite Actors
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Elite convergence in Zimbabwe has often shaped the socio-economic and political environment. These convergences although not limited to political coalitions have shaped and influenced the course of direction the country has channeled. The aim of the paper is to highlight the presence of these supreme convergences between minority super powerful actors whose interests have determined how Zimbabwe is governed. The paper...
SOCIAL MEDIA’S INFLUENCE ON POLITICAL RIGHTS IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES
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Does social media have any effect on political rights in developing countries? We examine the impact of social media on political rights in 51 African countries. Political rights, which are similar to but separate from the notion of democracy, are associated with representation by the people’s choice. The continuous rise of information communication technologies like social media has enabled citizens to express their...
Ethnic Political Conflicts in Ethiopia and Its Repercussions on Neighboring States (1991-2019)
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The article attempted to identify, explain and interprets the multidimensional security repercussion of ethnic political conflicts in Ethiopia on the neighboring countries in the period 1991-2018. The study specifically focused on the conflicts between the regime in power and Oromo/Somali ethnic based rebel groups. Key informant interview and FGD were employed to gather primary data which was substantiated by secondary...
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This study examines the nexus between developmental state and democratization with references to Ethiopian democratic developmental state as the case study. The study employed qualitative research approach as the research methodology. This study is based on desk and policy review and review of literature related to developmental state and democratization in general and democratic developmental state of Ethiopia in...
Health Care Decentralization in Burundi. What type of Decentralized Health Care System do we have?
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From the mid-1980s onwards, a wave of decentralization reforms swept across the developing world. A wide range of governments embarked on state reform processes aimed at transferring responsibilities, resources and authority from higher to lower levels of government. The Government of Burundi also embarked on a series of decentralization reforms. One of these reforms has been the decentralization of the health sector...
DISSECTING THE ROLE OF PARLIAMENT OF ZIMBABWE IN KEY FOREIGN POLICY DECISIONS
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Parliaments, all over the world are expected to be the central institutions of democracy, embodying the will of the people hence should play a proactive role in the executive’s policy formulation and execution. The aim of this paper is to assess the dilemma that the parliament of Zimbabwe has faced in contributing to the formulation and execution of Zimbabwe’s foreign policy in particular. The Constitution of Zimbabwe,...
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This study investigates the factors affecting rural youth active political participation in Alge Sachi Woreda of Ilu Aba Bora zone of Oromia regional state, Ethiopia. Two hundred twenty four (224) rural youths were randomly sampled from nine (9) clustered kebeles among 29 rural kebeles in the Woreda. Open-ended questionnaires for those selected sample size and semi structured interviews for those key informants were used...
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There is no theoretical issue more interesting in contemporary literatures than the controversial dimensions of foreign aid. The author Dambisa Moyo is originally Zambian economist and writer, her books, articles, and public lectures gave more emphasis on the creation of wealth in a global economy.
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People’s active participation in elections is one of the key measures of electoral democracy. The people’s lack of interests or apathy in elections tends to undervalue the democratic process, engender mistrust in political institutions, and enthrone unaccountable leadership. This is why voter turnout is a crucial aspect of electoral studies. Even though Nigeria has successfully undergone two decades of uninterrupted...
The Role of Refugees in the Development of Nation States: A Sub-Saharan African Perspective
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Across the globe, concerns have been expressed that accepting massive influx of refugees impacts on access to scarce available resources to meet the basic needs of the general populace of the host nation. This is a socially constructed view in the mind of some observers that refugees are a burden to the receiving states. BUT is this true? In an attempt to answer the question, this paper explores the role played by refugees...
Natural Resource Governance in Africa
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The continent of Africa is one of the most richly endowed continents with natural resources that would have placed it on a world map as the most developed continent but not many countries have succeeded in turning the revenues from these natural resources to enduring economic benefits. This phenomenon often described as the “resources curse†has not only stalled development but has created such grinding poverty and...
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