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Africa | ISS Africa
Nov 27, 2024 · Africa’s foreign policy must focus on continental needs. Rather than seeking common African positions, prioritising Africa’s development and peace can provide a foundation for meaningful global influence.
Africa Report | ISS Africa
Feb 7, 2023 · Charting Africa’s blue future: youth inclusion as a catalyst for peace and development. Empowering Africa’s vast youth population in the blue economy can help the continent achieve economic stability and development.
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Africa’s foreign policy and development efforts should unequivocally support the policies and approaches that would advance the Sustainable ‘best of world’ objective through greater convergence and more robust, more effective continental institutions, which support and sustain Africa’s aspirations and values as enshrined in Agenda 2063.
Financing Africa’s future | ISS Africa
Dec 18, 2024 · Africa’s debt is rising roughly four times faster than its economic growth, jumping 10 percentage points from 2010 to constitute 29% of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2022.
Africa in the World - ISS African Futures
Jan 14, 2025 · Summary This theme starts with an overview of recent dynamics in power and influence, using trends in Gross Domestic Product per Capita (GDPPC), and then three separate indices of power and influence to understand the likely future evolution of a business-as-usual forecast. The analysis points to incremental improvements in Africa's material power, at odds with the continent's rapidly growing ...
Securing momentum for Africa’s democracy - ISS African Futures
2 days ago · Figure 1: Support for elections | 39 African countries | 2021/2023. Perhaps reflecting some dissatisfaction with the experience of low-quality, disputed or violent elections, overall support for elections has weakened somewhat since 2011/2013, declining from 83% to 75% in 2023 across 30 countries surveyed consistently.
African refugees neglected as crises worsen | ISS Africa
Jun 20, 2024 · The NRC report ranks Burkina Faso as the most neglected displacement crisis for the second year, with two million IDPs and 36 000 refugees, including 707 000 new displacements in 2023.
How we work - ISS Africa
Dr Jakkie Cilliers is Head of African Futures and Innovation at the ISS and Chairperson of the ISS Board of Trustees. He is the co-founder of the ISS and was the organisation’s executive director until 2015. Jakkie is an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria and is on the advisory board of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, and the Centre on International Conflict ...
Sub-Saharan Africa - ISS African Futures
Dec 13, 2023 · Forecasting of the developmental prospects and potential of the Sub-Saharan African region by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) African Futures and Innovation (AFI) programme. The Current Path forecast is divided into summaries based on demographics, economics, poverty, health/WaSH and climate change/energy. A second section then presents scenario for potential improvements in stability ...