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Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Putting a spotlight on Africa's security architecture (University of Johannesburg's Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation, December 2021)

Title:
Putting a spotlight on Africa's security architecture
 
By:
Professor Adekeye Adebajo 
Director: Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Published:
University of Johannesburg, 6 December 2021
 
From the news article:
The University of Johannesburg’s Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPATC) and the Sweden-based Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) convened a hybrid seminar in Pretoria this month, of largely African and European scholars, to examine the potential influence of eight two-year rotating Elected 10 members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council:  South Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Tunisia, Niger, Sweden, Norway, and Germany. A particular focus was Africa’s security architecture, and engaging the often self-interested veto-wielding Permanent Five (P5) of the US, China, Russia, France, and Britain.