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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 28m

See our Spotlight for more on Nigeria's raging information battle: africacenter.org/spo...

Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 28m

These trends are particularly rampant across social media platforms in northern Nigeria, where threats from militant Islamist groups and organized criminal gangs are focused.

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 28m

Nigeria is facing a host of coordinated and deceptive foreign information campaigns intended to shape public perceptions of insecurity, governance, and Nigeria’s regional partnerships.

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Our new spotlight looks at Africa’s regional economic corridors, what makes them work, and the opportunities they offer to strengthen integrated continental networks: africacenter.org/spo...

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

An independent oversight board within ECOWAS manages plans for the Corridor, coordinates resource mobilization and FDI, and facilitates communication among local, regional, and external stakeholders, underscoring the importance of sound governance to corridor development.

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Abidjan–Lagos Corridor is the economic spine of coastal West Africa, connecting ports, industrial centers, and consumer markets in five countries. Economic activity encompasses manufacturing, agriculture, energy, logistics, ICT, tourism, mining, and special economic zones.

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Le dernier exercice de combat aérien entre la Chine et l’Égypte marque une avancée significative en matière d’échelle, de complexité et de projection de puissance par rapport aux précédents exercices d’entraînement militaire de la Chine en Afrique. africacenter.org/fr/...

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

For economic corridors to realize their economic potential, African countries must ensure that foreign participation in corridor development advances regional priorities and promotes sound management without eroding policy autonomy. africacenter.org/spo... 3/3

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sustainable corridors in the 21st century succeed as integrated economic systems. They connect ports to reliable road, rail, logistics, energy, and industrial networks, stimulating businesses and further demand for corridor development. africacenter.org/spo... 2/3

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Africa is endowed with some of the world’s largest known reserves of critical minerals. Renewed global interest in securing stable supplies of these minerals has revisited attention on the continent’s infrastructure and logistics corridors. africacenter.org/spo... 1/3

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

فإن التصدع الداخلي للبيئة الأمنية في السودان يحمل تداعيات بعيدة المدى على مسار الحرب، بما في ذلك التحديات الأمنية والسياسية والاقتصادية التي ستشكل المشهد فيما بعد الصراع. africacenter.org/ar/...

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The stakes for governance, security, and development in Nigeria are high. Countries that succumb to coups are subject to years of instability. African countries that avoid coups have made up ground on the UN Human Development Index. Those that are coup-prone have not. africanarguments.org...

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Information operations targeting Nigeria seek to weaken confidence in elections and democratic institutions, discourage civic participation, intensify social divisions, undermine regional leadership, and make an authoritarian path appear reasonable or inevitable. africacenter.org/spo...

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

إن مناورة “نسور الحضارة” الأخيرة، التي تقدم قدرات صينية متطورة في مناورات عالية الإيقاع في إفريقيا، تؤكد أن الميزات الرئيسية لإستراتيجية التدريب المتطورة للصين في إفريقيا ترتبط ارتباطا أوثق ببناء قدرات الصين القتالية والاستطلاعية، وليس بتعزيز قدرات القوات الإفريقية. africacenter.org/ar/...

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nigerian officials, fact-checkers, investigative journalists, election observers, digital-rights groups, researchers, and local leaders are monitoring information manipulation, exposing covert networks, informing audiences, and innovating new ways to build resilience. africacenter.org/spo...

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nigeria’s greatest advantage against foreign information operations is the breadth and vibrancy of its media and information networks. Like other democracies, its strength lies not in controlling information, but in drawing on independent voices from media, civil society, academia, tech, and more.

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Si ces groupes ont apporté des effectifs supplémentaires pour lutter contre le M23, leur prolifération complique les structures de commandement, crée des centres d’autorité concurrents et sape la réforme à long terme du secteur de la sécurité.

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Beyond M23: Addressing the Underlying Drivers of the DRC Conflict

For peace with M23 and stability in eastern DRC, address issues of citizenship, security sector reform, and mineral sector transparency.

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

L’incapacité à maintenir la stabilité dans l’est de la RDC découle en partie des faiblesses persistantes du secteur de la sécurité congolais. Ces faiblesses contribuent à expliquer le recours continu du gouvernement aux milices, aux forces étrangères et aux mercenaires.

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Denis Mahonghol's Security Brief explores the effects of unchecked illegal logging on security, governance, economy, and personal livelihoods, and identifies priority actions for the national, local, regional, and international levels. africacenter.org/pub...

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But criminals in the Congo Basin have developed effective information systems, drawing from a well-entrenched network of informants on the ground working cooperatively and exploiting leakages in the regulatory frameworks. (Photo: Unmarked logs - often an indicator of illegal logging.)

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Launched in 2016, the AFRICA-TWIX links law enforcement officers in the Congo Basin to one another and to restricted databases that include wildlife identification tools, legal texts from the platform’s member countries, training materials, and a database of wildlife seizures, among other resources.

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Defeating established criminal networks requires consistent and quality coordination and exchange of information. But many Congo Basin countries continue to lack operational traceability systems that prevent them from effectively controlling and monitoring the timber trade.

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

See our new Spotlight for details, and to learn how Nigerians are responding to these threats: africacenter.org/spo...

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nigeria’s 2027 elections have been a focal point of foreign information operations. Messages from these campaigns aim to advance the argument that voting is ineffective, while simultaneously hyping fears of instability with the suggestion that only a strongman can solve Nigeria’s problems.

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

These charts show the most influential accounts in this conversation across two 6-month periods. The leading amplifiers in both are documented or suspected malign information operation (IO) assets—showing how a relatively small number of coordinated actors can exert disproportionate influence.

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This network map on Nigerian social media topics shows detected coordinated inauthentic behavior (in red) closely overlaps with accounts spreading pro-Russian narratives and those promoting military-led governance.

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nigeria is facing a host of coordinated and deceptive foreign information campaigns intended to shape public perceptions of insecurity, governance, and Nigeria’s regional partnerships. These trends are particularly rampant across social media platforms in northern Nigeria.

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ويدعم كل من قوات الدعم السريع والقوات المسلحة السودانية عشرات الميليشيات لتعزيز الأهداف العسكرية والسياسية للأطراف الرئيسية المتحاربة. والطبيعة النفعية المتزايدة لهذه الصفقات تعزز سلسلة من الانشقاقات والتحالفات المتغيرة باستمرار. africacenter.org/ar/...

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our new Spotlight examines: the actors subverting Nigeria's information integrity; the narratives being used to foster disillusionment, apathy, and even insecurity; how Nigerians are countering these threats; and what can be done to scale up this response. africacenter.org/spo...

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Foreign actors are targeting Nigeria with manipulative information operations to erode trust, deepen polarization, and shape security narratives to gain greater leverage over Nigeria’s political and economic trajectory.

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In a recent Spotlight we assessed the escalating security and economic costs to the continent: africacenter.org/spo... 3/3

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

While often viewed from a maritime security lens, the Houthis’ links to renewed piracy in the Gulf of Aden and their growing collaboration with al Shabaab in Somalia are at root consequences of the prolonged instability of fragile states bordering these strategic maritime chokepoints. 2/3

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Renewed attacks by Yemen’s Houthi militants on maritime traffic and the seizure of territory along the Bab al Mandeb Strait are expanding the militant group’s leverage over access to the Red Sea and reshaping the region’s security . 1/3

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Afin de perturber les sources de financement des groupes terroristes, il est nécessaire de mettre en place une approche multisectorielle renforcée associant les CRF, les forces de l’ordre, l’armée, les procureurs, les juges, et des partenaires régionaux et internationaux. africacenter.org/fr/...

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nearly 45 million Africans (roughly 3% of the African population) are forcibly displaced—having fled conflict, violence, and repression. Seven countries account for roughly 85% of that number. Get all the details in our Infographic breakdown: africacenter.org/spo...

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

These Chinese capabilities include long-range logistics, aerial refueling, dissimilar air combat against Western fighters, and sustained overseas power projection. This focus on China’s broader warfighting objectives marks a significant shift from earlier formats. africacenter.org/spo...

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This year's exercise underscores that key features of China’s evolving training strategy in Africa are more relevant to building China’s warfighting and expeditionary capabilities than to strengthening African force capacities.

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Eagles of Civilization 2026,” the latest China–Egypt air force warfighting exercise, is a significant step up in scale, complexity, and power projection from China’s previous military training drills in Africa, including last year’s Eagles of Civilization.

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This new escalation comes after two years of tensions stemming ultimately from rivalries within the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). Our Spotlight last year broke down the dispute and reviewed the status of the 2022 Cessation of Hostilities Agreement: africacenter.org/spo... 3/3

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Conflict is a key driver of Africa's forced displacement crisis, and Ethiopia’s neighbors are only more unstable than during the 2022-2022 conflict. africacenter.org/spo... 2/3

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fighting is intensifying in Ethiopia, with 150,000 people already displaced in Ethiopia’s Afar region addisstandard.com/as... 1/3

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ambiguities over these essentials have repeatedly been exploited by political actors, fueling discrimination, land disputes, and armed mobilization. See our Spotlight for details: africacenter.org/spo...

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Among the most sensitive drivers of the conflict in eastern DRC is the unresolved status of Congolese communities with origins from around the Great Lakes region. While often framed as ethnic, these conflicts are fundamentally about citizenship, constitutional recognition, and political inclusion.

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Près de 45 millions d’Africains (soit environ 3 % de la population africaine) sont déplacés de force, ayant fui les conflits, la violence et la répression. Sept pays représentent environ 85 % de ce chiffre. africacenter.org/fr/...

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Although 15 African countries experienced some degree of militant Islamist violence over the past year, 94% of fatalities have occurred in 5 countries: Somalia, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger. africacenter.org/spo...

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

إن هزيمة حركة الشباب وغيرها من الجماعات الإرهابية في شرق إفريقيا ستتطلب تقويض قدراتها المتنامية على توليد الإيرادات من خلال تعزيز التنسيق الوطني والإقليمي. africacenter.org/ar/...

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Despite a track record of solid elections, recent years have provided political, security, and geostrategic disruptions in São Tomé and Príncipe. This weekend's elections will be a test for the nation to reassert its democratic credentials and reputation for stability. africacenter.org/spo...

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

عادة ما يتم تصوير الصراع في السودان على أنه منافسة بين ميليشيتين: القوات المسلحة السودانية (SAF) وقوات الدعم السريع (RSF). وهذا يحجب التصدع المتسارع للمشهد الأمني في السودان. وتشير التقديرات إلى وجود ١٥٠ ميليشيا نشطة الآن في الصراع. africacenter.org/ar/...

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To disrupt the financial lifelines that sustain terrorist groups, an enhanced multisectoral approach involving FIUs, law enforcement, military, prosecutors, judges, as well as regional and international partners is needed. Our Spotlight has an array of recommendations: africacenter.org/spo...

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The prospect of Houthi control of the Bab al Mandeb Strait elevates economic costs and fundamentally shifts the regional security landscape for Africa and the Red Sea region. Our new Spotlight has the latest: africacenter.org/spo...

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