Recently the South African Police Service (SAPS) called on Parliament to support a 3.3 billion Rand investment in its public order units. The reason given for the necessity of this investment was a noticeable increase in the number of violent service delivery protests (Hartley, 8 September 2014).…
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Ebola spread to Senegal last week, now the fifth country affected in the West Africa Ebola outbreak, which also includes Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone (Reuters, 30 August 2014). At the same time, a record number of Ebola-related protests and riots occurred as residents reacted to ad-hoc government plans to deal with the unprecedented outbreak. …
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CAR has long been a site of numerous crises. The recent escalation in violent conflict in the country has seen a dramatic increase in the intensity and frequency of attacks on civilians in particular.…
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In the run up to the 2015 elections, Burundi has recently come under international scrutiny due to its shrinking political space and the increasingly repressive tactics of its current leading party, the National Council for the Defence of Democracy-Forces for the Defence of Democracy (CNDD-FDD).…
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Islamist militias from the city of Misrata claimed control of Tripoli airport from the rival Zintan forces on August 23, 2014 after weeks of deadly clashes in the conflict hotspots of Tripoli and Benghazi (see Fig.…
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Violence against humanitarian workers reached a record high in 2013: according to the United Nations, a total of 460 humanitarian workers were killed, kidnapped or injured in 2013 in various conflict hotspots across the globe (UN News Centre, 19 August 2014).…
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Libya has experienced escalating levels of political violence following urban clashes in Tripoli and Benghazi. The security vacuum created after the fall of the Gaddafi regime has led to clashes between ethnic and communal militias and the violent offensive carried out by the ex-Gen.…
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The announcement of Tunisia’s planned purchase of 12 U.S. Black Hawk attack helicopters directed international media attention towards the Tunisian military forces’ continued engagement with a violent Islamist insurgency in the Mount Chaambi and Mount Semmama areas of Kasserine in August.…
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The three day US Africa Leaders Summit, which ended last week, has faced criticism for leaving the issue of human rights largely off the agenda (McGreal, 13 August 2014; Friedman, 7 August 2014).…
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Kenya is currently suffering from multiple security crises tied to overlapping political tensions at home and abroad. Over the past couple of months individual incidences of violence against civilians have become more lethal, leading to a dramatic rise in civilian fatalities.…
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