COVID-19 & INSECURITY: ARMED GROUPS EXPLOIT THE CORONAVIRUS IN AFRICA

COVID-19 & INSECURITY: ARMED GROUPS EXPLOIT THE CORONAVIRUS IN AFRICA

   Thu, 16 April 2020

Over the past month, the Sahel and Mozambique have seen some of their most brazen and deadliest militant attacks; peace agreements in East and North Africa have been placed on the backburner; Chad has threatened to pull out of regional security forces; and xenophobic violence has occurred in Uganda. COVID-19 is exacerbating political and social instability across not only the continent’s conflict zones but potentially its urban centres as well.