How resources and rival powers are remaking Africa's security landscape
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2026-02-18
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Daily Monitor
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Africa’s conflicts are too often narrated as separate emergencies: Sudan as a Red Sea-Horn of Africa catastrophe, and the Sahel as a West African counter-terrorism theatre. That framing is increasingly misleading. A connected “fracture belt" is emerging, a widening arc in which civil war insurgency displacement, illicit finance, and external competition reinforce one another across borders. In strategic terms, these crises are converging into a single regional security system with continent-wide consequences.
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Obedgiu, S. (2026). How resources and rival powers are remaking Africa's security landscape. Daily Monitor.