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Spate of Encumbrances and Legal Incompatibility in the African Union

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Alaye A., Fakoya V.

Reality of Politics

2025

issue 32

7-31

Effective legislations and procedures that facilitate the smooth operation of government are essential for the smooth administration of any intergovernmental organization. Resolving the Organization of African Unity’s (OAU) shortcomings and putting the organization in a position to handle the developmental difficulties of African States in the contemporary era were the ultimate goals of the revised Protocols of the African Union, which came into effect in 2001. The necessity for the continent to advance in the face of a rapidly changing global environment inspired the creation of the African Union. Therefore, from a global standpoint, it is necessary to determine the elements that make up the African Union’s decision-making obstacles. In order to create efficient processes, connections, and consequences for more effective decision-making inside the African Union. The study aims to highlight the shortcomings, issues, and challenges of the burdens within the organization. A weak structure and architecture, the lack of an effective participating parliament, legal burdens and obstacles were all addressed in the report as factors that contributed to the continent’s tardiness in timely actions and solutions. These burdens were compiled and summed up through case study references and a comparative analysis of the European Union, allowing for the conclusion that, given what is visible in the continent, development will not proceed at the rate that the African continent needs to in order to catch up with the rest of the world.

Beyond conventional counterterrorism strategy: Prospects and challenges of community and vigilante groups’ policing in Africa

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Omitola B., Akinrinde O. O., Fakoya V., Tar U.

Acta Politica Polonica

2021

vol. 52

27-40

Evidences from counterterrorism and the war on terrorism operations in Africa have revealed the inadequacies of the conventional counterterrorism strategy. The over-reliance on the use of simply hard-military and offensive strategy in prosecuting the war against terrorism and forms of insurgencies in Africa since the inception of the war on terrorism and counterterrorism in Africa has largely been counterproductive. From Boko Haram in Nigeria to the Islamic State of West African Province in West Africa (ISWAP), to Al-Shabab in eastern parts of Africa, and then to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the rise and spike in terrorism in Africa remains indirectly proportionate to the conventional counterterrorism operations and strategy. The deficiency of the use of conventional counterterrorism strategy in the prosecution of war on terrorism in Africa, coupled with its flawed outcome, has ignited calls for alternative counterterrorism strategies. Chief amongst these alternative counterterrorism strategies is the Community and Vigilante-Group Policing in Africa which emboldens culture, language, episteme, authority, and interest of the people in quest to address the scourge of terrorism and other security threats. This article is therefore an attempt to unpack the prospects and side-effects of the Community and Vigilante-Group Policing as an alternative counterterrorism strategy in the war on terrorism in Africa

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Spate of Encumbrances and Legal Incompatibility in the African Union

Beyond conventional counterterrorism strategy: Prospects and challenges of community and vigilante groups’ policing in Africa