26th AU Summit: the need-to-know

Connect with the ISS' PSC Report this week for the latest from Addis Ababa.

Africa watchers are zooming in on Addis Ababa this week as the much-discussed 26th African Union (AU) Summit gets underway.

Developments at the summit will have a definitive impact on the continent’s peace and security prospects, and the Institute for Security Studies’ PSC Report will be on the ground to keep track of the key issues and provide up-to-the-minute analysis.

Get the low-down online

Every day this week, the PSC Report will publish insights from ISS experts, with topics including crucial elections within the AU, the African Peace and Security Architecture roadmap, women’s rights and the threat of terrorism.

Catch up with us in Addis

The ISS will be hosting two events at the Sheraton hotel in Addis Ababa on Wednesday 27 January. The AU has declared 2016 the year of Human Rights in Africa, with a focus on the rights of women. In keeping with this theme, we’re launching two reports on Wednesday morning that offer rare insight into the tough and extraordinary lives of DRC combatants’ spouses, who often follow their husbands into conflict.

Click here to download the reports:

• Managing the battle space: women on the frontline in eastern DRC
• Fighting behind the frontlines: army wives in the eastern DRC

Tough decisions at this year's AU Summit is the title of our second seminar, where discussions will cover the potential deployment of an AU peacekeeping force to Burundi and the election of new PSC members.

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Talk to our experts

International criminal justice, counter-terrorism
Anton du Plessis | [email protected]; +27 78 781 3619 

Migration, international criminal justice
Ottilia Anna Maunganidze | [email protected]; +27 82 588 9755

Gender, women’s rights
Romi Sigsworth | [email protected]; +27 83 257 2582

AU Summit, AU PSC, AU Commission elections
Liesl Louw-Vaudran |[email protected]; +27 82 776 6874

Burundi, DRC, AU Summit
Stephanie Wolters | [email protected]; +27 72 433 4808

African Standby Force, Peacekeeping, African Peace and Security Architecture
Annette Leijenaar | [email protected]; +27 82 908 1877
Gustavo de Carvalho | [email protected]; +27 794 257848 

For more information, contact:

Jacqui Cochrane, ISS communication: +27 82 586 0602, [email protected]