Voting booths could be places of tension, even violence, and may determine whether stability or turmoil prevails.
The PSC Report spoke to Prof Tim Murithi, head of peacebuilding interventions at IJR, about leadership in Africa.
Special focus on regional economic communities: The EAC is facing serious threats, which took centre stage at its ministerial meeting earlier this month.
At the recent AU summit, the Executive Council elected four new members to the PSC for a three-year term.
To be effective, the way in which crises get onto the PSC’s agenda needs to change.
A retrospective of the outgoing PSC shows that from April 2016 to March 2018, 36% of the meetings were about ongoing crisis and conflict situations.
There are serious doubts about the efficiency of South Sudan’s justice system, says ISS researcher Allan Ngari.
The Committee of Experts, the main subsidiary body of the PSC, is finally getting off the ground.
AMISOM's funding crisis is in part due to donor fatigue, but is also linked to the diverging views about the success of the mission in Somalia.
Plans to make Nepad a development agency are pitting the old guard against the reformers.
The recent calls for sanctions against South Sudan could fall on deaf ears if the region and the UN Security Council remain divided.
In February the PSC will discuss the crises in South Sudan, Somalia and Darfur.
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