Eastern Africa

In Eastern Africa, MAB has worked toward determining how assistance related to implementation of international "hard security" mandates can help bridge the security/development divide in the region by facilitating capacity-building in areas such as border and maritime security. Improved assistance in these areas would simultaneously impede the flow of illicit small arms, illicit nuclear materials and enhance trade. MAB continues to engage extensively with governments, regional organizations, and NGOs on implementation efforts.

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Current Research

  • Mobile Banking Helps Africa Advance

    The economic growth rate across sub-Saharan Africa has remained at more than five percent in recent years despite the ongoing global recession.  Myriad macroeconomic explanations help explain this progress, but one intriguing element that is both underappreciated and undervalued involves a widget that fits in your pocket: the cell phone. The ability of cheap, easy-to-use

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  • Africa’s Quest: Bridging the Security/Development Divide

    AFRICA’S QUEST:
    Bridging the security/development divide in an era of economic opportunity
    and mounting security challenges
    An event featuring

    Ambassador Baso Sangqu, Permanent Representative of South Africa to the United Nations
    Mr. David Kimaiyo, Kenya National Focal Point on Small Arms and Light Weapons
    Mr. Simon G. Limage, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Nonproliferation

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  • Bordering on Development

    You would be hard-pressed today to find someone that rejects Kofi Annan's axiom that "you cannot have development without security and you cannot have security without development." However, practical implementation of this powerful logic is still largely unfulfilled. Insufficient cooperation and coordination of resources-financial, technical, and human-between military,

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  • Johan Bergenas published in Newsmill with Ambassador Adala

    Managing Across Boundaries Deputy Director Johan Bergenas was published in Newsmill, writing with Ambassador Adala of the Africa Peace Forum (AFPO) on the joint MAB-AFPO initiative to develop a Kenyan border security action plan aimed to be a helpful tool for the Government of Kenya to solicit international assistance for building capacity at borders.

    To read the full

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  • MAB Report Launch in Nairobi, Kenya

    More than half of the people in sub-Saharan Africa live in poverty, and in certain parts of Eastern Africa, the poverty rate exceeds 80 percent. At least 40 percent of Africans do not have enough food, 50 percent suffer from water-related diseases, and 40 percent of women do not have access to basic education. The list goes on. Disease, food insecurity, and the lack of

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