Eastern Africa

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

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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

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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."

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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

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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

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• MAB participates in trade security workshop in Kenya

  Managing Across Boundaries Director Brian Finlay and Research Analyst Johan Bergenas participated in the workshop of "Promoting Regional Security and Development with International Security

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• Brian Finlay participates in workshop to secure ports and borders in East Africa

  Jointly hosted by AFRICOM and NNSA, the East Africa Border Security Workshop brought together participants from seven East African countries and experts from NNSA, AFRICOM, the US

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• Conflict, Security and Development in East Africa

  On May 13, 2011, the Permanent Missions of Finland and Kenya, in cooperation with Stimson Center’s Managing Across Boundaries program (MAB), hosted an event at the Finnish Consulate in New

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• Conflict, Security and Development in East Africa

  Conflict, Security and Development in East Africa

   

  An event

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• The IAEA’s Multidimensional Assistance: Opportunities for Atomic Engagement in Africa

  Today, a deep divide exists between the security priorities of the developed world and states in the Global South. While governments in developed states have concluded that weapons

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• Beyond Boundaries in Eastern Africa: Part 5

  A five part series that started on Monday in the World Politics Review examines security and development aid in East Africa. This is the final entry in the series. The series is based on a

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• Beyond Boundaries in Eastern Africa

  As a direct result of globalization and expanded economic opportunity, the last half century has yielded the most remarkable exodus from poverty in human history. Regrettably, not all have

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• Cooperative Threat Reduction: Reducing Biological Risks in East Africa

  In November 2010, Senator Richard Lugar and a team of Pentagon officials travelled to biological research facilities in Kenya and Uganda to highlight the regional bioterrorism threat. The

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• The Managing Across Boundaries program hosted by Finnish UN Mission

  On Friday, February 25, 2011, Ambassador Jarmo Viinanen, the Permanent Representative of Finland to the United Nations, hosted a luncheon to discuss the joint project by Finland and the

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• MAB program hosted by the Permanent Representative of Finland to the United Nations

  Viinanen, the Permanent Representative of Finland to the United Nations, hosted a luncheon to discuss the joint project by Finland and the Stimson Center in Eastern and Southern Africa on

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• Bridging the Security/Development Divide in East Africa with International Security Assistance

  During the week of December 6, the Managing Across Boundaries (MAB) program travelled to East Africa to engage with governments and the nongovernmental community under the auspices of its

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• MAB and Stanley Foundation host joint roundtable meeting in East Africa

   

  In Nairobi, Kenya, the MAB program, in cooperation with the Stanley

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