Tag: violence
Africa’s 2024 Security Trends in 10 Graphics
Africa’s persisting conflicts are compounding crises of governance on the continent, straining already fragile regions and opening the door to foreign exploitation through proxy...
Why were Africa’s violence levels up in 2024?
2024 was a bleak year for Africa. Libya and Sudan were partitioned. Ethiopia struggled to contain insurgencies in Tigray, Amhara and Oromia, and conflict...
Concerning crime figures revealed in key Stats SA report
Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) conducted the Governance, Public Safety, and Justice Survey (GPSJS) from April 2023 to March 2024. The GPSJS is a...
Soldiers and police put the lid on Eastern Cape violence ahead...
Mthatha-headquartered 14 SA Infantry (SAI) Battalion was mobilised ahead of Election Day to assist police stopping violence and rioting in the Eastern Cape town.
The...
Public warned against sharing videos inciting violence as protests bring Mthatha...
Eastern Cape Transport and Community Safety MEC Xolile Nqatha has warned the public that the State will deal decisively with any fear mongers responsible...
South Africa’s polls unlikely to result in widespread public violence
South Africa’s 29 May national and provincial elections will be the hardest fought since the birth of the country’s democracy in 1994. Surveys show...
Deaths linked to militant Islamist violence in Africa continue to spiral
Fatalities linked to militant Islamist violence jumped by 20 percent in the past year, claiming more than 23,000 lives—a new record. Over 80 percent...
ISS: Turning away from terrorism – lessons from the Lake Chad...
Terror groups in the Sahel are becoming more resilient, making it hard for governments and their partners to degrade them. As the region explores...
Record increase in extremist attacks shows Malian junta’s ineffective strategy
Mali’s ruling junta has repeatedly pledged to restore peace to the country after using the terror threat as justification for coups in 2020 and...
South Africa more violent as global peace levels continue to deteriorate
The 17th edition of the just released annual global peace index (GPI) reveals the average level of global peacefulness deteriorated for the ninth consecutive...
ISS: South Africa does have the means to reduce violence
In May, police minister Beki Cele praised the South African Police Service’ (SAPS) ‘more boots on the ground’ approach to fighting crime. His speech...
Kenya violence: 5 key drivers of the decades-long conflict in the...
Conflict and insecurity are prevalent in northern Kenya. In recent weeks, cases of bandit attacks in the region have left villages terrorised and led...
Armed conflict and climate change: how these two threats play out...
The world is falling miserably short of reducing carbon emissions in line with the Paris Agreement, a 2015 treaty to keep global warming well...
Sahel and Somalia drive rise in Africa’s militant Islamist group violence
Militant Islamist violence in Africa has risen continuously over the past decade, doubling in just the past 3 years.
A review of violence involving African...
Sahel-based violence ripples across borders into coastal countries
Attacks by Islamic extremists in Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali are rippling out of the Sahel and across the borders of countries to the...
Mass shootings in South Africa are often over group turf: how...
In just two days in early July, 25 people were shot dead in four separate incidents at taverns across South Africa. In one of...
Cele to visit Soweto tavern mass shooting site
Police Minister, General Bheki Cele, will on Monday 11 July receive a full report on the mass shooting that claimed the lives of 15...
Training local leaders in mediation can reduce violence: positive results in...
Violence and insecurity are plaguing the northern parts of Nigeria. Banditry, kidnapping and other forms of indiscriminate violence have risen sharply during the pandemic.
Conflicts...
ISS: Medical professionals can help prevent violence in South Africa
A mass shooting in Khayelitsha in the Western Cape on 8 May and another on 21 May have drawn attention to the high violence...
ISS: Violence in Nigeria’s south-east demands a holistic response
Insecurity in Nigeria is growing in scale, spread and sophistication. A total of 1 486 people in the country were victims of insecurity in...
Specialised team established to investigate political violence in Tshwane
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has established a specialised team that will investigate politically related violence that has in recent times plagued Tshwane...
ISS: New private sector options for preventing violence
Work-based programmes can make the home and the workplace safer, and in the process improve productivity and profits.
In South Africa, reports of women being...
Nigerian regulator tells TV stations to curb reporting on violence
Nigeria's broadcasting regulator has asked TV stations to curb their reporting of insecurity in the country by withholding details of incidents and victims, in...
Committee calls for coherence in characterisation of violence, looting
The Joint Standing Committee on Defence has called for coherence in characterising what led to the violence, wanton looting and destruction of property over...
King Misuzulu calls for end to violence and looting
Appealing for peace and calm, incoming amaZulu King Misuzulu Zulu KaZwelithini, has instructed his subjects to withdraw from participating in the wanton destruction of...
Explainer: Why violence is engulfing South Africa
Days of riots and looting in South Africa have left more than 70 people dead, hurt thousands of businesses and damaged major infrastructure in...
Gauteng, KZN deaths, arrest numbers revealed
More than 750 people were arrested for wanton destruction and looting of businesses and properties over the past five days.
Of these, 304 were arrested...
President Ramaphosa condemns acts of violence
President Cyril Ramaphosa has condemned the recent sporadic but increasingly violent protests in some parts of the country.
“Key infrastructure like national roads have been...
Nigerian lawmakers approve $2.4 billion to fight violence, fund vaccines
Nigeria's parliament passed a 983 billion naira ($2.4 billion) supplementary budget on Wednesday to address rising insecurity in the country and fund COVID-19 vaccines.
Nigeria,...
Nigeria’s president threatens rebels amid rising violence in southeast
People who promote insurrection in Nigeria face a “rude shock”, its president warned on Tuesday, raising the possibility of a fierce crackdown on rising...
ISS: Climate change and violence in Africa: no time to lose
The AU is the first international body to tackle the problem head-on, and it needs global support.
Climate change poses serious security threats in Africa....
Multi-dimensional response needed to curb violence in schools
The Portfolio Committee on Basic Education on Wednesday said a multidimensional response is necessary to curb the worrying increase in the incidence of violence...
Companies need to prepare for more political disturbances and violence, analysts...
A significant increase in the number of riots, demonstrations and vandalism, as terrorism events decline, means civil unrest is now the main political risk...
Violence erupts as kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls return to families
One moment, Hadiza was weeping and flinging her arms around her father for the first time since her abduction; the next - gunfire and...
The violence and insecurity affecting Nigeria
Gunmen have abducted schoolgirls in northwest Nigeria’s Zamfara state, a state spokesman said on Friday.
The incident is the second such kidnapping in just over...
Violence still raging in South Sudan despite peace deal: UN
Violence is still raging in vast swathes of South Sudan a year after a peace deal was signed to end a civil war that...
Nigeria’s president calls for calm after clashes in southwest Oyo state
Nigeria’s president appealed for calm on Sunday following reports of intercommunal violence between ethnic groups at a market in the southwestern state of Oyo.
Clashes...
Violence in Nigeria – what and where
Islamist extremist group Boko Haram claimed responsibility for abducting hundreds of boys from a boarding school in Nigeria’s Katsina state, according to an audio...
ISS: Time to tackle violence against women in Mali
The transition period could set the tone for new norms that future governments could live by.
On 26 September, hundreds of Malian women and some...
Burkina Faso holds election under looming threat of violence
Polls closed in Burkina Faso on Sunday after a presidential and parliamentary election dominated by the threat of Islamist violence that prevented voting in...
Ivory Coast wants violence to end before election
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara’s government reached out to his main opponents and religious leaders to intervene and ease tensions following his decision to...
ISS: Lockdown lessons on violence and policing in South Africa
In an effort to enhance policing and violence prevention, a team of Western Cape Government and Institute for Security Studies (ISS) researchers carried out...
ISS: Domestic violence during COVID-19: are we asking the right questions?
The number of domestic violence cases reported to the South African police between March and April dropped by 69.4%. This figure makes it tempting...
Opposition blamed for Sierra Leone violence
Sierra Leone president Julius Maada Bio accused the main opposition party of orchestrating a spate of violent incidents, deepening a political standoff that risks...
Defence committee concerned about soldier violence during lockdown
Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (PCDMV) supports deployment of national defence force elements to ensure lockdown protocols and regulations are adhered...
Cameroonians flee in the face of violence
Almost 8 000 Cameroon refugees fled to eastern and southern Nigeria over the past two weeks, the UN refugee agency said, as violence flared...
ISS: Insecurity in the Sahel won’t be solved at high-level summits
Terror attacks in the Sahel have increased five-fold since 2016. In addition to civilian casualties, attacks on military personnel in the Sahelian states, as...
Global violent deaths on the rise
The year 2017 saw the second highest annual rate of global violent deaths in the period 2004–17, according to new data from the Small...
Burkinabes flee escalating violence
The number of people forced to flee their homes in two regions of Burkina Faso besieged by ethnic and jihadist violence increased more than...
World losing ground against Sahel violence
West African and international powers are failing to tackle the spiralling threat of Islamist militancy in the Sahel region, which is spreading to the...
