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Noticias created on 04/02/2012 - 14:08 by in ACSS
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In his only major address during an official visit to Washington, D.C., His Excellency Djibril Bassolé, Foreign Minister of the Burkinabe government, devoted most of his remarks to the recent military putsch in neighboring Mali.“A coup d’état does not reinforce the power of an army,” said the...... Read more...
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Noticias created on 03/22/2012 - 16:34 by in ACSS
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For Immediate Release March 22, 2012 Statement by the Press Secretary on MaliThe United States strongly condemns the violence initiated by elements of the armed forces of Mali. We call for the immediate restoration of constitutional rule... Read more...
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Noticias created on 03/19/2012 - 12:32 by in ACSS
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View Photos of This Event.Government, academic, and civil society speakers presented a range of insights into the human, political, and military implications of food insecurity in the Horn of Africa during a conference at National Defense University (NDU) in Washington, D.C., on March 8, 2012.The... Read more...
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Noticias created on 03/13/2012 - 13:55 by in ACSS
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The U.S. military recognizes that access to food and national security are “inextricably linked” in the Horn of Africa, said General Carter Ham, Commander of U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM), during a food security conference held at National Defense University in... Read more...
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Noticias created on 03/12/2012 - 11:13 by in ACSS
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Narco-States: Africa's Next Menace
By DAVIN O'REGAN
Since emerging as Africa’s first narco-state in the mid 2000s, Guinea Bissau’s slide toward instability has been swift and precipitous. The homicide rate has spiked by 25 percent and is now nearly... Read more...
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Noticias created on 02/29/2012 - 11:48 by in ACSS
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Fifty-eight military and civilian officials from 32 countries received certificates for completing a four-day counternarcotics and transnational threats symposium on Feb. 16, 2012, at National Defense University in Washington, D.C. Four U.S. Department of Defense academic centers—Africa Center... Read more...
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Noticias created on 02/29/2012 - 11:37 by in ACSS
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Guest speakers discussed the rule of law and anticorruption measures during a session of the four-day Countering Narcotics and the Illicit Commons symposium organized by the Africa Center and three other regional Department of Defense academic centers on Feb... Read more...
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Noticias created on 02/21/2012 - 10:48 by in ACSS
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View photos from the event.The Africa Center for Strategic Studies hosted 19 African military and civilian leaders for an informal briefing and networking event at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 15, 2012. The leaders were on campus as participants in the Countering... Read more...
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Noticias created on 02/16/2012 - 15:44 by in ACSS
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February's Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) Newsletter offers a range of thought-provoking products about important security issues across the continent.
This month, you can read about ACCS' recent weeklong workshop in Rwanda on preventing youth...... Read more...
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Noticias created on 02/15/2012 - 10:51 by in ACSS
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The only way for the world to counter the expanding international criminal drug trade is for nations to work together, a senior U.S. Defense Department official said during the opening of a transnational threats symposium in Washington, D.C., on Feb... Read more...
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Noticias created on 02/09/2012 - 10:43 by in ACSS
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View Photos From This Event.WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) kicked off its African Defense Attaché Seminar at the National Defense University on Monday, Feb. 6, 2012.
“The motives behind U.S. policy in Africa are very... Read more...
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Noticias created on 02/07/2012 - 15:09 by in ACSS
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The Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) held opening ceremonies on Monday, January 23, 2012, in Kigali, Rwanda, for its weeklong workshop on preventing youth radicalization in East Africa... Read more...
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Noticias created on 01/18/2012 - 07:15 by in ACSS
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The security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been busy since incumbent President Joseph Kabila was declared winner of disputed elections on December 9, 2011. Members of the Republican Guard (a presidential security detail of 12,000 soldiers), the police, and other security forces... Read more...
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Noticias created on 01/11/2012 - 17:03 by in ACSS
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On behalf of your friends and colleagues at the Africa Center, let me extend our best wishes for the New Year.Africanists know well that forecasting the future isn’t easy. Yet one prediction for 2012 seems safe enough: absent major, unforeseen external shocks, many African nations are poised to... Read more...
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Noticias created on 01/04/2012 - 16:23 by in ACSS
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The Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) is pleased to welcome Mr. Thomas Dempsey, a retired U.S. Army colonel, as Assistant Professor for Security Studies. His expertise includes security sector reform (SSR), peace operations, failed state reconstruction, African area studies,...... Read more...
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Noticias created on 01/03/2012 - 15:44 by in ACSS
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Washington—Colonel Patrick de Vathaire, Senior French Representative at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, spoke at the National Defense University on Dec. 1, 2011, about how his country successfully ran small military operations in Ivory Coast.
His remarks were part of a panel... Read more...
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Noticias created on 01/03/2012 - 14:57 by in ACSS
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Le Centre d’études stratégiques de l’Afrique (CESA) a le plaisir d’annoncer l’entrée en fonctions de M. Brad Minnick, le nouveau directeur de la communication et des relations communautaires. Brad sera le fer de lance des initiatives du CESA pour solliciter la collaboration de milliers d... Read more...
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Noticias created on 12/14/2011 - 16:30 by in ACSS
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The Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) is happy to announce that Mr. Brad Minnick is its new Director for Communications and Community Outreach. He will spearhead the center’s efforts to engage thousands of alumni around the world and expand the global audience that looks to ACSS as a... Read more...
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Noticias created on 12/09/2011 - 17:17 by in ACSS
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Updated: 12/08/2011
Dr. Benjamin P. Nickels, Assistant Professor of Transnational Threats and Counterterrorism at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS), has been studying terrorism and effective ways to counter it for years... Read more...
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Noticias created on 11/09/2011 - 17:28 by in ACSS
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The 'Arab Spring' has largely not spread south of the Sahara, but Africans are now less willing to stand by and accept stolen elections, gross abuses of power, and flaunting of inequality.
By Joseph Siegle, Guest blogger / November 7, 2011 (Taken from the Christian Science Monitor)
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Noticias created on 10/26/2011 - 17:25 by in ACSS
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ACSS Congratulates Veteran Staff Members on Promotions
By Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Updated: 10/26/2011
Kareem Oweiss Named New ACSS Director of Operations. The Africa Center is pleased to announce that Kareem Oweiss has been appointed the new Director of Operations of... Read more...