The Borders Institute
The Borders Institute (TBI) is an independent, multinational, non-profit, non-governmental organization, based as a legal entity in Nairobi, Kenya. With staff members and partners working through field-based research and high-level training on border issues, the institute is positioning itself as a leading research and training institute on border issues in Africa.
At The Borders Institute
- We AIM to find the best solution for you; not to give you the best one we have.
- We BELIEVE you have the solution; ours is to help you see it.
- We STAY with you after finding the right solution; and walk together until it is fully implemented.
- We DEVOTE all our energies towards finding the right solution for you.
- We only do more good; and no harm.
Research on knowledge gaps, nature of African borders, and effective approaches of settling border disputes, enhancing border security and promoting cross-border cooperation
A collection of information on African borders that is to be a one-stop shop.
Capacity building and training of key stakeholders involved in enhancing peaceful and prosperous borders in Africa.
The Borders News
African Century? Afro-Asian Infrastructure and Transport Corridors
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The world has undergone a profound transformation, and a new geopolitical phase has started. The edges of the...
Would redrawing of regional borders make Uganda happy?
24 August 2021 By Joachim Buwembo
We Ugandans love history. This love for things past almost led us to war with Kenya in 1976. Our gallant president ...
Need to uphold principle of intangibility of borders inherited at independence
20 August 2021
Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad, Ramtane Lamamra, on Thursday stressed the necessity to scrupu...
How to turn Nigeria into true federation
August 18, 2021
By Jerome-Mario Utomi
THERE are many reasons Nigeria must take the present call for restructuring seriously. It is in the long-t...
Northern Corridor gets $4.4m for trade projects
17 August 2021
By Anthony Kitimo
There are plans to put up 67 roadside stations to serve as rest points for truck drivers in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda,...
Ambazonian, Biafra etc: Does suppressing agitations for separation mean bottling the bomb?
17 August 2021
By Olusegun Akinfenwa
Secession related crises are fast becoming omnipresent in Africa and have led to the fragmentation and division...
Nigeria, Benin plan new commission to solve cross-border challenges
17 August 2021
By Editor
Seme border
Irked by the lingering challenges affecting cross-border trade between the two countries, members of the p...
Border disputes? Let’s make boundaries irrelevant without changing them
17 August 2021
By Shivshankar Menon
South Asia is composed of old nations in new states where nationalism is still a work in progress. Every boundar...
Boundary disputes: Osun govt inaugurates 11-man committee
August 11, 2021
By Francis Ezediuno
The Osun State Government has inaugurated an 11-man Osun State Boundary Commission to tackle the...
Sudan-Ethiopia ties worsening
09 August 2021
Sudan orders its envoy to Ethiopia home for consultations after government spokeswoman in Addis Ababa rejects Sudanese initiative...
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Project and Political Conflict
10 August 2021
By Jacob Richard Bergeron
In 2011, Ethiopia started construction on a dam along the Blue Nile River that the government coined the Gra...
How migrants are being used as weapons
8 August 2021
By Ian Birrell
The pandemic has crushed the global tourism industry, with thousands of flights cancelled and millions of holidays post...