Borderpedia
Building Knowledge, Capacity, and Partnerships for African Borders
A Comprehensive Knowledge Hub
Borderpedia is your one-stop resource for information, analysis, and policy documents related to African borders.
We have curated a vast collection of materials from the African Union, United Nations, Regional Economic Communities (RECs), and other sources to support researchers, policymakers, and practitioners.
African Union Material
Key documents and guides from the African Union Border Programme (AUBP):
- Installation of a Cross-Border Basic Service Infrastructure: The User’s Guide
- Creation and Operation of Boundary Commissions in Africa: The User’s Guide
- Delimitation and Demarcation of Boundaries in Africa
- Union Convention on Cross-Border Cooperation (Niamey Convention)
- Declaration of African Ministers in Charge of Borders on the AUBP and Its Implementation Modalities
- Declaration on the African Union Border Programme and Modalities for the Pursuit and Acceleration of its Implementation
- Declaration on the African Border Programme and its Implementation Modalities
United Nations Material
International legal frameworks and handbooks:
- Law of the Sea
- Handbook on the delimitation of maritime boundaries
- Maritime Boundary Agreements, 1985-1991
RECs Material
Protocols and decisions from Regional Economic Communities:
- COMESA Protocol on the Free Movement of Persons Labour Services Right of Establishment and Residence
- EAC Customs Union Protocol
- ECOWAS Decision Relating to the regulations on Transhumance
- IGAD’s ICBT-CBSG-Policy-Framework
- Protocol Relating to Free Movement of Persons, Residence and Establishment
- SADC Protocol on Facilitation of Movement of Persons
Videos on Borders
Educational and documentary videos exploring border issues:
- African Borders from Barriers to Bridge (PART 1 )
- African Borders from Barriers to Bridge (PART 2)
- The Problem with Africa’s borders
- African territorial disputes & Top 10 biggest disputes
- African borders and conflict
- Let’s redraw the borders of Africa!
- Egypt’s dam problem: The geopolitics of the Nile
- How the Nile Can Provide Life and Divide Nations (Part I )
- How the Nile Can Provide Life and Divide Nations (II)
- A World of Disputed Territories
Map Room
A collection of historical and contemporary maps: