Resource Center
Insights, research, and stories about borders, communities, and cross-border cooperation in Africa
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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
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United Nations Material
International legal frameworks and handbooks:
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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
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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
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Map Room
A collection of historical and contemporary maps:
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Useful Links
- ABORNE
- AU BORDER PROGRAMME
- The African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS)
- African Centre for the Study and Research on Migration
- Association for Borderlands Studies
- UNDP Resilience Hub for Africa
- European Interdisciplinary Centre for Research on Cultural Convergence of Borderlands
- The Border Policy Research Institute (BPRI)
- UniGR-Center for Border Studies
- The Centre for International Borders Research (CIBR)
- Institute Of Border And Discontinuities (IFD)
- Centre for International and Border Studies
- Border Policy Research Institute
- IBRU Centre for Borders Research
- International Migration Institute (IMI)
- The Centre for Cross Border Cooperation
- International Boundaries Research Unit
- Regional UNDP Resilience Hub for Africa