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It argues that the 'security first' approach of international donors is flawed because it focuses on state security while ignoring the structural economic collapse caused by neo-liberal structural adjustment programmes and unsustainable debt. The author describes 'new wars' in Africa as rational economic responses to exclusion, where warlords utilize global markets for lootable commodities. 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This insecurity is driven by the alienation of land from customary systems, land concentration by wealthy individuals in countries like Zimbabwe, Angola, and the eastern DRC, and the fragmentation of plots due to population growth in Rwanda and Burundi.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"issafri-002192#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"In certain contexts, such as the eastern DRC, land has evolved from a background cause of conflict into a 'resource of conflict.' Control over land is used by local elites and warlords to reward political loyalty, employ force to defend titles, and mobilize soldiers by controlling the unfree labour of unprotected populations.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"issafri-002192#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Land is frequently used as a tool for 'ethnic cleansing' and the reconstruction of identity. 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The findings indicate that while natural resource conflicts generally show shorter peace periods bivariately, only conflicts driven by disagreements over the distribution of resources and revenues significantly increase the risk of recurrence in a multivariate analysis. 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South Africa delayed its carbon tax implementation, while Nigeria redirected fossil fuel subsidies toward public works.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"saiia-000687#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The report recommends that African nations collectively negotiate for higher-income countries to donate excess Special Drawing Rights (SDR) to IMF facilities for concessional on-lending to bolster reserve adequacy and development finance.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"saiia-000687#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["energy transition","climate resilience","carbon tax","fossil fuel subsidy","green infrastructure","decarbonization","climate finance","Nationally Determined Contributions","just transition"],"geography_discussed":["sub-Saharan Africa"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["comparative analysis","policy evaluation","macroeconomic assessment"]},{"id":"saiia-000708","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/saiia-000708","title":"Trade in SACU Energy Services: Towards A Negotiating Strategy","publisher":{"name":"South African Institute of International Affairs","organization":"south-african-institute-of-international-affairs"},"document_type":"report","language":"en","date_published":null,"source_url":"https://saiia.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/dttp_sacu_energy_services_workshop_report_200906.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The document outlines a workshop discussion on the barriers to trade in energy services in SACU, highlighting the absence of services in the SACU agreement and the tension between achieving universal electricity access and maintaining tariffs attractive to Independent Power Producers (IPPs). 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