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This research paper examines the struggle of Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states to meet the 2001 Abuja Declaration's pledge to allocate 15% of national budgets to healthcare. It argues that the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted critical systemic gaps and provides an impetus for innovative financing strategies to overcome economic decline and aid dependency.

This report by the Institute for Security Studies analyzes the multidimensional political, economic, and social crisis in the Republic of Congo. It details how President Denis Sassou Nguesso utilized constitutional reforms to bypass term limits and maintain power, leading to increased political fragmentation, the use of coercive state machinery, and a reliance on manufactured consensus through stage-managed dialogues.

This report provides a development forecast for the Republic of the Congo up to 2043, comparing a 'Current Path' (CP) trajectory based on existing policies with various sectoral improvement scenarios and a combined 'Agenda 2063' scenario. The analysis focuses on demographics, economics, poverty, health, and energy, highlighting the country's heavy reliance on oil and its high levels of urbanization.

This report documents a political seminar held in Brazzaville, Congo, as part of 'South African Week' in April 2006. The event, organized by the South African Embassy in Brazzaville, the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), and the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), aimed to share South Africa's experiences of transitioning from apartheid to a democratic state to provide lessons for the Republic of Congo.

This report summarizes a seminar held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, which analyzed post-conflict reconstruction in the Republic of Congo (RoC) through the lens of the African Union Policy Framework on Post conflict Reconstruction and Development (PCRD). The seminar examined whether the RoC has transitioned away from its war economy and evaluated the tension between state stability and human security.

This preface describes a political seminar held in Brazzaville during South African Week, organized by the South African Embassy, IDASA, and the Institute for Security Studies. The seminar aimed to share lessons from South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy (marked by the date 27 April 1994) with representatives from the Republic of Congo. The resulting electronic publication includes session papers and speeches from four key figures in the South African democratic transition.