1 February 2013
ACCRA, Ghana - The African Security Sector Network (ASSN) has unveiled a new interim executive committee, chaired by Boubacar N'Diaye from Mauritania. The team will stay in place pending the election of a substantive executive committee by the next ASSN Annual General Meeting (AGM), tentatively planned for October 2013.

The new Chair, Boubacar N'Diaye, is a professor of Political Science and Pan-African Studies at the College of Wooster in Ohio, USA, and an expert of longstanding in the fields of security, civil-military relations and democratisation.

12-18 January 2013
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - The African Union (AU) has unveiled a multi-year programme to build its Security Sector Reform (SSR) capacity. The programme, themed 'Building African Union Capacities in Security Sector Reform (SSR): A joint United Nations-European Union support action' will be implemented in partnership between the African Union (AU) Commission, the European Union (EU), the UN Office to the AU (UNOAU), the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS), the SSR Unit in the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO SSR Unit) and the African Security Sector Network (ASSN).

20 November 2012
ARUSHA, Tanzania - The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has launched a revised Strategic Indicative Plan for its Organ on Politics, Defence and Security (SIPO).

The revised SIPO - christened SIPO II - was launched on 20 November 2012 in Arusha, Tanzania, at a meeting presided over by Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete.

SIPO II is one of the three key documents that guide the activities of the Organ, alongside the SADC Treaty and the Protocol on Politics,  Defence and Security Cooperation. Its earlier incarnation, SIPO I, was first adopted in 2004.

1 November 2012
NAIROBI, Kenya - The Security Research and Information Centre (SRIC) held a stakeholders’ meeting in Nairobi to share lessons learned during Kenya's police reform process, as well as to launch a publication documenting the findings of a baseline survey conducted as part of a joint project with the African Security Sector Network (ASSN). The meeting got underway at the Nairobi Safari Club on 1 November 2012, attended by 36 participants from the Kenya Police Service, the Government of Kenya, Private Security Companies, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and District Peace Committees.