ABSTRACT
Central Africa, the area covered by the Great Lakes states, Chad, the Central African Republic (CAR) and countries bordering the Gulf of Guinea, is among the continent's most conflict-prone regions. Over the last twenty years, Africa's most protracted crises and conflicts, such as the ones in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and the CAR, have taken place in Central Africa. In many countries, post-conflict security problems prevail. Security and stability hence remain considerably fragile.
