Entrepreneurs de l'insécurité

Perrot, Sandrine

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“…Sous Amin, de 1971-1979, ce nombre était autour de 20 000. En 1986, Museveni prend le pouvoir avec 16 000 nouveaux combattants venus du maquis ; en 1999, ce dernier nombre a quadruplé 85 . Si cet accroissement n'a rien d'exceptionnel, au vu de la croissance démographique et de la taille initiale extrêmement réduite des armées nationales, ceci se passe dans un contexte où, depuis les années 1980, nombre d'institutions publiques africaines avaient été brutalement réduites suite aux diktats du FMI : les armées devenaient les seules institutions publiques qui en étaient relativement à l'abri.…”

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L’Afrique militarisée : perspectives historiques

Scheele¹

2021

Politique Africaine

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Au regard du poids accru du paradigme sécuritaire dans l’engagement international en l’Afrique, il semble envisageable de parler d’une « militarisation » du continent. Or cette militarisation n’est pas nouvelle, ni irréversible ou unidirectionnelle, ni le seul fait d’interventions externes. Cet article vise à passer en revue quelques moments forts de la militarisation de l’Afrique, en différents lieux et à différentes époques, afin d’en cerner les effets structurels et structurants, et de mieux en saisir les dynamiques actuelles.

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L’Afrique militarisée : perspectives historiques

Scheele¹

2021

Politique Africaine

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“…The UPDF developed a strategy of politico-economic and military control in the DRC that went beyond private gain. The generated resources were used, paradoxically, for the strengthening of the domestic political regime, 23 even if it can be argued that the private agendas of individual UPDF commanders at some point inflicted with this very objective.…”

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“…Endlessly diversifying his activities, he developed a resource accumulation strategy that skilfully mixed civilian and military business, charity and ''legitimate corruption'', as well as national development and international capitalism. 29 In 1999Á2000, Salim Saleh opened a trading post for the commercialisation of gold and diamonds in Kisangani and controlled a number of aviation companies that operated commercial flights from Uganda to the DRC. At least two Ugandan airlines claimed a quasi-monopoly on the flights to Equateur and Oriental province: Air Alexander belonging to Salim Saleh's wife (Jovia Akandwanaho), and Uganda Air Cargo that operated in Gemena, Basankasu, Isiro and Buta.…”

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Doing business out of war. An analysis of the UPDF's presence in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Vlassenroot

Perrot

Cuvelier

2012

Journal of Eastern African Studies

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This paper analyses how Ugandan army commanders have mobilised transborder economic networks to exploit economic opportunities in eastern DRC during the military intervention of the Ugandan People's Defence Force (UPDF) in Congo's wars (1996Á97; 1998Á2003). These transborder networks are the starting point of our evaluation of the informal political structures and networks linking Uganda's political centre to Congo's war complex. While it is often claimed that military entrepreneurismalism in the DRC has undermined political stability in Uganda, we argue that the activities of Ugandan military entrepreneurs and networks under their control were an integral part of Uganda's governance regime. Crucial to the development of this entrepreneurialism was the existence of pre-war transborder networks of economic exchange that were connecting Congo to eastern African markets. Military control over these highly informalised networks facilitated UPDF commanders' access to Congo's resources. Rather than operating as privatised sources of accumulation, these military shadow networks were directly linked to the inner circles of the Ugandan regime.

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Protection for Sale? War and the Transformation of Regulation on the Congo–Ugandan Border

Raeymaekers

Hagmann²,

Péclard³

2011

Negotiating Statehood

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This article proposes an explanation for the emergence of non-state governance in situations of apparent state collapse, based on an ethnographic study of the armed rebellion in Butembo (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo). The model of explanation is inspired by Charles Tilly's description of state making as organized crime, in which armed rebels and private economic agents enter an agreement for private protection. The study seeks to explain how an original meeting between Butembo's armed rebels of the Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie -Mouvement de Libération (RCD-ML) and an existing network of cross-border traders actually led to a 'pluralizing' moment, in which the reinterpretation of existing relations and regulatory practices contributed to a gradual transformation of the institutional framework and local governance. Recently, this local political order has entered into increasing competition with the internationally induced project of political 'transition', based on a conflict between dynamics of state building and translocal political (trans)formation.

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Entrepreneurs de l'insécurité

Cited by 20 publications

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L’Afrique militarisée : perspectives historiques

L’Afrique militarisée : perspectives historiques

Doing business out of war. An analysis of the UPDF's presence in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Protection for Sale? War and the Transformation of Regulation on the Congo–Ugandan Border

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