Africa Development and the Reinforcement of European Security

Resumo

Nowadays, the threats to the African countries are beginning increasingly to be materialized less in civil unrest than in criminal activities and are originated from organizations that smash the political structures, the democratic institutions, the economy and the social equilibrium of post-colonial societies, therefore denying the basic conditions they need for development. This paper argues that present transnational criminal activities taking place in Africa go beyond the suffocation of the processes of development and also deeply affect security in this continent, in Europe and globally. Factors of insecurity, like criminal networks which normally base their headquarters in poor and badly governed countries, need to be fought through the reinforcement of the security environment will help the supporting efforts to increment the African development.