indispensable for human security, it is not obvious that the security of persons necessarily depends on the security of States. In fact, certain States had been unable to provide their citizens with the most basic security coverage, owing to loss of power and authority, while war lords occupy large areas of their territories(e.g. Somalia). Thus, the sources of insecurity, instability and under­development in Africa are many and multifaceted. In this regard, it is worth pointing out, amongst others, the following: o Intra and inter-community conflicts(often resulting from land-related litigations, shortage of natural resources, environmental imbalance, etc.); o Conflicts of interest or leadership conflicts(traditional chieftaincies, political leadership); o Relational conflicts between customary law and positive law; o Religious conflicts(fundamentalism and increasing religious intolerance); o Economic and financial crimes(counterfeit currency, money laundering, undisclosed funding of political activities, illegal transactions of handicrafts, documents forgery, trafficking of weapons, poaching, etc.) o Transborder and transnational crimes, particularly hard drug trafficking, illegal migration and terrorism, etc. Amongst the root causes of insecurity are a crushing public debt shouldered by all the African countries and the rage to conquer or hold on to power, which inhibits creative initiatives and internal dynamism. Added to these are: the ferocious competition for access to natural resources, lack of economic opportunities to develop the huge natural wealth of the continent, endemic unemployment causing thousands, even millions of the youths to wallow in abject misery and, thus, pushing them to the brink of revolt to draw the authorities' attention to their plight, unwittingly promoting delinquency, violence and suicidal migration attempts 27