Security and Sustainable Development in Africa: What Role for AFRICOM in the Continent

Since the adoption of 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, United Nations has been actively disseminating seventeen (17) develop-ment goals (SDGs). The agenda calls global partnerships what it called “peace and prosperity people planet”. SDG number sixteen (16) seeks to promote peace, justice institutional effi-ciency. This seems be a long complex process when comes Africa. African continent is most fragile in terms development given that its regions are conflict-torn. When peace stability as prerequisite clear northern, western, Horn now unstable whole continent. Amidst all this, States Africa Command was created 2007 safe-guard bring provide region. Drawing on source materials, mainly from US Department Defense Center Strategic Studies (ACSS), along with AFRICOM Posture Statements Congress 2018 through 2022, this paper argues creation did not achieve any set mission goals. To contrary, an attrac-tion factor terrorist groups which spread over Through several datasets, also shows more threats became imminent countries were plunged into bloodshed. More failed states region would make impossible implementation Agenda’s SDGs