Audio By Vocalize Members of the M23 armed group during a patrol following the takeover of Bukavu on February 18, 2025. [AFP] Across several parts of Africa, insecurity has become a development crisis. From the Sahel to fragile borderlands and pastoralist regions, armed criminality is disrupting the foundations of daily life. Communities are losing livestock, markets are shrinking, schools are closing, transport routes are becoming riskier, and families are being pushed deeper into poverty and displacement. In many of these places, insecurity is often a symptom of systems that have failed to create enough opportunity, enough inclusion, and enough hope…