Security Challenges and Migration in the Central Africa

Relevance. In modern society, migration issues are closely related to security. The dynamics of the migration crisis in the context of Central African countries reflects civil wars, political and economic instability, hunger, massacres, impoverishment, and in addition to these, the phenomenon of terrorist threats has appeared.
Purpose. The purpose of this article is to highlight situations with internal migration, aspects of the geopolitics of insecurity, threats, and security restrictions. The authors also analyze the link between security and migration.
Objectives. Obtain more information on the properties of the compared phenomena and examine the direct and indirect relationship between migration and security in Central Africa.
Methodology. To find out the reasons for the existing difficulties, set goals, develop methods and options for eliminating problems, a system analysis was used. And the authors used the method of comparative analysis to obtain added information about the properties of the compared phenomena, about their direct and indirect relationships and, about the general trend of their functioning and development.
Results. According to researchers, in recent years, the relationship between migration and security has been of different nature. We can consider the problem of the security of African communities, societies and states affected by various problems of migration flows, and we can also consider the security aspect of African migrants in Central African countries.
Conclusions. The African continent has now fully entered economic globalization and the international community, and it would be inevitable to question this statement in the name of preserving political, economic difficulties, security, migration, and refugees. The AU is in fact moving towards greater liberalization of intra-African movement, in a critical spirit of the European approach. The increasingly growing intra-African migratory movements are mainly and very often regional.

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