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The issue of security threats is of great interest to researchers in African affairs because of its implications for the present and future of the African continent. However, the multiplicity of links that combine this topic with several other research topics, including the nature of the state, areas of joint African action and the relations of African countries with other countries in the world, makes the study of this topic an important challenge for the researcher at the conceptual and methodological level as well. In this context, the Copenhagen School, which specialized in the development of the concept of security, offers good academic content for researchers on the subject of security threats in Africa, especially related to the concept of Securitization, which refers us to the perception of foreign actors, states and international institutions, on the subject: who threatens in Africa; threatening what or whom? How does he threaten? We do not seek for a great consensus among researchers, politicians and media analysts about the consequences of the security threats that continue to rise in Africa, between those who consider it as a real threat to the human security of the local population on the continent, and those who limit it to only a threat to the supply of the necessary economic raw material that the global economy depends on. This article is discussing those questions related to the subject of the new security threats on the African continent after providing a detailed look at the types, patterns and severity of these threats both on the African population and on the international subsystems bordering the African continent, in particular. Europe and the Arab world.
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