近年来，“第三任期”问题和极端暴恐活动成为非洲政治与安全形势的焦点。长期以来，非洲政治发展的核心问题是民主转型，但“第三任期”问题在布隆迪、刚果（金）等国引发的政治危机持续发酵，直接冲击非洲政治生态，给非洲政治转型前景增添变数。同时，非洲本土恐怖组织和“伊斯兰国”“基地”等恐怖组织勾连明显加深，恐怖活动与部分国家的内部冲突、政治危机相互叠加使非洲反恐局势复杂化。在此背景下，非洲自主安全能力加速建设，中国逐步成为非洲安全合作的重要力量。
In recent years，“Third Term” issue and extremism are the focus of African political and security circumstance. Democratic transitions are the core problem of African political development，while “Third Term” issue exploded in some African countries like Burundi and Democratic Republic of the Congo caused lasting political crisis，which impacted African political development and added more uncertainties to democratic transitions. Concurrently，collaborations among African terrorist organizations，ISIS and Al Qaeda are more closer. Terrorism，domestic conflict and political crisis are overlapped together，which complicated African anti-terrorism situation. Under this background，African countries are accelerating the self-security capacity building，and China becomes important partner in African security cooperation.
