Teaching and research university founded in 1990. Its research groups include:
- research and study group on constitutional politics
- centre for the study of the exigencies, innovations and mechanisms of social change
- interdisciplinary research group for the support of regional planning and local development
- research and study centre for statistics and development
- research group on the transformation of the rural sub-Saharan African
- study centre on African judicial reform
The website is in French and includes more details on the themes being investigated by its research groups.