Vol 65 No 20 | AFRICAUNITED NATIONS Making multilateralism work by other means 3rd October 2024 UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s Summit of the Future boosted reforms and delivered some wins for Africa It bears the hallmarks of a grandiosity guaranteed to rile isolationists gearing up for the fight of their lives in the United States presidential election on 5 November. When the ... READ FOR FREE
Vol 65 No 20 | FRANCEAFRICA Françafrique’s high priest gives up his secrets 2nd October 2024 A new book by the man who filled the brown envelopes casts scandalous light on the traffic in bribes between African and French politicians Robert Bourgi, the 79-year-old last éminence grise of Françafrique, has revealed all – mostly – in a book about his 40-year-career first as a trusted lieu... READ FOR FREE
Vol 65 No 20 | EUROPEAN UNIONAFRICA Von der Leyen’s latest team lacks Africa vision 1st October 2024 Migration control, Global Gateway spending and critical minerals will dominate the new commissioners’ agenda After celebrating Africa as Europe’s ‘sister’ continent as she campaigned for a second five-year term as European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen devot...
DISPATCHES Vol 65 No 20 | AFRICAFINANCE Financing a debt to nature 1st October 2024 A group of countries is working on a joint conservation plan to raise $2 billion to protect coral reefs, mangroves and fish stocks in the Indian Ocean A group of African nations is working on what could become the world’s first joint ‘debt-for-nature’ swap and the latest innovative solution on debt reduction and... READ FOR FREE
Vol 65 No 20 | RUSSIAAFRICA A web of disinformation 3rd October 2024 A nascent effort to set up a ‘Pan African Intelligence Agency’, led by the same group linked to the creation of the ‘Russosphere’ French-language disinforma...
Vol 65 No 20 | EUROPEAN UNIONAFRICA Faulty funding 3rd October 2024 Wasteful, inefficient and paying scant attention to human rights abuses was the verdict on the €5 billion EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF), in a report by the Europea...
Vol 65 No 19 | FRANCEAFRICA President Macron plans military cuts 19th September 2024 Phasing down security operations in West and Central Africa, Paris keeps its diplomatic and economic ambitions Plans for a drastic pruning back of France’s military deployments in Africa could be confirmed within weeks as Paris adapts to the reality of widespread resentment of its lon...
Vol 65 No 19 | AFRICAHEALTH Vaccine shortfall risks spread of deadly new mpox strain 13th September 2024 Disputes over pricing between Big Pharma and African states delayed response as did poor testing and surveillance It took less than a year for the virus to resurface in Congo-Kinshasa after the World Health Organization (WHO) had announced in May 2023 that the global mpox emergency was over. I...
Vol 65 No 19 | EUROPEAN UNIONAFRICA Gas or hot air? 19th September 2024 Brussels continues to push green hydrogen investment as a foreign policy and energy tool, with European Commissioner for Energy, Kadri Simson, unveiling a series of new programmes ...
Vol 65 No 18 | CHINAAFRICA Beijing’s green new deal pledges factories in Africa 4th September 2024 With its domestic market almost saturated and western tariffs biting, China is planning to make more electric vehicles in Africa A string of investment announcements for electric vehicle production across Africa are expected at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation summit in Beijing from 4-6 September. Previ... READ FOR FREE