One data point sums up the commercial stakes: there are more French companies in Nigeria than there are in the rest of West Africa. It also painted the...

The European Commission has used one problem to solve another after strategically appointing Portuguese diplomat Salvador Pinto da França as the Africa advisor to Kaja Kallas, the EU’s...

The European Parliament’s vote on 14 November to take apart the EU’s deforestation rules is another step in the weakening of the bloc’s Green Deal laws. It has...

Countries sitting on the minerals to power the energy transition – such as copper, cobalt and lithium – expect a more determined push for access from US mining...

President Emmanuel Macron’s government is wheeling out the ministers of finance, trade and foreign affairs on 19-20 November to meet African businesses and official delegates to cut deals...

As shockwaves reverberate with the prospect of a second presidential term for Donald J Trump after the 5 November elections, African banks and businesses are regrouping to cope...

Hosting last week’s BRICS summit in Kazan was a welcome break from two years of international isolation for President Vladimir Putin and a golden opportunity to increase Russia’s...

Officials tried valiantly to inject some optimism at the annual meeting of the IMF and World Bank from 21-26 October in Washington DC amid growing concerns over global...

Budgetary cuts, domestic priorities and personnel wrangles have dominated the early months of Britain’s new Labour government – to the detriment of its planned ‘reset’ of foreign policy....

The United Kingdom’s defunct ‘cash for asylum seekers’ deal with Rwanda could be brought back to life – by the EU.

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....

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 lieutenant of Jacques...

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 devoted just a couple of...

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 disinformation campaign targeting Africa,...

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...

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...

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...

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 during...

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. Previous FOCACs have...

One year after Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s dramatic demise, the legacy of his efforts to frame Russia as a liberator of Africa from western neocolonialism lives on.

Leaders are set to back a UN tax convention with a mandate to agree global tax policy on wealth, environmental levies and illicit financial flows at the UN...

Only 2% of Africa’s exports of energy transition minerals are destined for other African countries, according to a new report by the Publish What You Pay (PWYP) lobby....

The ambush of a patrol convoy of Russian mercenaries and Malian soldiers, killing over 50 Russian Africa Corps members, is the latest and most high profile of a...

The latest slew of lobbying contracts in Washington DC are offering cut price services for African clients. It’s not clear why. Some argue that the clients are pushing...

If, as expected, Labour secures its first stint in office for 14 years following Britain’s general election on 4 July, one of its foreign policy challenges will be...

Despite hopes of progress on climate finance for Africa at recent UN negotiations, an impasse emerged at the interim SB60 meeting held in Bonn, Germany from 3 to...

Africa was the focus of a three-day G7 summit in Apulia in southern Italy, hosted by a buoyant Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, four days after emerging as...

Wealth taxes and new global efforts to combat illicit financial flows (IFF) and enforce taxation of cross-border services are the top priorities of a UN tax convention in...

Despite hopes of progress on climate finance for Africa at recent UN negotiations, an impasse emerged at the interim SB60 meeting held in Bonn from 3 to 13...

Hopeful promises emerging from the Kenya-hosted summit for the International Development Association, the World Bank's soft loan affiliate, on 29-30 April have to be set against wider cuts...

Top officials at the European Commission say they have concluded talks on a migrant readmission and return agreement with Nigeria that could mark a breakthrough in Brussels-Abuja relations....

Plans to rename the CFA franc, the next stage of regional currency reform, were derailed at the last minute by the July 2023 military coup that deposed Niger's...

When United States' pharmaceutical giant Moderna halted plans for a US$200 million vaccine factory near Nairobi it dealt a double-blow: to Kenya's ambitions as a healthcare manufacturing...

Pressure is mounting on the European Commission to postpone the start-up of its tough rules blocking products sourced from deforested areas, including cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil,...

The strategy of the oil-fired Gulf States in Africa appears to be modelled on a foreign policy dictum coined by Ghana's founding President, Kwame Nkrumah: 'We face neither...

The prospect of deepening economic chaos in Egypt and regional shockwaves from Israel's war in Gaza galvanised European Union officials to finalise a €7.4 billion (US$8bn) aid package...

African officials and climate activists want to reverse the decision to host the Loss and Damage advisory network in Geneva instead of Nairobi. They met in Lilongwe, Malawi,...

The decision by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global anti-money laundering watchdog, at its annual plenary session on 23 February, to put Kenya and Namibia on...

By the time the final whistle blew at the Alassane Ouattara Stadium to signal the end of the 2024 Africa Cup of Nations (AfCON), there was unanimous agreement...

How are western states going to respond after losing a battle at the UN General Assembly last November over how global tax rules are negotiated? The European Union...

United States President Joe Biden will lose his main Africa policy advisor, as Judd Devermont quits his position as Biden's special assistant on African affairs. Devermont, who was...

Forecasts by the World Bank, IMF, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the UN that the continent's economies should grow faster this year should be set against its...