Vol 65 No 8 | SAUDI ARABIAUNITED ARAB EMIRATESAFRICAGULF STATES Facing neither west nor east – but forwards 11th April 2024 Unleashing tens of billions of investment across Africa, the UAE and Saudi Arabia are buying critical minerals and political influence 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 east nor... READ FOR FREE
Vol 65 No 7 | EUROPEAN UNIONAFRICA Fearing a regional meltdown, Brussels pays Egypt $7.4 billion 21st March 2024 Cairo's negotiators have astutely played the geopolitical card as EU governments respond to migration panic 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...
DISPATCHES Vol 65 No 7 | FRANCEAFRICA President Macron pledges to end to second-hand clothes trade 20th March 2024 An EU bloc-wide exporting ban will have mixed effects on African economies The French government's plans to push other EU countries to impose a bloc-wide ban on the export of used clothes could be another counter-productive piece of EU law. READ FOR FREE
Vol 65 No 7 | AFRICAUNITED NATIONSCLIMATE CHANGE Anger as Geneva wins Fund fight 28th March 2024 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, to agr...
DISPATCHES Vol 65 No 6 | EUROPEAN UNIONAFRICA Missing the trees for the wood 7th March 2024 Smallholder farmers could lose millions as Brussels enforces new rules to stop destruction of forests The EU's deforestation law is facing growing pushback from African states and the wider international community over fears that the compliance burdens imposed by the new law will b... READ FOR FREE
DISPATCHES Vol 65 No 5 | EUROPEAN UNIONAFRICA Carbon row heads to the World Trade Organization 28th February 2024 South Africa and India have accused the EU of using environmental issues as a cover for protectionism in its new CBAM African countries are set to raise formal complaints about the effects of some of the European Union's new laws on environmental protection and carbon at this week's Ministerial Co... READ FOR FREE
Vol 65 No 5 | AFRICAFINANCE Financial shades of grey 29th February 2024 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 its 'gr...
Vol 65 No 4 | FOOTBALLAFRICA Finding a perfect pitch 15th February 2024 Fuller stadiums and more goals made a successful African Cup of Nations – but its stars need more financial and political backing 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 that Côte d'Ivo...
DISPATCHES Vol 65 No 4 | NIGERIAECONOMYAFRICA US helicopter crash robs Africa of one of its most ambitious bank chiefs 14th February 2024 Access Bank restructures after the death of its founder who had been establishing a pan-African financial network Following the death of the founder and chief executive of Access Bank Herbert Wigwe in a helicopter crash on 9 February, its directors moved quickly to appoint Bolaji Agbede as the... READ FOR FREE
Vol 65 No 3 | AFRICATAX The next stage in the battle over global tax rules 25th January 2024 Plans for a UN authority on tax policy backed by African states are gaining ground in spite of western resistance 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 and Britain were...
