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Vol 64 No 3 |

RUSSIA
AFRICA

President Putin's Africa summit in July will be key diplomatic test

26th January 2023

Foreign Minister Lavrov tours Southern Africa as Moscow wins more battles in information war with Europe and the US

Russian officials are confident that South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa will attend President Vladimir Putin's Russia-Africa summit due to be held in late July in St Petersbu...

Vol 64 No 3 |

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
AFRICA

Back into the Fund's embrace

25th January 2023

The IMF is at the centre of geopolitical rivalries and calls to reform the international financial system as debt pressures rise

The simultaneous but separate visits of IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to Zambia on 23-24 January point to rising conc...

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Vol 64 No 3 |

TRADE
AFRICA

Governance survey argues that slow trade reform and 'democratic backsliding' are hampering progress

1st February 2023

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation finds that gains in economic opportunity and human development are held back by bad politics

A decade of gains in education and health provision, as well as economic growth are at risk due to deteriorating conditions for security and rule of law as well as restrictions on ...

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Vol 64 No 2 |

CHINA
AFRICA

Beijing turns table on debt trap diplomacy claims

17th January 2023

On his January swing through Africa, China's new foreign minister has scored with subtle diplomacy, dropping the wolf warrior tactics favoured by some of his colleagues

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang's remarks that multilateral lenders and commercial creditors should carry the biggest blame for the debt distress of some African states comes as ...

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Vol 63 No 25 |

FRANCE
AFRICA
MILITARY

Can Macron's new Sahel strategy work?

7th December 2022

Rising hostility to Paris embarrasses regional governments as they seek French help to halt the southward spread of jihadist violence

It must have been with private relief that President Emmanuel Macron greeted England's 3-0 defeat of Senegal in the FIFA World Cup, thus sparing Les Bleus from a next-round clash w...

Vol 63 No 25 |

Push on pushbacks

15th December 2022

Italy's new right-wing government is at the centre of a row over illegal pushbacks of boats carrying asylum-seekers and economic migrants that could engulf the wider European Union...

Vol 63 No 24 |

ECONOMY
AFRICA

The great investment chase gathers pace

25th November 2022

The continent is attracting growing volumes of new money but they fall far short of its latest energy and development targets

The slow pace of investment in renewable energy in Africa should have been one of the biggest climate finance issues at the UN COP27 summit but was overshadowed by developing econo...

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Vol 63 No 24 |

UNITED STATES
AFRICA

President Biden hosts African leaders amid multiple crises

29th November 2022

At least 45 African governments are to send high-level delegations to the summit as US competition with China and Russia heats up

Africa's relations with the United States may not have been as badly strained by the Ukraine war as its ties with the European Union but Washington wants to use its US-African Lead...

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Vol 63 No 24 |

AFRICA
UNITED NATIONS
TAX

African nations win latest round on UN tax reform body

29th November 2022

Defying opposition from the Paris-based OECD club of rich countries, developing economies are trying to win rights for a greater share of global tax revenues

The United Nations has agreed to lay the groundwork for the creation of a new system of international tax cooperation by approving a resolution on 23 November to begin talks on est...

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Vol 63 No 23 |

Delegates haggle in Egypt as the planet burns

17th November 2022

African leaders argued for the continent's fossil fuels at the UN COP27 summit amid fierce debates over energy access and compensation for climate change

That the UN's climate summit in Sharm el Sheikh has been popularised as the 'African COP' owes as much to the strong African focus of the negotiations as to the location. Whether o...

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