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The Absentee Union

Two days of speeches in Addis Ababa skirted around harsh realities – the AU’s lack of independent finance and its failure to prevent conflict

As a measure of the dysfunction of the international system, the African Union has a special role, according to the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. ‘In a world...


‘Social justice’ off the G20 summit agenda

Trump’s exclusion of South Africa from the Miami summit shouldn’t deter other Africans from attending, says Washington

United States diplomats have told African governments and others planning to attend December’s G20 summit in Miami that if they want to continue to address issues such as...


Brussels pushes Global Gateway to rival US-China deal-making

Eurocrats will argue for more transactional policies at the Luanda summit to secure critical minerals. But can the EU’s cash match its ambitions?

Africa Union and European Union leaders insist they want to ratchet up economic security ties ahead of their two-day summit starting in Angola on 25 November, just after...


Brussels backs down on forest laws again

The EU’s anti-deforestation laws show how badly drafted climate policy can alienate everyone – farmers, traders and consumers

Chaos surrounds the European Union’s anti-deforestation regulation. Following a series of U-turns and carve outs, the law will not affect African farmers until June 2026, 18 months later...


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Mapping Africa’s future

The African Union is pushing for wholesale rejection of the misleading Mercator map in favour of a new Equal Earth projection

The African Union (AU) is urging the international community to ditch the 16th century Mercator map by endorsing the Equal Earth Wall Map which bills itself as ‘showing...

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