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Vol 67 No 9 |

Brussels bankrolls the fight against Al Shabaab – but only just

27th April 2026

The EU has thrown AUSSOM a €75 million lifeline pulling the mission back from the brink after questions of US funding – but the money lasts only until June

EU foreign ministers have agreed to commit an additional €75 million (US$87m) to the African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission (AUSSOM) in Somalia, in a move that should...

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Vol 67 No 9 |

MOROCCO
EUROPEAN UNION

State-owned fertiliser giant OCP rethinks market strategy after Gulf crisis

20th April 2026

Rabat’s phosphates conglomerate has raised US$1.5 billion in a hybrid bond and is lobbying Brussels to rewrite EU rules turning Iran's war into a market windfall

The United States-Israeli-Iran war has handed Morocco’s Office chérifien des phosphates (OCP) a commercial and strategic opportunity. It has raised US$1.5 billion through its first international hybrid bond,...

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Vol 67 No 9 |

EUROPEAN UNION
AFRICAN UNION

Take back migrants or face tariffs

1st May 2026

Refuse to take back asylum seekers and economic migrants whose applications to live in Europe have been rejected, and we will impose trade tariffs on you; that is...

Vol 67 No 8 |

Berlin raises €1.5bn for Sudan but fails to rein in its warlords

17th April 2026

Three years into a war that has killed 150,000 people, the world's diplomats found it easier to write cheques than to name the Gulf states fuelling the fighting

More than 120 delegations met in Berlin on April 15 for an international conference marking three years of Sudan's civil war and raising pledges of over €1.5 billion...

Vol 67 No 7 |

After the Sahel rout, Europe courts the coast

1st April 2026

Expelled from the Sahel and estranged from Washington, the EU has signed its first African security pact with Ghana and wants Nigeria as an Atlantic anchor

Amid its fraying ties with the United States, the European Union is shoring up defences on its eastern flank and negotiating security deals in North and West Africa...

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Vol 67 No 7 |

EUROPEAN UNION
AFRICA

Kaja Kallas markets security pacts amid geopolitical chaos

23rd March 2026

Touring Africa, Brussels officials are offering help on counter terrorism and intelligence sharing

Ghana will become the first African state to conclude a defence and co-operation pact with the European Union on 23 March when the bloc’s High Representative for Foreign...

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Vol 67 No 6 |

Kigali threatens to stop guarding gas project in Cabo Delgado

18th March 2026

Targeted by EU and US sanctions, Rwanda says it won’t protect western assets in Mozambique without new funding

Neither side has blinked yet in the poker game between Rwandan officials and their counterparts in the United States and the European Union. A flurry of meetings...

Vol 67 No 5 |

EUROPEAN UNION
MIGRATION

Crossings down, pressure up – fearing the far-right, Brussels toughens laws

24th February 2026

Small boat crossings are falling fast but the EU is coercing African states to accept deportees or face penalties

The numbers look like a win for the European Union’s border policy – on its own terms, at least. Irregular crossings into the EU fell 26% in 2025...

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Vol 67 No 5 |

EUROPEAN UNION
AFRICA

Euro MPs quiz Brussels on Africa infrastructure funding

2nd March 2026

Pushed to rival Beijing’s Belt and Road scheme, the EU’s Global Gateway plan is coming under fire

The European Parliament has heavily criticised the opacity in the EU’s Global Gateway infrastructure investment programme, particularly the lack of clarity over where the cash for projects is...

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Vol 67 No 3 |

Rich economies turn off the aid tap

6th February 2026

Activists are demanding urgent policy reform and UN agencies are on the brink of ending many life-saving relief operations in war zones

Against the backdrop of heightening geopolitical rivalries and a sluggish world economy, rich western economies are ending many of their long-established aid – or Official Development Assistance (ODA)...

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Vol 67 No 3 |

Brussels gives formal support for Morocco’s regional autonomy plan

2nd February 2026

Ditching its earlier assertion that Western Sahara isn’t part of Morocco, the European Commission has signed a new deal with Rabat

The European Commission has given its formal backing for Morocco’s controlled autonomy plan for Western Sahara, in a major shift of the bloc’s diplomatic stance. At a meeting...

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Vol 67 No 2 |

EGYPT
EUROPEAN UNION

El Sisi draws in Brussels cash for security and migration control deals

12th January 2026

Cairo to host a regional security conference with the EU in March after last year’s successful investment conference

Egypt expects to receive the remaining €4 billion of a €5bn macro financial assistance package agreed with the EU in 2024 in three tranches before the end of...

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