DISPATCHES Vol 66 No 5 | RWANDAEUROPEAN UNION Suspending defence cash, Brussels edges towards sanctions 25th February 2025 Under growing pressure, European foreign ministers review Kigali’s minerals agreement The European Union moved closer to sanctioning Rwanda on 24 February after the bloc’s foreign ministers agreed to suspend defence cooperation with Kigali and put the controversial agreement... READ FOR FREE
DISPATCHES Vol 66 No 4 | SOUTH AFRICAEUROPEAN UNION Brussels offers hand of friendship 18th February 2025 The hostility of the Trump presidency towards Ramaphosa’s government, has given Europe an opportunity to strengthen its ties with Pretoria EU High Representative on Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas will hold talks with President Cyril Ramaphosa and ministers on 19 February, ahead of a G20 foreign ministers meeting the... READ FOR FREE
Vol 66 No 3 | RWANDAEUROPEAN UNION Mineral riches 7th February 2025 The European Union’s desperation to catch up with China’s mineral access is so great that it is willing to overlook evidence of mineral smuggling by M23 in eastern...
Vol 66 No 2 | EUROPEAN UNIONAFRICAMIGRATION Accentuate the innovative 23rd January 2025 A severe bout of pneumonia put a hold on European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s plans to visit Morocco last week, but nothing it appears can halt...
Vol 65 No 25 | EUROPEAN UNIONAFRICA Brussels gets a new Africa corps 12th December 2024 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...
Vol 65 No 24 | EUROPEAN UNIONAFRICA Africa could lose out from bid to rewrite Europe’s deforestation rules 20th November 2024 EU lawmakers have brought in wide-ranging exemptions to the forestry laws but few African states will benefit 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...
Vol 65 No 23 | RWANDAEUROPEAN UNION The price of minerals 14th November 2024 The EU’s difficult relations with Rwanda were exposed last week when a series of MEPs demanded that Brussels’s minerals deal with Kigali be re-opened or scrapped because of...
Vol 65 No 21 | EUROPEAN UNIONAFRICA Fortress EU within and without 17th October 2024 The United Kingdom’s defunct ‘cash for asylum seekers’ deal with Rwanda could be brought back to life – by the EU.
Vol 65 No 20 | EUROPEAN UNIONAFRICA Von der Leyen’s latest team lacks Africa vision 1st October 2024 Migration control, Global Gateway spending and critical minerals will dominate the new commissioners’ agenda 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...
Vol 65 No 20 | EUROPEAN UNIONAFRICA Faulty funding 3rd October 2024 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...