DISPATCHES Vol 64 No 4 | EUROPEAN UNIONAFRICAN UNION Cuts in aid and trade on table as European leaders mull tougher action on migration 7th February 2023 As right wing anti-immigrant parties gain ground in Europe, Brussels is trying to balance its internal tensions with a more coherent Africa policy European Union leaders are to use a special summit on 9 February to find new ways to organise the return of unauthorised migrants from Africa and the Middle... READ FOR FREE
Vol 64 No 4 | EUROPEAN UNION Fortress Europe 16th February 2023 EU leaders adopted their toughest stance yet on migration at the special summit in Brussels on 9-10 February, threatening to suspend aid, tariff-free trade and visa access to...
DISPATCHES Vol 64 No 3 | MOROCCOEUROPEAN UNION Qatargate probe turns the heat on Rabat 24th January 2023 Belgium's judicial investigation into the bribery of European politicians is going beyond Qatar to include Morocco It is the biggest probe into corruption in the European Union for over two decades and centres on claims that Qatar and Morocco bought influence in the European... READ FOR FREE
Vol 64 No 2 | UNITED STATESEUROPEAN UNIONAFRICA IN 2023 Grand ambitions, little money 11th January 2023 After the summits in Brussels and Washington, their big promises will be tested on debt, trade and investment this year For many of the delegates who travelled to Washington DC for the United States-African leaders' summit on 13-15 December, the first such gathering in eight years, it was...
DISPATCHES Vol 64 No 2 | BURKINA FASOEUROPEAN UNIONSAHEL More European diplomatic dominoes fall as French ambassador is expelled from Ouagadogou 10th January 2023 The military juntas in the Sahel are sidelining Europe's efforts on security in favour of Moscow's forces When Burkina Faso's junta expelled France's ambassador, Luc Hallade, last week it reinforced the sense of failure of Europe's diplomatic and security policy in the region. READ FOR FREE
Vol 63 No 25 | EUROPEAN UNIONAFRICAMIGRATION 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.
DISPATCHES Vol 63 No 24 | ALGERIARUSSIAEUROPEAN UNION Moscow mounts a military show in the desert 22nd November 2022 President Tebboune's anti-terror mission with Russian forces unsettles Morocco and European governments Sending some important diplomatic signals, Algeria's joint anti-terrorist drills with Russian troops – known as Desert Shield 2022 – in the Bechar region near the border with Morocco... READ FOR FREE
Vol 63 No 24 | EUROPEAN UNIONAFRICAN UNION Geopolitical fault lines 1st December 2022 The United States wants to use its US-African leaders' summit in Washington DC from 13-15 December to reboot its relations with the continent and reports that over 45...
DISPATCHES Vol 63 No 23 | EUROPEAN UNIONEAST AFRICA Kampala gets Brussels to U-turn on oil pipeline ban 8th November 2022 At a joint parliamentary summit in Maputo, Ugandan negotiators won the policy argument but doubts linger about the pipeline's viability On the eve of the UN's COP 27 Climate summit, European parliament MPs dropped their opposition to Uganda's and Tanzania's oil pipeline project at the Joint Parliamentary Assembly... READ FOR FREE
DISPATCHES Vol 63 No 20 | TANZANIAUGANDAEUROPEAN UNION African leaders warn on climate talks failure at UN General Assembly 28th September 2022 Gap widens ahead of COP27 on finance and carbon targets between rich and developing economies The first week of speeches at the UN General Assembly augured badly for progress at the UN's COP27 Climate summit in Sharm el Sheikh with leaders from the... READ FOR FREE