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With geopolitics in flux, alliances are shifting. United States President Donald Trump’s attacks on South Africa, including the suspension of government programmes, the boycott of its G20 presidency, and claims of ‘genocide’ against white farmers by Trump...
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The unilateral ceasefire by the M23 announced days after laying siege to Goma in eastern Congo-Kinshasa did not mean an end to fighting in the Kivus. M23 and the Rwandan army are continuing to push towards Bukavu in Kivu-Sud. Shortly before Africa Confide...
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‘Our partners want more from Europe,’ the European Union’s new International Partnerships Commissioner Jozef Síkela told MEPs in the European Parliament at hearings last year.
In the case of Africa, they are unlikely to get it. Facing wars in Ukraine and ...
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17-18 February – Leaders at the African Union summit in Addis Ababa will choose between Kenya’s Raila Odinga, Djibouti’s Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf and Madagascar’s Richard Randriamandrato to elect the AU Commission Chair.29 May – Eight candida...
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Addressing the spiralling debt-servicing costs facing African economies will top the agenda of South Africa’s G20 presidency which started on 1 December. President Cyril Ramaphosa plans to launch a cost-of-capital commission to address the major dispariti...
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The abduction of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye in Nairobi is a chilling demonstration of the Kenyan government’s collusion with autocratic leaders. Besigye was lifted by Uganda intelligence officers in the evening of 16 November at an apartment ...
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Attendance may be sharply down at the COP29 climate summit which started in Azerbaijan this week, but the politicking in Baku still reflects the geopolitical faultlines between east and west and wealthy and developing countries.
One of the priorities faci...
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France and Morocco completed the relaunch of their diplomatic relations after the state visit by Emmanuel Macron on 28-30 October featuring an open-top motorcade through the streets of Rabat with King Mohammed VI. The visit saw the signing of more than 20...
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At a European Parliament hearing on 8 October about the humanitarian crisis caused by the civil war, EU officials and MEPs asked how they could raise media coverage of Sudan’s ‘forgotten’ war. It is a remarkable but accurate indictment and description of ...
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The threat of a widening war in the Middle East has dominated the attention of policymakers in the United States and delegates to the UN General Assembly – and ensured that Sudan’s civil war and humanitarian catastrophe will not get the attention it deser...