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Rubio deals hammer blow to US aid

An executive order from President imposes a 90-day freeze on most foreign funding – except military aid

Within hours of entering the White House, President Donald Trump issued an executive order for a three-month freeze on all foreign aid. This move seemed certain to result...

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Lower US interest rates will lead sub-Saharan Africa back to market

Despite current tighter financing conditions, Moody’s upgrades the region’s credit outlook to ‘stable’ amid reduced borrowing costs

Lower US interest rates will mean cheaper borrowing for African states, ratings agency Moody’s believes. The ratings agency has revised its outlook on sub-Saharan Africa’s sovereign credit to...

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Macron tilts to Anglophone Africa after Sahelian exits

After a spate of reverses in the region, the French President is boosting ties with Ghana and Nigeria

One data point sums up the commercial stakes: there are more French companies in Nigeria than there are in the rest of West Africa. It also painted the...


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Assad’s exit could push Russia into Haftar’s arms

The fall of the Syrian regime impacts Moscow’s operations in Libya and North Africa, with think tanks predicting new Russian bases disrupting European energy supplies

The collapse of Bashar al Assad’s dictatorship in Syria could have major implications for Russia, whose naval base in Tartus on the Mediterranean Sea coast provided logistical support...

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Biden leaves behind a Lobito Corridor of uncertainty

The president’s visit to Africa shows Washington’s geopolitical rivals – the railway project will be using Chinese-made locomotives and moving Chinese-mined minerals

The big announcement of Joe Biden’s first and last United States presidential visit to Africa instead underscored Washington’s severely diminished influence on the continent.

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Brussels gets a new Africa corps

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...


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