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Trade curbs and price spikes deepen food crisis

Big grain producers are imposing export controls and farmers face rocketing fertiliser costs

Without concerted international action about 400 million people, many in Africa, will face chronic food shortages due to disruptions after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, according to the latest...


Brussels eyes African energy as it bars Moscow

Pledge to wean the EU from Russia's gas by 2030 will mean changing policy and stepping up investment in Africa

The launch of the European Union's master plan for energy on 9 March was delayed for a week as the war raging in Ukraine forced officials to...


France moves out of Mali

European governments are rethinking military plans in the Sahel ahead of the grand summit between the African Union and the EU

African and European officials have agreed to move the centre for counter-insurgency operations in the Sahel from Mali to Niger but questions remain about how to manage the...


Brussels tries to reset relations amid pandemic fall-out

The Africa-Europe summit will announce shiny new investments but struggle to agree on security, migration and trade

Delayed for two years, the African Union (AU)-European Union (EU) summit on 17-18 February takes place as differences over counter-terrorism, pandemic policies and vaccine equity intensify. France, which...


The coup-makers win the first round

Regional and international efforts to bring the axis of colonels to heel have floundered due to hubris and miscalculations. The jihadist insurgents will be the main beneficiaries

Bamako's expulsion of France's ambassador Joël Meyer has set the stage for another messy post-colonial confrontation. Yet it is the refusal by Colonel Assimi Goïta's regime to accept...


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Brussels finds some friends in Nairobi

Trying to win over Anglophone governments ahead of their grand regional summit, EU officials have been offering deals to Kenya

The European Union wants to agree a 'strategic partnership' with Africa at a summit next month. Now, it has identified Kenya as a key target.

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EU offers new migration deal

Pressure for reform from African leaders and Europe's demographic deficit could lead to change in the 'Fortress Europe' policy

Ahead of next month's African Union-European Union summit, EU leaders propose easing some of the toughest restrictions on migration, moving away from the current focus on strict control...


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