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Grain and credit ratings at the heart of Putin’s plan

The President hopes to cultivate collaboration and unity at this week’s summit in order to defy western isolation and challenge the dominance of the dollar

Integration on financial services, along with a common rescue fund and a grain exchange platform are top of Russia’s wish list at this week’s BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India,...

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Austerity hits foreign policy reset

A row over shrinking aid funds will complicate the launch of the promised new Africa strategy

Budgetary cuts, domestic priorities and personnel wrangles have dominated the early months of Britain’s new Labour government – to the detriment of its planned ‘reset’ of foreign policy....


Making multilateralism work by other means

UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s Summit of the Future boosted reforms and delivered some wins for Africa

It bears the hallmarks of a grandiosity guaranteed to rile isolationists gearing up for the fight of their lives in the United States presidential election on 5 November....

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Financing a debt to nature

A group of countries is working on a joint conservation plan to raise $2 billion to protect coral reefs, mangroves and fish stocks in the Indian Ocean

A group of African nations is working on what could become the world’s first joint ‘debt-for-nature’ swap and the latest innovative solution on debt reduction and climate financing....

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 A web of disinformation

A nascent effort to set up a ‘Pan African Intelligence Agency’, led by the same group linked to the creation of the ‘Russosphere’ French-language disinformation campaign targeting Africa,...


Faulty funding

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...


President Macron plans military cuts

Phasing down security operations in West and Central Africa, Paris keeps its diplomatic and economic ambitions

Plans for a drastic pruning back of France’s military deployments in Africa could be confirmed within weeks as Paris adapts to the reality of widespread resentment of its...


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