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Vol 63 No 20 |

Geopolitical divides take centre stage at the UN

30th September 2022

New policy statements on Africa from Washington and Brussels are being measured against sluggish actions on debt and climate policy

Russia's war on Ukraine dominated the best attended UN General Assembly for years – much to the detriment of progress on preparations for the COP27 climate summit and...

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Vol 63 No 19 |

AFRICA
UNITED NATIONS
COP27

Developing economies step up pressure on food crisis climate finance

21st September 2022

Widening inequality and environmental devastation undercut chances of meeting sustainable development goals by 2030

The best guess by development economists at the UN General Assembly is that only two of the UN's 17 sustainable development goals will be achieved – both are...

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Vol 63 No 17 |

Rabat and Algiers cross swords over UN role

11th August 2022

Western Sahara remains in limbo while the two states tussling over it step up guerrilla diplomacy

The latest skirmishes in the long-running struggle between Morocco and Algeria over Western Sahara have drawn in the UN as they exchange fire over allegations of impropriety by...

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Vol 63 No 17 |

Fight over Africa’s fossil fuels intensifies

9th August 2022

Climate negotiators push back against AU plan for common position on gas and nuclear energy playing a ‘critical role’ in short to medium term

The African Union’s plan to ramp up oil and gas production launched at a preparatory meeting with national negotiating teams has triggered a row with climate experts and...

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Vol 63 No 16 |

EGYPT
MALI
UNITED NATIONS

Egypt adds to Minusma's misery

4th August 2022

Egypt plans to withdraw its combat convoy units from the Mission multidimensionnelle intégrée des Nations unies pour la stabilisation au Mali (Minusma) UN peacekeeping force in Mali on...

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Vol 63 No 10 |

AFRICA
UNITED NATIONS

The UN reports that food and energy crises are deepening due to Russia's war on Ukraine

10th May 2022

Spiralling costs of fertiliser and debt service are damaging agriculture and forcing cuts in health and education budgets

African states are facing 'a Catch-22 situation' as the war in Europe is driving up the cost of food and the cost of growing it locally, according to...

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Vol 63 No 8 |

Coal and oil producers want more flexibility on climate targets as energy crisis deepens

4th April 2022

Faced with rising food and fuel prices, developing economies call for more climate aid to help them adjust to the green transition

Africa, specifically Egypt's Sharm el Sheikh conference centre, is hosting the next UN Climate summit COP27 in November but the set piece arguments over finance and burden-sharing have...

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Vol 62 No 23 |

UNITED NATIONS
CLIMATE CHANGE

Developing economies frustrated by failures on finance for loss and damage and ambiguities over the transition from coal and oil to green energy

16th November 2021

Shortcomings in the Glasgow agreement will raise pressure on countries' and companies' commitments at Egypt's COP27 summit next year

African delegates to the UN Climate summit in Glasgow shared wider disappointments about the last minute weakening of the language on fossil fuels in the agreement on 13...

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Vol 62 No 23 |

MALI
RUSSIA
UNITED NATIONS

Bamako and Moscow defy Paris

11th November 2021

The Malian foreign minister's trip to Moscow will be read as a slap in Paris's face as the junta deepens relations with President Putin's government

The visit by Mali's Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop to Moscow on 11 November flies in the face of French government complaints about Russia's state-backed mercenaries and their allied...

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Vol 62 No 23 |

African delegations frustrated by summit's weakness on climate finance and Europe's levies on fossil-fuel exports

11th November 2021

Hardest hit by climate change but producing the lowest emissions, the continent is losing out in the deal-making in Scotland

Negotiators at the UN COP26 climate summit, which is due to close on 12 November, are racing to avert failure on its two main aims: to limit global...

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