April 27, 2020
…3.9 per cent of its GDP, Russia’s military spending burden was among the highest in Europe in 2019,’ says Alexandra Kuimova, Researcher at SIPRI. Volatile military spending in African states…
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March 16, 2020
…The expanded circle might include South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa in his capacity as the African Union chair, the EU’s High Representative Josep Borrell and others with influence in Cairo…
July 25, 2021
China may have no short-term interest in contributing to guaranteeing security in parts of a swath of land stretching from Central Asia to the East coast of Africa, but that…
April 9, 2021
…and convinced enough of his fellow African leaders that it was a purely domestic affair to prevent an African consensus position against the war. In turn, Africa’s inaction gave a…
October 24, 2020
…in the treatment of Africans and Afro-descendants in a wide range of countries and is reflected in the position of the African continent in the global hierarchy. Call attention to fundamental…
January 2, 2020
Like 2019, the new year and perhaps the new decade is likely to be pockmarked by popular protest, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa. The question is what…
June 9, 2021
…overwhelmingly by U.S. forces. The destruction of the Libyan state led to an explosion of Islamist extremism across France’s sphere of influence in Western Africa, where France also now depends…
January 19, 2020
…and east Africa. The inauguration took on added significance as rebel Libyan Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar, backed by United Arab Emirates crown prince Mohammed bin Zayed and Egyptian general-turned-president Abdul…
June 22, 2020
…lobbying firm Mercury Public Affairs, had approached Mr. Graham in March with the proposition that Turkey could serve as the United States’ gateway to Africa. “As we strive to move…
June 21, 2020
…chance of selling electricity to neighboring African countries. GERD is the centerpiece of Ethiopia’s bid to become Africa’s largest power exporter, with a projected capacity to generate more than 6,000…
August 26, 2020
…of endless wars in the Middle East and Africa, to the Trump administration en masse, the United States has been a leading incubator of Islamophobia. Globally, the crisis is manifesting…
April 1, 2020
…Africa (UNECA), and the African Development Bank estimate that many African countries are two to three weeks away from a massive outbreak of the virus. Addressing this challenge could require…
August 30, 2020
…continent, and brutally subjugating the enslaved African population.”1 The violent displacement of Native Americans within the territory that is now the United States began with Spanish settlers in Florida and…
November 11, 2020
…‘apartheid South Africa.’” In fact, the letter had likened Israel’s occupation of the West Bank to South Africa’s occupation of Namibia, which ended in 1990, and only compared the two…
November 12, 2020
…to a July report by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, a Defense Department research institution. In 2005, Burkina Faso didn’t even warrant mention in the “Africa Overview” section of…
August 2, 2021
…outsized contributor to regional stability by hosting the largest number of refugees in Africa and contributing the greatest number of troops to the African Union Mission in Somalia. However, Uganda…
May 28, 2020
…no further than that perennial war hawk Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. Given the lack of success of the various campaigns run by U.S. Africa Command, or AFRICOM, across…
April 29, 2020
…to recalibrate its Africa policies. The signs of France getting bogged down in West Africa abound. The French military’s mounting casualties in Operation Barkhane, which it started in the Sahel…
May 27, 2020
The Saudi-Iranian dispute may dominate headlines but a similar rivalry between Turkey and the United Arab Emirates is equally wreaking havoc in the Middle East and North Africa. While Saudi…
June 14, 2021
…the Gulf of Aden, and East Africa. Furthermore, it is easy to launch airstrikes into mainland Yemen from the island. The construction of the base violates Yemen’s sovereignty as the…
February 8, 2020
…peacekeeping in Africa, which only rarely inspire serious P5 rifts. But a brief survey of Council diplomacy on non-African issues – and even more contentious African questions – belies the…