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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is visiting Africa as part of a push by Moscow to strengthen ties with the continent. Russia aims to confront the West by building its reputation as a defender of Africa.

Reuben E Brigety II has been announced as the new US ambassador to South Africa.



Creative destruction - Bruce Whitfield talks to Dr Terence McNamee, Global Fellow of the Africa Program at the Wilson Center (US).

Creative destruction - Bruce Whitfield talks to Dr Terence McNamee, Global Fellow of the Africa Program at the Wilson Center (US).

The presidents of Turkey, Russia and Iran are expected to focus on the peace process in Syria, but the blockade of Ukrainian ports will top the agenda between Ankara and Moscow.

By addressing the questions raised by climate change, think tanks, including Carnegie, will be better able to help countries and policymakers through an enormously fraught, consequential, and complicated period of human history.

By addressing the questions raised by climate change, think tanks, including Carnegie, will be better able to help countries and policymakers through an enormously fraught, consequential, and complicated period of human history.

This Perspective proposes four strategic principles and six operational guidelines to guide the Coalition’s mission in Africa.

Hope for political solution in eastern DRC fades as fighting rocks Congo, Rwanda and Uganda. Can the EAC pacify the region?

LONDON: Tunisia was already contending with widespread disaffection when it announced its third fuel price rise (5 percent) of the year. But in the wake of a Ramadan characterized by images of empty shelves, ordinary people are concerned less with the state of public finances and more with day-to-day survival. Eleven years after the first of the Arab Spring revolts toppled a