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Where Ghana Stands In The Middle Of The 4 Coup Countries

In 2021, the EU and members states put in place new policies and processes aimed at supporting democracy. This Annual Review summarizes how and where Europe is directing these funds, and what are the impacts.

The EU is poised for a new era of proactivity in Africa. Simultaneously, Africa is being swept by demand for a new wave of youthful, job-focused leadership. The EU must seize the potential in this new kind of leadership if they are to successfully revitalise the relationship. Since assuming the EU presidency, France has made […]

A force of about 1,200 to 2,000 Wagner operatives plus a contingent of some 300 crack Rwandan troops prevented the Coalition of Patriots...

Russia has established a strong military presence in the Central African Republic (CAR) over the past four years, clandestinely using dubious actors like the military company Wagner, which is allegedly close to President Vladimir Putin. Wagner has become the deniable vanguard of a major Russian push into Africa, many analysts believe. Wagner, supposedly run – or at least funded – by oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, the man often called ‘Putin’s chef’, may already have ma...

Is the expanding presence of Russia’s private military company a legitimate cause for African concern? 

For about three decades, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta played different roles in Mali’s politics.

Who owns the Gulfstream IV plane that Alpha Condé, his personal doctor and two bodyguards boarded in the early afternoon of 17 January to travel from Conakry to Abu Dhabi?

Mali’s junta now finds itself ostracised by its regional peers – and at the centre of a dangerous new geopolitical game.

An instrumental figure in the mining sector under Alpha Condé, but sidelined since the coup, Alkaly Yamoussa Bangoura has just set up a consultancy firm dedicated to the industry.