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Africa : UK slowly fine-tunes new Africa strategy
10 hours ago · UK slowly fine-tunes new Africa strategy. The British government's new roadmap for the continent had been due before the end of the year, but it's now been pushed back to mid-2025. It will address security, economic growth and climate change. Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer 's Africa strategy, announced as one of the new British government's ...
Central African Republic/Sudan : Touadéra switches allegiance in …
10 hours ago · Touadéra switches allegiance in Sudan civil war. Fighting has been ongoing since 15 April 2023 between the two strong men of Khartoum, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the Sudanese Armed Forces, and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, aka Hemeti, the leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The open conflict is having a knock-on effect across the ...
Africa Africa on agenda at upcoming UN peacekeeping conference
1 day ago · 12/11/2024 05:40. Berlin will host a major conference devoted to United Nations peacekeeping missions next May. The future of UN operations on the African continent, such as MINUSCA in the Central African Republic and MONUSCO in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is expected to be discussed at this event. Several African ministers will attend.
Africa : Kamala Harris's African networks
Nov 1, 2024 · Paradoxically, Africa is not among the foreign policy priority regions set out by Kamala Harris's advisers, and yet the Democrat candidate expressed a marked interest in the continent during her vice-presidency. As the highest-ranking US government official to visit the continent in the last four years, the current VP has been a figurehead of Joe Biden's political and economic commitments to ...
Senegal Sonko's task force met privately to begin reviewing oil …
2 days ago · Sonko's task force met privately to begin reviewing oil and mining contracts. Created in August at the instigation of Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, the commission charged with auditing oil, gas and mining contracts signed during Macky Sall 's presidency met on the afternoon of 7 November in Dakar. The names of the commission's 20 or ...
Africa : African leaders lobby for AfDB presidency from Abuja to …
6 days ago · The search of the African Development Bank (AfDB) for a new president has leaders all over Africa working on their candidacies. The incumbent chair, Akinwumi Adesina of Nigeria, is to step down in May next year, but who will be his successor is still far from certain. Three regions are hoping to present a candidate, and closed-door talks are ...
Africa : African issues set to dominate Commonwealth summit
Nov 4, 2024 · African issues set to dominate Commonwealth summit. At the Commonwealth summit at the end of October, an African national is set to take the helm of the body's secretariat. Of the three candidates in play, Ghana's Shirley Botchwey, who enjoys Kenya's support, appears to be the front-runner. The case of Gabon, which has been suspended from the ...
Africa : Kenya, Algeria, Cameroon
11/11/2024 05:40 Reading time 4 minutes. Kenya - Nelson Amenya, the whistleblower taking on Adani. It is from Jouy-en-Josas, a small town in France some 30km south of Paris, where he is completing his MBA at the prestigious French business school HEC, that Nelson Amenya took his first shot at Adani. In July, Amenya revealed the Indian group had ...
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6 days ago · Your daily foray into Africa's circles of power. Africa Intelligence brings you exclusive coverage of the major political, economic and diplomatic issues at stake on the African continent, identifying power players on the rise and low-frequency signals on the horizon. Peruse our daily story summaries to get the scoop on tomorrow's top stories ahead of the crowd.