Africa

Russia ready to restore cooperation with African countries

R ussian president Vladimir Putin has reiterated some aspects of Russia's foreign policy agenda with Africa in speech delivered on November 9, when...

Imaging the Future: A Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe

In August 2016, amidst anti-government protest, President Robert Gabriel Mugabe made it inescapably clear that there will be no Arab Spring in Zimbabwe. The...

Why Africa united to fight illegal fishing

Earlier this month, over 40 African Union (AU) nations signed a binding agreement to curb piracy and other maritime crime on the continent’s coastlines....

Tools and tactics to engage Africa

Despite conflicts and instability in parts, Africa’s fast growth and development, at least during the past decade, has attracted external countries mainly from Asian...

Africa and the possibilities of Russian partnership

For more than two decades, Russia has been struggling to regain its Soviet-era economic influence, but such efforts have hit stumbling blocks which policy...

The lessons from the elections and the way forward for the ANC and the South Africa

The municipality elections were held in South Africa on August 3 2016. The African National Congress (ANC) which had emerged from the post-apartheid regime...

Assessing Russia’s Relationship With Africa

Over the past two decades, Russia's efforts to regain its Soviet-era influence in Africa have achieved little success because "times have changed significantly, for...

Africa’s Growth Story Is Only Beginning

Falls in economic growth rates do not spell the end of the “Africa Rising” story, but rather provide an opportunity for countries on the...

5 Scenarios for South Sudan

On 22 January, just over 25 months after the start of the civil war in South Sudan, the scheduled formation of the Transitional Government...

Unrest in Burundi

In Bujumbura, which is the capital of the east Africa country of Burundi, residents woke up on Saturday 12th December to at least 39...

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