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Is Bell Pottinger the Turning Point for South Africa’s Anticorruption Fighters?
At the crumbling Bell Pottinger, shock must still be setting in. Less than two years ago after the British PR firm agreed to a...
Read the new Journal of Rising Powers
Welcome to the second issue of the inaugural year of the Journal of Rising Powers. In our first issue, we focused a great diversity...
Why does China need a “support” base in Djibouti?
For four decades since 1949, Chinese government vowed not to send a single soldier abroad during the peacetime. This statement sounds credible because the...
Africa and the World Bank: Why it’s Not Too Late
African countries are in a developmental conundrum; they have seen economic reversals in the wake (and arguably because) of the World Bank and yet...
Macron’s global strategy in Africa and in the European Union
Both Chirac and Sarkozy had five minutes to leave power, while François Hollande could even have five months to do so. In fact, at...
Africans show interest in Russia’s technology
Acknowledging the huge untapped potentials in Russia’s industrial technology and emerging economic opportunities, a number of African countries participated in the International Industrial Trade...
Can the DRC stop the next Ebola outbreak?
Some unexpectedly good news came out of the long-beleaguered DRC on July 2nd, when the WHO declared an end to the Ebola outbreak that...
Sudan Seeks Closer Cooperation With Russia
F or decades, Russia and Sudan have maintained a strong economic and politically strategic partnership. And still, there visible and promising signs that...
Next presidential elections in Liberia and Macdella Cooper’s candidacy
O n October 10 next, elections will be held in Liberia to elect the President and the Legislative Assembly, as well as the...
China’s transforming Africa by the rail or off the trail
Authors: Joseph Ndungu & Wang Li A lthough China highly spoke of its first African built railway from Tanzania to Zambia during the...