In February 2025, African heads of state gathered in Addis Ababa to announce a bold challenge to the global financial order: the continent will launch its own credit rating agency. The move follows years of mounting frustration over the penalty African countries pay due to systematically higher borrowing rates compared to their peers in Asia […]
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Since the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) captured the city of El Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur region on October 27th, there have been horrific reports of widespread atrocities, including killings in hospitals and mass burials, and satellite imagery shows the streets stained with blood. Thousands remain trapped in the city, and the UN has confirmed famine […]
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This year’s High-Level Week of the UN General Assembly, marking the organization’s 80th anniversary, underscored a growing legitimacy crisis in global development. Deep cuts to official development assistance by wealthy countries, particularly the United States, have triggered a broader reckoning over the credibility of the aid system itself. What was once portrayed as partnership is […]
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Africa is taking on increasing geostrategic importance in the evolving global order. The dispersion of power away from a hegemonic, Western core, heightened geopolitical tensions, and growing contestation over values have brought to the fore questions about the constitution of this order and the role of various actors in shaping it. Traditionally, discourse about Africa’s […]
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The current state of “no war no peace” in northern Ethiopia seems to be preserved only by the rainy season’s predictable afternoon showers and relatively chill air. Tigrayans are making anxious preparations—“stocking up on emergency supplies and withdrawing their savings from the bank”—before the rainy season winds down.The Pretoria Agreement, signed in November 2022, silenced […]
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The New Agenda for Peace provides an opening for continental actors to advance priorities at the global level. However, this requires the AU to deliver on revamping its own multilateral system as a springboard to reforming global multilateralism.
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The UN should create a new strategic moment to influence Mali’s trajectory positively.
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Complex threats in places like the Sahel, Lake Chad Basin, Somalia, eastern DRC, and Northern Mozambique have led to ad-hoc security arrangements becoming a growing norm.
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The conflict has been propped up by blame games, ineffective diplomacy, recurring geopolitical tensions and proxy warfare in the Great Lakes region, and the Congolese state’s weak commitment to addressing grievances that drive armed group proliferation.
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Ten years after MINUSMA was established, the mission’s future is more uncertain than ever.
