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From Strasbourg to Ouagadougou, a European Parliament vote has opened a larger argument about sovereignty, security and who gets to judge Africa
On the morning of 22 June 2026, Burkina Faso’s Foreign Minister, Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré, summoned Philippe Bronchain,...
Félix Tshisekedi may have opened the door to a third term. Congo’s constitutional debate must now be about power for its people and not a reset button for its president.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is not short of...
There are conferences that pass through the world like hotel air-conditioning: expensive, cold and quickly forgotten. Then there are conferences that carry the weight of centuries.
The reparations conference taking place in Accra, Ghana, belongs to the second category.
Officially, it...
There are political conferences that merely fill halls, pass resolutions and produce photographs for the evening news. Then there are political conferences that reveal the direction in which a country is moving.
The first congress of PASTEF-Les Patriotes, held in...
When the World Cup Stops Being Global
The FIFA World Cup calls itself the world’s tournament. It is marketed as football’s grand parliament of nations, a month when borders are supposed to soften, flags are supposed to meet, and the...
The image is simple, almost ordinary.
A plane lands at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport. Doors open. Protocol begins. Handshakes are exchanged. Cameras move closer. Officials smile with the practiced discipline of diplomacy.
But sometimes history does not arrive shouting. Sometimes...
There are moments when a country’s wound becomes so deep that it forgets where the enemy is.
A construction site in South Africa’s North West province. Men in work clothes. Contractors. Local officials. Activists. A confrontation over jobs. But this...
There are moments in global politics when power is not hidden in speeches, communiqués, press conferences, or diplomatic smiles. It is sitting quietly at the table.
That is why Africa must pay attention to two tables.
The first is the U.S.-China...
Africa’s ten largest countries are Algeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Libya, Chad, Niger, Angola, Mali, South Africa, and Ethiopia. But these are not just countries on a list. They are continental worlds. Algeria is bigger than France,...
The war in Mali is no longer a distant northern storm. It is no longer just the story of desert rebels, remote garrisons, and forgotten borderlands. It is creeping toward the arteries of the state. It is spreading from...
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