The Tensions Behind the Trump-Ramaphosa White House Meeting
The backdrop for the May 21 meeting between President Trump and President Cyril Ramaphosa of South...
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How Pope Leo Will Approach Africa, Catholicism’s Fastest-Growing Region
Ebenezer Obadare is the Douglas Dillon senior fellow for Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign...
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Letter to a Young African
My fellow African: For some time now, I have been meaning to get a few words...
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A Political Breakthrough?
No matter what happens next, last week’s statement by the Northern States Governors’ Forum expressing “support...
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The U.S. Approach to East Africa and the Horn
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Sudan has been engulfed in civil war since fighting erupted on April 15, 2023, between the...
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Summary The BRICS group has become a major political force in the last two decades, building...
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Since last year’s massive Gen Z protest movement forced Kenyan President Ruto to blink, withdrawing an...
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On June 18, representatives from Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo initialed a peace agreement...
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As he marks his second year in the saddle, Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has not...
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