Wagner and Russia are here to stay in Africa, says Lavrov

PARIS – Russia’s For­eign Min­is­ter Sergey Lavrov has vowed Wagner’s oper­a­tions in Mali and the Cen­tral African Repub­lic “will con­tin­ue” despite the failed rebel­lion led by Yevge­ny Prigozhin, leader of the mer­ce­nary Wag­n­er Group. The para­mil­i­tary group has expand­ed its reach across Latin Amer­i­ca, the Mid­dle East and Africa in recent years and it has been…

Why China Is Investing in Africa’s Green Energy Future

https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000–0aff-0242-ca03-08db4bfabf5f_w800_h450.jpgA wind farm in Namib­ia and a float­ing solar farm on Zim­bab­we’s mas­sive Kari­ba Dam are among the new green ener­gy projects Chi­nese com­pa­nies are look­ing at invest­ing in this year after Bei­jing pledged to help African coun­tries address their ener­gy prob­lems with renew­able sources rather than fos­sil fuels.  “Chi­nese over­seas renew­able ener­gy invest­ments aim to…

Relations with Africa, Asia are on brink of collapse — to Russia’s benefit

Jérémy Lis­sou­ba is a mem­ber of parlia­ment for the main oppo­si­tion par­ty in the Repub­lic of Con­go. He’s also a deputy judge in the country’s High Court of Jus­tice and an alum­nus of the Oba­ma Foundation’s 2018 Africa Lead­ers Pro­gram. Over a year since the war in Ukraine began, the world remains caught in the…

Russia Sanctions a Boon for Chinese Arms Sales to Africa?

https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000–0aff-0242-ddfd-08db2729dc10_w800_h450.jpgRus­sia has long been the biggest exporter of arms to sub-Saha­ran Africa, but a new study indi­cates West­ern sanc­tions are mak­ing it hard­er for Moscow to sell weapons, open­ing the door for more Chi­­nese-made arms. Even before the Ukraine war, Chi­na had increased its sales of weapons to sub-Saha­ran Africa, export­ing almost three times as…

Opinion: Africa’s Long-term Development Depends on Africans

Edi­tor’s Notes: Julius Nyerere was an African vision­ary and pres­i­dent of Tan­za­nia from 1964 to 1985. Pre­vi­ous­ly he served as prime min­is­ter from 1961 to 1964. Nyer­ere’s phi­los­o­phy of Ujaa­ma and African self-reliance has often been cit­ed by pan-African­ists and schol­ars around the world. Benard Semen reminds us that Africans, any­where in the world, need…

Why Nigerian elections ‘will not be postponed’ — BBC Africa

The head of Nige­ri­a’s Inde­pen­dent Nation­al Elec­toral Com­mis­sion (Inec), Pro­fes­sor Mah­mood Yakubu, says that the Niger­ian elec­tions will go ahead as planned despite rumours of post­pone­ments due to inse­cu­ri­ty in parts of the coun­try. Nige­ri­ans are set to go to the polls on 25 Feb­ru­ary 2023 to elect a new pres­i­dent. Pro­fes­sor Yakubu spoke to…

At DU, Students Learn about an Early Warning System for Conflicts in Africa

The num­ber of con­flicts in the world today, includ­ing those that are tak­ing place in the African con­ti­nent, remains a cause of con­cern to many. Today the world has the largest num­ber of con­flicts since the Sec­ond World War. Some of these con­flicts are not just in Africa. They include the con­flicts in Ukraine. The cumulative…

Has America Lost the “New Scramble for Africa?”

Editor’s Note: In this piece, Keshawn Young argues that Amer­i­ca appears to be the “sore los­er” in the “scram­ble for Africa,” a bat­tle it is wag­ing against Rus­sia and Chi­na in Africa.  On Octo­ber 21, Unit­ed States Rep­re­sen­ta­tive for Minnesota’s 5th Con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict, Ilhan Omar, called out Amer­i­ca for its con­tin­u­ing strug­gle to estab­lish strong…