Biden’s Africa strategy seeks to revitalize ties with the continent

Around the World, Brookings InstitutionLeave a comment

Pres­i­dent Biden is deliv­er­ing on his com­mit­ment to make Africa a pri­or­i­ty for the Unit­ed States.  Most notable is his administration’s sharp uptick in U.S. diplo­ma­cy toward the region. With vis­its to Kenya, Nige­ria, and Sene­gal last Novem­ber, Moroc­co and Alge­ria in March, and South Africa, the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Repub­lic of the Con­go, and Rwan­da this…

The day Tunisia’s democracy died

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As for why so many Tunisian sec­u­lar­ists and liberals—who might have oth­er­wise been expect­ed to defend democracy—found them­selves tempt­ed by Saied’s strong­man rou­tine, part of the expla­na­tion lies in the Mid­dle East­’s long­stand­ing demo­c­ra­t­ic dilem­ma. Appre­ci­at­ing democ­ra­cy in the­o­ry is dif­fer­ent than lik­ing its out­comes in prac­tice. In Tunisia, as in much of the rest…

New tools for easing cross-border trade in Africa

African News Review, Brookings Institution, Business and Finance, Business and Investment, East Africa, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Mike Ogbalu, CEO of the Pan-African Pay­ment Set­tle­ment Sys­tem (PAPSS) at the African Export-Import Bank, dis­cuss­es PAPSS, a cross bor­der, finan­cial mar­ket infra­struc­ture enabling pay­ment trans­ac­tions across Africa. Relat­ed Con­tent Fore­sight Africa pod­cast is part of the Brook­ings Pod­cast Net­work. Sub­scribe and lis­ten on Apple, Spo­ti­fy, and wher­ev­er you lis­ten to pod­casts. Send feed­back email to podcasts@brookings.edu, and…