https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/nigeria-tinubu-military.jpgBola Tinubu’s new role as ECOWAS chair, and the coup in Niger, present an opportunity for a foreign-policy reset.
NPR’s A Martinez talks to the Miami Herald’s Jacqueline Charles about Kenya’s offer to send a thousand police officers to Haiti to lead a multinational effort to support Haitian police.
African leaders are leaving two days of meetings with Vladimir Putin with little to show for their requests to resume a deal that kept grain flowing from Ukraine and to find a path to end the war. (Image credit: Pavel Bednyakov/AP)
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Vladimir Putin is hosting leaders from the continent, promising aid and lashing out at the West.
As Russia wraps up its high level summit with African countries Friday, just how much real influence does Russia have in the continent?
US senators call on Biden administration to withhold $320m in aid over Egypt’s ‘deteriorating’ human rights record.
https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/RussiaAfricaSummit-GettyImages-1556781493.jpgFree grain promises to African nations aren’t enough to pull the continent to Moscow’s side.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/07/27/multimedia/27ukraine-russia-summit-1-tkfg/27ukraine-russia-summit-1-tkfg-moth.jpgAt a summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, President Vladimir V. Putin offered free grain as he sought to shore up ties with the continent. But lower-than-hoped-for attendance among African leaders hinted at tempering support.
Transforming the way food is produced on the Indian Ocean archipelago of Mauritius could help to fight climate change as well as accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to the UN’s most senior representative in the country.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/07/18/multimedia/00wwc-morocco-01-gtfq/00wwc-morocco-01-gtfq-moth-v2.jpgMorocco is the first North African and majority Arab nation to qualify for the Women’s World Cup. It’s hoping to pick up the baton its men’s team carried in Qatar.