W.H.O Predicts Steep Drop in Covid Deaths in Africa in 2022

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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/06/02/multimedia/02virus-briefing-africa-who2/02virus-briefing-africa-who2-moth-v2.jpg The World Health Orga­ni­za­tion expects the num­ber of Covid-19 deaths in its Africa region to fall sharply this year, com­pared with 2021, the agency said on Thurs­day. The pre­dic­tion was a hope­ful one for the world’s least vac­ci­nat­ed con­ti­nent, though it reflect­ed a vast under­count­ing of past coro­n­avirus infec­tions and deaths in offi­cial tallies.…

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Will France’s Africa Policy Hold Up?

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Sum­ma­ry Dur­ing his first term, French Pres­i­dent Emmanuel Macron sought to revi­tal­ize his country’s diplo­mat­ic out­reach to coun­tries through­out Africa. Some aspects of this piv­ot were designed to more direct­ly address the lega­cy of French colo­nial­ism in Fran­coph­o­ne coun­tries. He also sensed that the grow­ing stature of non-West­­ern pow­ers like Chi­na has giv­en African counterparts…

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UK Plan to Deport Asylum Seekers to Rwanda Considered “Cruel”

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Fol­low­ing a recent agree­ment signed between the British and Rwan­dan gov­ern­ments on asy­lum seek­ers in the Unit­ed King­dom, sev­er­al inter­na­tion­al aid agen­cies report that some asy­lum seek­ers in the UK have gone into hid­ing for fear of being sent to Rwan­da. Under the agree­ment, peo­ple sus­pect­ed of ille­gal­ly enter­ing the UK would be flown to…

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But CAN the United States defend Taiwan?

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https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/TaiwanArmy_001.jpg?w=270 Pres­i­dent Joe Biden has yet again stat­ed that if Chi­na attacked Tai­wan to reuni­fy what Bei­jing sees as a rene­gade province with the main­land, the Unit­ed States would come to Taiwan’s mil­i­tary defense. White House staff has again fol­lowed up these off-the-cuff pres­i­den­tial com­ments with a “clar­i­fi­ca­tion” that in fact, strate­gic ambi­gu­i­ty remains American…

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The CFA franc zone: Economic development and the post-COVID recovery

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https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/shutterstock_1030129660_small.jpg?w=270 The CFA franc zone, which encom­pass­es 14 coun­tries in fran­coph­o­ne West and Cen­tral Africa bond­ed by French colo­nial her­itage and com­mon cur­ren­cy, is falling behind most devel­op­ing coun­tries in terms of per capi­ta growth, pri­vate sec­tor com­pet­i­tive­ness, gov­er­nance, human devel­op­ment, and pover­ty reduc­tion. Such chal­lenges have been exac­er­bat­ed by recent increased exter­nal shocks such…

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Marshall plan: US aid to rebuild postwar Europe – archive, 1947

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https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1ee27d722a97861f890890773b9d944a57ab2596/0_671_3000_1799/master/3000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c81a86b41979c9f42b8fd3cd99ee4c7d Mar­shall plan: US aid to rebuild post­war Europe – archive, 1947 On 5 June 1947, sec­re­tary of state George Mar­shall put for­ward the idea of a Euro­pean eco­nom­ic recov­ery plan to be financed by the US. See how the Guardian and Observ­er report­ed events Bet­ter use of US aid to Europe: “unite to plan…

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How Russia’s Wagner Group Is Expanding in Africa

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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/05/23/world/00wagner-explainer‑1/00wagner-explainer-1-moth.jpg Best known for its mer­ce­nar­ies, the Wag­n­er Group also mines dia­monds, spreads dis­in­for­ma­tion and props up auto­crats in an effort to grow Russia’s foot­print. Mer­ce­nar­ies are enjoy­ing a resur­gence in Africa, hired to fight in some of the continent’s most intractable con­flicts. Per­haps the most famous out­fit is the Wag­n­er Group, a neb­u­lous network…

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In Mali, a Massacre With a Russian Footprint

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BAMAKO, Mali — On the last Sun­day in March before Ramadan, thou­sands of mer­chants and vil­lagers filled the mar­ket of Moura, in cen­tral Mali, trad­ing cat­tle in a vast pen and stock­ing up on spices and veg­eta­bles in the town’s sandy alleys. Sud­den­ly, five low-fly­­ing heli­copters thrummed over­head, some fir­ing weapons and draw­ing gun­fire in…

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The Turkish gambit and the future of NATO

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Ville Kor­pela is exec­u­tive direc­tor at the Impact Inno­va­tion Insti­tute. Diana Mjeshtri is a pol­i­cy ana­lyst at Impact Inno­va­tion Insti­tute. Both are mem­bers of the Coun­cilors Pro­gram at the Atlantic Coun­cil. We cur­rent­ly live in a fun­da­men­tal­ly dif­fer­ent and much more dan­ger­ous world than we did pri­or to Feb­ru­ary 24. Ever since the begin­ning of Russian…

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