Tag: africa

• Pompeo in Senegal: Africa caught in US-China trade war

  February 17, 2020

  Mike Pompeo has arrived in Senegal on his first trip to Africa as US secretary of state. He is expected to discuss security and economic cooperation with President Macky Sall.… more ›

• Russia Exerts Growing Influence in Africa, Worrying Many in the West

  January 29, 2020

  The Kremlin is increasing arms sales, security pacts and training programs as the American defense secretary weighs withdrawing troops from the continent. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/world/africa/russia-africa-troops.html more ›

• Revealed: how Angolan ruler’s daughter used her status to build $2bn empire

  January 19, 2020

  The complex financial schemes that helped Africa’s richest woman amass a fortune at vast cost to the Angolan state can be revealed for the first time after a huge leak… more ›

• Facing Trump’s asylum limits, refugees from as far as Africa languish in a Mexican camp

  December 8, 2019

  As they wait on the muddy bank near Del Rio, Texas, to surrender themselves to the Border Patrol, the voices of children in the group carry across the river to… more ›

• L’Afrique au risque d’un Brexit sans accord

  November 21, 2019

  Le nouveau premier ministre britannique Boris Johnson à Berlin, le 21 août 2019. Axel Schmidt / REUTERSAlors que grandit le risque d’une sortie du Royaume-Uni de l’Union européenne (UE) sans… more ›

• How colonial rule committed Africa to fragile authoritarianism

  November 4, 2019

  The impact of colonial rule on sub-Saharan Africa continues to be the subject of intense debate and controversy. Barely a year goes by in the UK without a public figure… more ›

• ‘A New Message’: Russia Trains Its Propaganda Machine on Africa

  October 30, 2019

  Many of the players who drove Moscow’s campaign for influence in the West are now backing Putin’s African charm offensive. SOCHI, Russia — Jose Matemulane said he left his native… more ›

• Can Egypt and Ethiopia resolve their dispute over water?

  October 26, 2019

  Water is often said to be the source of life, and it is increasingly becoming the source of conflict in various parts of the world. The building of the largest… more ›

• Superyachts and private jets: spending of corrupt super-rich revealed

  October 24, 2019

  The multimillion pound spending habits of corrupt members of the global super-rich – including 421 luxury homes, three superyachts, seven private jets as well as elite private school fees and… more ›

• ‘Only we can change things’: life in the gang-ridden other side of Cape Town

  October 21, 2019

  Marcelliano Reitz, lean and toothless, rolls up his sleeve. The sun is setting behind the world-famous silhouette of Table Mountain. A plane on its way to Cape Town’s international airport… more ›