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News & Analysis | March 2025

West Africa. Winds of resource nationalism blow across the Sahel.

Following the expulsion of French troops from Mali, Burkina-Faso and Niger, the leaders of these countries are extending their pro-sovereignty policies to the economic sphere. Together with Senegal, they have embarked on a new policy of resource nationalism. One of the key figures behind…

Gambia. The enigma of three countries in one.
The lack of a government agricultural policy, the impact of imports, fishing agreements and climate change all have a direct impact on Gambians' diets.…
DR Congo. The fall of Goma and Bukavu: the beginning…
The fall of the capital of North Kivu, Goma and Bukavu the capital of South Kivu could mean the end of the Kinshasa regime…
Sudan. The role of Abu Dhabi.
The Arab country is among the major supporters of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) under the command of General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemeti. RSF…

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Afghan Women. Resistance Beyond the Burqa.

Afghanistan may be the only country in the world where, over the last century, the struggles to give and take away women's rights "have made and unmade kings and politicians." We will retrace this historic path of struggle by Afghan women, who continue to inspire new generations. The story begins with Abdur Rahman Khan, who reigned from…

Tarzi the revolutionary.

Mahmud Beg Tarzi, was the main figure responsible for the modernisation of Afghanistan in the first two decades of the 20th century. One of the exiles Habibullah welcomed was the writer, translator, and constitutionalist Mahmud Beg Tarzi, who had spent his youth in Damascus and would become the main figure responsible for modernizing Afghanistan in the first two…

The Victory of Feudal Power.

In urban areas, no one opposed the changes, not even the mullahs of Kabul. But in the tribal areas, Amanullah's measures, such as reducing the powers of religious judges, were seen as an existential threat. Rumours began to circulate that the king had converted to Catholicism, and photos of the French president kissing the queen’s hand,…

Afghan women today: invisible and imperceptible, but they still resist.

First, they were forced to cover themselves from head to toe, to see the world through a net. Then, they were banned from studying beyond the fifth grade, from working (even when they were their families’ sole breadwinners), from walking without a male guardian, and from going to gardens and gyms. They closed shelters for victims of…