The presence of American soldiers on the field is still strategic. General Michael Langley, the new…
01 Feb 2023
Sewing and fabrics speak of Ghana, not only for the millions of dollars that the sector…
01 Feb 2023
The wealth generated by the abundance of water has not prevented the increasingly vulnerable country from…
01 Feb 2023
The country has the ambition to become the world leader in batteries for electric cars. But…
01 Feb 2023
Elections in the most populated country of the continent, Nigeria, and the expansion of jihadism are…
01 Jan 2023
The cultivation and consumption of millet is a response to the challenges posed by population growth,…
01 Jan 2023
The outbreak of war in Ukraine showed that a conflict could begin in any moment. The…
01 Jan 2023
In 2023, Asia will be a continent of global uncertainties, regional trends and attempts at recovery.…
01 Jan 2023
Today the challenges multiply in African cities while their inhabitants have access to many more services,…
01 Dec 2022
Johannesburg or Joburg, as it is called, is one of the fifty largest cities in the…
01 Dec 2022
More than 300 African researchers have conducted research of considerable scientific and practical impact on variants…
01 Dec 2022
It is not recognized by any state, but, to all intents and purposes, it is independent:…
01 Dec 2022
Protests in Iran continue but, despite the brutal repression by the state, the determination of young…
01 Nov 2022
Whereas other oil producers are boasting from substantial revenues as a result of high crude prices…
01 Nov 2022
Cameroon, Morocco, Tunisia, Ghana, and Senegal will represent Africa in Qatar for the 2022 FIFA World…
01 Nov 2022
Can William Ruto, the new Kenya president, provide the change that Kenyans are demanding?
The General…
01 Nov 2022
Out of 55 African countries, only 18 produce gas, although 87 per cent of African production…
01 Oct 2022
Fierce superstitions marginalize those who have inherited the lack of melanin and sometimes endanger their lives.…
01 Oct 2022
The supranational institution has worked to prevent conflicts but has not achieved the expected results. The…
01 Oct 2022
By early 2023, controversial oil exploration will start in protected areas and world strategic ecosystems in…
01 Oct 2022
For thirty years, Yeyo wandered from plantation to plantation in southern Mexico. Undocumented, humiliated, and oppressed,…
01 Sep 2022
Cybercrime is spreading more and more on the continent, causing damage to businesses and people. The…
01 Sep 2022
Second only to water, tea is the drink most consumed in the world. Served hot or…
01 Sep 2022
Deforestation, exploitation of labour, including minors and the use of pesticides. All too often chocolate has…
01 Sep 2022
A rebel upsurge in Eastern Congo has led to a spectacular rise of tensions between the…
01 Aug 2022
Censorship, information regulation, isolation from the outside world. These are the new ways in which digital…
01 Aug 2022
Adopt a common political space strategy. Develop a constellation of satellites ‘made in Africa’ capable of…
01 Aug 2022
The country’s solar and wind huge potential coinciding with Europe’s need to diversify its energy mix…
01 Aug 2022
A new American bill is bringing back the cold war in Africa by summoning African states…
01 Jul 2022
She never once bought an ice cream. She never had a day off. She has always…
01 Jul 2022
At least 90% of African cultural heritage is currently outside the continent, mainly in European museums.…
01 Jul 2022
Three young African women from different backgrounds recount the story of their social commitment as they…
01 Jul 2022
The EU’s plan of an oil embargo on Russia and to reduce its gas imports from…
01 Jun 2022
A small people of Mauritania compelled to change their lifestyle to survive. They once lived in the…
01 Jun 2022
From Zimbabwe to South Africa and Kenya, Women Rangers are fiercely defending wildlife against poachers.
In their…
01 Jun 2022
The UK and Rwanda have signed an unprecedented deal to transfer asylum seekers to the tiny…
01 Jun 2022
Beyond the government's policy statements, the country will not start turning its back on fossil fuels…
01 May 2022
The oldest desert in the world: a sea of sand caressed by ubiquitous fog. It seems…
01 May 2022
Making the most populous city in the country an example of urban planning and environmental balance.…
01 May 2022
Islam must rediscover the tools of reason and the tolerance of origins. Thus, reopening the minds…
01 May 2022
The interests of multinationals often coincide with those of the leaders of some countries. Chad and…
01 Apr 2022
Three years after the establishment of the Guardia Nacional, created for the ‘prevention and fight against…
01 Apr 2022
Confronted with China’s growing influence in Africa, at the last AU-EU summit, the Europeans have come…
01 Apr 2022
The Indo-Pacific quadrant is now characterised by a significant military build-up in constant growth.
The protagonists are…
01 Apr 2022
It is the new frontier of the Google and Facebook Web colossi that will invest billions…
01 Mar 2022
For years now, tens of thousands of tons of electric and electronic material have been poured…
01 Mar 2022
France and the EU announced the withdrawal of their troops from Mali. The jihadists may reap…
01 Mar 2022
The ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp have become the main entry hubs for cocaine in Europe…
01 Mar 2022
In the context of the US military presence in Taiwan and US Navy incursions in the…
01 Feb 2022
After the victory of the left in Honduras and Chile, now attention is centred on Colombia…
01 Feb 2022
In the Mesopotamian swamps, people live in symbiosis with five-thousand-year-old waters. This treasure of biodiversity is…
01 Feb 2022
After the expropriations of the lands of the white ranchers during the Mugabe era, the aristocratic…
01 Feb 2022
On the last 19 November, President Joe Biden created shock and indignation among human rights activists…
01 Jan 2022
The slums surrounding the centre of Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, can be classified by their…
01 Jan 2022
This year there will be different hotspots in Africa. But two of them will have a…
01 Jan 2022
The return to the constitutional order in three countries hit by military coups, the downsizing of…
01 Jan 2022
As use of the Internet grows, so does the number of consumers who shop online. A surprising fact: the…
01 Dec 2021
The changes taking place in the sectors of new technologies related to 5G, internet, automation, robotisation,…
01 Dec 2021
The African crypto-economy has grown over 1200% over the last two years. Moreover, five countries in…
01 Dec 2021
The pandemic and the doubts of some countries have postponed the adoption of the Eco, the…
01 Dec 2021
The fight against climate change is now on the agendas of all major global political players.…
01 Nov 2021
More than one year has already passed since a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at…
01 Nov 2021
Over 50 years after the Biafra secession war, situation has become extremely tense in South-Eastern Nigeria.
Repression…
01 Nov 2021
The great climate migration has already begun. The number of people fleeing their birth country is…
01 Nov 2021
A year after the youth protests that shook the most populated country of Africa. The justice…
01 Oct 2021
The defeat of the US and their allies in Afghanistan is having consequences in Africa. It…
01 Oct 2021
Even though a significant increase in the numbers of those following Islam is expected, there are…
01 Oct 2021
Two scenarios seem analogous. But if both are characterized by long years of involvement of foreign…
01 Oct 2021
Despite the peace accord signed in Havana, Colombia is still caught in the crossfire between FARC…
01 Sep 2021
Besides lithium, another mineral occupies a central role for its use in high technology. China controls…
01 Sep 2021
The closest advisers of Tshisekedi are three Pentecostal pastors whom he trusts to increase consensus in…
01 Sep 2021
The pandemic is raging with fury in Rio de Janeiro, aggravating the ancestral problems of a…
01 Sep 2021
In the Wolof language ‘Barcelona or Death!’, as the route through the Canaries is often called…
01 Aug 2021
Heroin trafficking in Africa is growing in intensity due to the development of the ‘southern route’…
01 Aug 2021
Some African countries are on their way to becoming the main avocado exporters of the future…
01 Aug 2021
Short of water and housing, with spreading criminality and a pandemic that seems difficult to bring…
01 Aug 2021
In April and May 2021, two groups of French officers (both retired and serving) from different…
01 Jul 2021
As the security continues to deteriorate in Eastern Congo, President Tshisekedi declared a “State of Siege”…
01 Jul 2021
The 24 May coup against an attempt to reduce the influence of the military has increasee…
01 Jul 2021
A single ship lodged in the Suez Canal halted maritime commerce and caused a rise in…
01 Jul 2021
President Déby’s sudden death has left a huge vacuum. The stability of the country and beyond…
01 Jun 2021
In the north of the country, at Tamale, there are places where people who are victims…
01 Jun 2021
The nature parks of W-Arly-Pendjari, straddling the borders of Niger, Burkina Faso and Benin, have become…
01 Jun 2021
Forty years have passed since the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MDFC) began its fight…
01 Jun 2021
Agbogbloshie, in Accra, the capital of Ghana, is one of the largest waste dumps for electronic…
01 May 2021
Respected by public opinion and the international community, Ramaphosa has to fight against the various factions…
01 May 2021
Former President Laurent Gbagbo has received the green light to take back his role on the…
01 May 2021
The weakness of Somalia’s state has incited neighbours to make steps to tap its maritime resources…
01 May 2021
The Tigray conflict has dampened the enthusiasm raised by the Ethiopian Prime Minister and Nobel Prize…
01 Apr 2021
An interwoven series of criminal gangs, terrorist groups, traffickers of all sorts, networks of illegal commerce,…
01 Apr 2021
Antarctica enjoys an apparent calm, beyond the logic of power that involves the rest of the…
01 Apr 2021
John Campbell, a Senior fellow for Africa Policy Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, recently…
01 Apr 2021
In a spectacular turnaround, the former President Kabila who was still in control of the institutions…
01 Mar 2021
Maritime piracy in the Gulf of Guinea is a threat not only to the welfare of…
01 Mar 2021
The glowing coals give off a wonderful aroma: the smell of the incense fills churches, temples…
01 Mar 2021
The difficult journey of the Ethiopians of Jewish origin towards complete integration. Unifying music may help…
01 Mar 2021
In recent years, Tel Aviv has expanded and increased diplomatic relations with a growing number of…
01 Feb 2021
Like other continents, Africa is experimenting a spectacular spread of surveillance technology, mostly without adequate checks…
01 Feb 2021
The country is passing through a phase of instability, and the situation is gradually worsening. The…
01 Feb 2021
Those opposed to the regime of President Daniel Ortega have reported electoral fraud in view of…
01 Feb 2021
This year many African countries will go through a phase of instability and conflict. Some of…
01 Jan 2021
Ten years after the popular uprisings in North Africa, what has changed? What remains of the…
01 Jan 2021
Sales of arms and military services by the sector’s largest 25 companies totalled $361 billion in…
01 Jan 2021
Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest freshwater surface and a touristic marvel for its fauna, its landscapes and…
01 Jan 2021
The trade in human hair in the wig-makers’ salons is becoming a business worth millions of…
01 Dec 2020
Welcome to the Murchison Falls National Park named after its famous waterfall. George Atube, the ranger…
01 Dec 2020
A junior Canadian company will start drilling oil in the next coming weeks in an area…
01 Dec 2020
Large-scale cultivations are now a reality in a growing number of countries in the continent, driven…
01 Dec 2020
They are at the traffic lights, juggling their torches and coloured balls and performing acrobatics. The…
01 Nov 2020
The country is at the crossroads. Presidential and parliament elections are scheduled for the next 27…
01 Nov 2020
In September, separatist attacks took place in the Volta Region of Ghana. These events represented an…
01 Nov 2020
To build an alternative financial model. To employ profit-loss risk-sharing arrangements. To invest in solid assets.…
01 Nov 2020
The country is in turmoil. Jihadist violence risks tearing it apart. In November 2020 the country…
01 Oct 2020
Chokepoints are of huge geostrategic importance to the Middle East, where there are three of the…
01 Oct 2020
The continent has the highest percentage in the world of deaths in road accidents which kill…
01 Oct 2020
A soccer championship is useful in order to keep hundreds of young people of the Baka…
01 Oct 2020
After the crisis that followed the presidential election of 2010, the country is facing another duel…
01 Sep 2020
Located in the rim around the Pacific Ocean dubbed “The Ring of Fire,” the Philippines is…
01 Sep 2020
On 18th August 2020, a group of military officers took power in Mali, arrested President Ibrahim…
01 Sep 2020
The Suez Canal has always been strategically important for Egypt and the whole area. Before the…
01 Sep 2020
Almost all the African constitutions declare their adhesion to Pan Africanism in their preambles and many…
01 Aug 2020
After decades of distrust and hostility, the Somali brothers from Mogadishu, from the break-away state of…
01 Aug 2020
Sixty years ago, seventeen African countries became independent. Enough time has gone by to take stock…
01 Aug 2020
Cities built from nothing in the desert, vast infrastructure created, gold mines opened, arms and steel…
01 Jul 2020
The Jihadist movement continues its action attacking villages, destroying and burning houses, schools and places of…
01 Jul 2020
Since the ratification of the historic Peace Accord between the then President of Colombia Juan Manuel…
01 Jul 2020
The economic crisis amplified by the coronavirus pandemics, ongoing unrest in the provinces and divisions in…
01 Jul 2020
The "historical accord" between the United States and the Taliban, without involving the Kabul government is…
01 Jun 2020
It is not clear how or to what extent the COVID-19 will affect the international order.…
01 Jun 2020
The covid 19 pandemics has caused a recession in Africa which makes the repayment of external…
01 Jun 2020
The DRC which has faced frequently problems at its borders with several of its neighbours has…
01 May 2020
Over the last ten years, African military spending grew by 17%, rising to $41.2 billion in…
01 May 2020
One year after the General Election, the country still remains in a political crisis. The combination…
01 May 2020
The national elections that were scheduled for August have been postponed sine die because of the…
01 May 2020
International arms exports increased by 5% between 2015 and 2019 compared to the previous five years,…
01 Apr 2020
Africa which is already hit by several epidemics is now facing the challenge of the health…
01 Apr 2020
The presidential and parliament elections scheduled for the next 20 May are unlikely to put an…
01 Apr 2020
They share too many interests to engage in direct conflict over Syria. But there are many…
01 Apr 2020
The arms trade criss-crosses the Sahel region. To the north highly organised networks of traffickers operate.…
01 Mar 2020
It is illegal in just seven countries. In the continent it is an industry with large…
01 Mar 2020
After targeting the President’s son, the Angolan justice, it has frozen the assets of his daughter,…
01 Mar 2020
Being a small community, they try not to lose their own cultural identity. Motivated by a…
01 Mar 2020
Hundreds of street children roam the centre of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, living in subhuman…
01 Feb 2020
What are the implications of the assassination of Qasem Soleimani. U.S. Forces in Iraq at risk.…
01 Feb 2020
Existing and looming conflicts, “third-termism” and rigged elections are the main challenges.
The Jihadist threat, the leaders’…
01 Jan 2020
Syria and Iraq. The central role of the Russia in the region. The possible new nuclear…
01 Jan 2020
Eight countries, in all, are due to go to the polls to elect presidents or just…
01 Jan 2020
This year there will be several security hotspots around the continent. We focus on six African…
01 Jan 2020
Mogadishu and the Federal States are on a collision course regarding different issues, especially the management…
01 Dec 2019
Fishing rights sold off by governments to foreign companies. Illegal fishing and how it damages the…
01 Dec 2019
Environmental degradation will make the planet face up to challenges unknown until now. As a consequence…
01 Dec 2019
The drug-mafias have become experts in organization and logistical planning for the management of the dispatch…
01 Dec 2019
The 2,720 kilometre wall, which separates the areas occupied by Morocco and those liberated by the…
01 Nov 2019
In the Chadian region bordering with Libya, an area rich in gold,
we find a crossroads of…
01 Nov 2019
Xenophobic attacks against immigrants are causing a lot of damage to South Africa’s image across the…
01 Nov 2019
Tension between Pakistan and India in the disputed region of Kashmir. Against the background of the…
01 Oct 2019
A large oil and gas deposits off the Lebanese coast. Tensions with Israel. A massive immigration…
01 Oct 2019
Jihadist groups are expanding in Africa beyond the Sahel, from the Horn to Central and Southern…
01 Oct 2019
Abyi Ahmed Ali’s election in April 2018 raised considerable hopes in Ethiopia which he engaged steadfastly…
01 Oct 2019
Young people are taking to the streets defending democracy. Violence and arrest by the police. Beijing…
01 Sep 2019