For more than a decade, policymakers in developing countries in the Middle East and North Africa have been confronted with high inequality, low growth, rising poverty, and high youth and female unemployment. They now face

The greylisting of South Africa last month by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has made waves in the country, occupying substantial media attention. South Africa became only the second G20 country to have been

In the wake of reports of a Wagner Group plot in Chad, Washington should resist the urge to resurrect Cold War-era partnerships. Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Russia’s Wagner Group is working

Two West African states are repatriating their citizens from Tunisia following inflammatory remarks by President Kais Saied last week. Mr Saied said that migration was a “plot” to change the country’s demographic profile, blaming “traitors

A French court has dismissed a landmark lawsuit against controversial TotalEnergies projects in east Africa, which was filed by six French and Ugandan activist groups in 2018, using a 2017 law on multinationals operating outside

Burkina Faso has scrapped a 1961 agreement on military assistance with France, a move that comes only weeks after it told the French ambassador and troops supporting its anti-jihadist campaign to quit the country. The

‘Colonisation is an unhappy memory that pushes many people to revolt. ’French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting several African countries this week in an attempt to reverse his country’s waning influence on the continent as

A few dozen Congolese demonstrated Wednesday in front of the French embassy in Kinshasa to reject the planned visit of French President Emmanuel Macron, reports say. The protesters chanted “Macron assassin” or “Macron get out”,