African Union

Sudan’s forgotten civil war has killed at least 150,000 and displaced nearly 13 million. Understanding its political details is key to tracing the causes and potential solutions to the conflict.

Despite having ‘everything necessary to become a powerful, modern, industrialised continent’, in the words of former Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah, the African continent has been plagued by Western intervention in the form of coups, structural…

The third issue explores the contemporary relationship between China and Africa, with a particular focus on how China can support African efforts to industrialise.

From the mid-nineteenth century, most countries of the Africa’s Sahel came under French colonial rule. Today, neocolonial structures maintain French domination in the region. Each time the people of the Sahel have risen, they have…

Military coups in Niger and other Sahel countries represent broad, discarded sections of the population. Now, France and other Western countries are pushing for a military intervention in Niger, however, the people cry ‘La France,…

Dossier no. 63 explores the origins of the debt crisis in Africa, exposing the Western financial chokehold as its source and exploring what alternatives can be built.

This dossier analyses the growing fragility of the US-led ‘rules-based international order’ and examines the possibilities of regionalism to advance the construction of a new global system.

The new US foreign policy strategy for Africa featured 10 mentions of China and Russia combined but did not once mention the term ‘sovereignty’. Meanwhile, at its annual summit NATO named Africa as part of…

Europe is wracked by instability as the war in Ukraine has exacerbated the region’s fragile energy situation and heads of government have been forced to resign in Italy, Bulgaria, Estonia, and the United Kingdom. Meanwhile,…

The enduring presence of foreign military bases in Africa continues to fragment and weaken African state institutions, prevent African unity and sovereignty, and subordinate the aspirations of the continent for pan-African consolidation.