EU leaders aim to further strengthen their relations with South Africa at the eighth EU-South Africa summit on Thursday, ...
After two high-level summits and series of ministerial conferences and several bilateral meetings over the past few years, Russia’s geopolitical influence has significantly risen and ...
Portraying China’s presence in Africa with flags on maps can distort African states’ sovereignty and their power to make decisions based on national interests. This visual portrayal reduces these ...
This ongoing geopolitical skirmish has major consequences. First, it further erodes regional unity and cohesion. West Africa is already the least homogenous zone on the continent, with different ...
But there is more to these developments than geopolitical competition ... ago to connect mines in Congo with ports in South Africa, even though the railway itself is now hardly used. As a result, a ...
Add to that the fragmentation of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and the region’s geopolitical map is being redrawn, with consequences that stretch far beyond West Africa.