Since news emerged in September that the government of Mali was negotiating a contract with Russian private military company Wagner Group, France and other European states have made the issue a focus
Andrew Lebovich is cited in an EU Bulletin Article on geopolitical competition in Africa
The coup was a terrible catastrophe but if there is any silver lining to be wrung out of it, I think that Hamdok’s calculus was that it gave him an excuse to disperse of the difficult people
Theodore Murphy comments on the deal signed between Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and General Abdel-Fattah Burhan
If Europe is to maintain this stance, it will have to urgently find ways to square the circle of maintaining fidelity to democracy and healing the split between the prime minister and protest movement
Theodore Murphy’s recent commentary on Sudan’s new political agreement is quoted by Politico
Sunday’s political agreement is understood as not even a return to the status quo but a diminishment of the civilian’s role to a junior partner
Theodore Murphy comments on Sudan’s new political agreement and the reinstatement of Abdalla Hamdok as prime minister
Neighbouring countries such as Egypt and the Emirates, as well as Saudi Arabia, have different relationships with different parts of that government which impact their position
Politically, this is a very complicated time for Burkina Faso’s president […]
The cost of inaction or too little action could be quite high, as the failure to begin implementing appropriate policies could result in dangerous social and political instability in the near future
In more general terms, the ruling reaffirms the EU’s “differentiation policy”, by which it is legally bound to exclude the territory of Western Sahara from all agreements with Morocco
Hugh Lovatt analyses the main effects of the European Union’s ruling declaring the trade agreements between the EU and Morocco invalid
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has demonstrated once again that the EU remains a community based on the rule of law
Hugh Lovatt writes on the decision by the CJEU to once again endorse the self-determination of Western Sahara
