Media mentions – Africa

Jihadist groups already control about half of Burkina Faso, a country the size of the UK, and Mali is not looking much better. That’s where asylum seekers are coming from

We have tons of different middle or rising powers backing different local actors across Sudan, Somalia, Somaliland and Ethiopia for their own geostrategic or economic ends

Outside of the stock market fibrillations, the fear is that Libya will run out of hydrocarbon revenues and that state coffers will be emptied, fostering instability and illicit economic activities

If those sponsoring the Unsmil UN mission in Libya fail to take control and create space for a new political process, Libya will continue to disintegrate on every front

The Emirates’ change of pace towards Africa is the tip of the iceberg of a broader phenomenon that sees the continent increasingly at the centre of global interest