Sub-Saharan Africa
African Union frameworks, conflict hotspots, China-Africa relations, and development finance geopolitics.
The Return of Pan-Africanism: Traoré’s Burkina Faso
The policies in Ibrahim Traoré’s Burkina Faso aimed at reviving Pan-Africanism through resource nationalisation, domestic industrialisation and regional alliances. By referring to the legacy of Thomas Sankara, this article examines whether these policies can achieve true economic sovereignty or i…
African Science Diplomacy: From Fragmentation to Integration
Africa’s scientific landscape remains fragmented. This brief explores how science diplomacy, research mobility, shared infrastructure and continental funding could build a more connected African research ecosystem.
A New Challenge for the DRC
Geographic vulnerabilities, a fragile healthcare infrastructure, community resistance, and a rapidly spreading viral strain with no previously approved countermeasures mean the crisis threatens to eclipse the devastation of past epidemics.
Sudan’s Forgotten War an Women’s Untold Cost
Sudan’s Invisible Humanitarian Crisis: Forced Displacement, Famine, and the Gendered Cost of Civil War Introduction This brief examines forced migration in sub-Saharan Africa through the lens of Sudan’s civil war. Since April 2023, Sudan has produced what the United Nations calls the world’s most…