Developments in Paperless Trade: Implications for Zambia’s Small-Scale Cross-Border Traders
The Trade Facilitation Agreement is an important regulatory framework designed to promote efficiency and predictability in international trade, specifically with respect to the clearance, release and movement of goods.
Can Kinshasa’s changing relations mark a new chapter for eastern DRC?
Since President Tshisekedi took office in 2019, the Congo’s relations with key neighbours have changed significantly.
Africa’s Restoration Economy: Insights from South Africa’s Wetlands
Across Africa, people are looking for hope, opportunity and security in the face of growing threats to society and the natural resource base on which we all depend.
G7 summit: SA can help strengthen climate diplomacy
South Africa could be part of a global collective strategy to retire coal within developing economies. SA, together with India, South Korea and Australia, will be a guest at the G7 Leaders’ Summit this week.
100 Seconds to Midnight: What Could be Done to Bolster Nuclear Disarmament Globally?
This policy briefing assesses the current state of global nuclear disarmament against the background of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ adjusting its Doomsday Clock to 100 seconds to midnight on 23 January 2020, as well as the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Sub-Saharan Africa’s Agriculture and COVID-19: How the Pandemic Will (re)Shape Food Markets
The COVID-19 pandemic has put the global food system under sustained pressure and has triggered various policy responses to manage both supply and demand.
Beyond post–genocide Rwanda
Beyond post–genocide Rwanda Michela Wrong’s latest book, ‘Do Not Disturb, the Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad’, is the story of just how far President Paul Kagame will go to control Rwanda’s postgenocide image and why it must be protected at all costs
Conservation Finance Options to Support African Post-2020 Biodiversity Priorities
Globally, we are in the midst of an unprecedented environmental crisis, in particular of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation (the biodiversity crisis) and the compounding climate change crisis.
Convergence and Divergence in Emerging Donor Finance: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and Indian Exim Banks in Ethiopia
The increased prominence of new and emerging donors in Africa has captivated scholarly and public policy attention. Most scholarship has focused on analyzing the developmental (or anti-developmental) outcomes associated with non—Western influence.
L’agentivité africaine « alimentée par la Chine » et ses limites : Le cas de la RDC 2007-2019
La Chine fournit-elle aux pays africains une agentivité – ou capacité d’action – « alimentée par la Chine » pour défier d’autres acteurs extérieurs dans leur propre intérêt politique ? Ce fut le cas en République démocratique du Congo (RDC) de 2007 à 2009.