Regions Apart: How South Africa and Nigeria responded to COVID-19
Africa reacted rapidly and collectively to COVID-19. The AU, under the chairmanship of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in 2020, mobilised health ministers before the first case was reported on the continent, predicated by fears the virus would overwhelm fragile health systems and sluggish economies.
Lives or livelihoods
The coronavirus crisis poses new and unprecedented challenges for every country, in particular developing nations.
Tshisekedi and Kabila fall out
Two-and-a-half years after striking a political deal with his erstwhile political enemy that saw him being handed the presidency of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), an emboldened President Félix Tshisekedi has thrown down the gauntlet and is openly challenging his coalition partner, Joseph Kabila.
Russia’s Resurgence in Africa: Zimbabwe and Mozambique
While Russia’s relationship with Africa goes back decades, to the continent’s anti-colonial struggles, the past few years have seen a resurgence in relations.
How to get Africa out of debt
Many African countries were already in debt distress before COVID-19, and the pandemic has made it worse, lifting average debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratios from about 60% to 70%.
G20 and development
COVID-19 has turned everything upside down. The global lockdowns, the stresses on weak health systems, the absence of fiscal space and social safety nets, the downturn in the world economy, have wiped out years of progress in development across the developing world.
Nexus Between Food Security and Trade in the Run-up to the World Food Systems Summit
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the trade war between China and the US, competing paradigms on the relationship between food trade and security have become more complex than ever ahead of the UN World Food Systems Summit in 2021.
Rebuilding trust, reliability, and predictability
Most parts of the world sighed in relief when the outcome of the U.S. presidential election was announced—not only because the wait had been long, but also because the victory of Joe Biden signaled a return to a more civil, less shrill America.
‘China-powered’ African Agency and its Limits: The Case of the DRC 2007–2019
Does China provide African countries with ‘China-powered’ agency to challenge other external actors for their own political benefit?
SADC Futures of e-Mobility: EVs as Enablers of a New Energy Paradigm
The global energy landscape has changed dramatically over the past 25 years, but there are potentially much larger and rapid changes in store in the future.