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Africa Now - Weekly Newsletter (Week 52, 2023)

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How the Global South is rediscovering centuries of shared history to challenge Western domination

India’s engagement with Africa, backed by the common legacy of a colonial past, aims to create a true multipolar world....

Africa Now - Weekly Newsletter (Week 51, 2023)

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China’s de-dollarization message finds a receptive audience in North Africa

Earlier this year, three of five countries in North Africa—Tunisia, Algeria, and Egypt—applied to join BRICS, the loose affiliation of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, which...

Africa Now - Weekly Newsletter (Week 50, 2023)

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President Sisi’s third term will be his biggest challenge—not the upcoming Egyptian election

Egyptians head to the polls from December 10-12 to cast their ballots in a presidential election that analysts say is certain to guarantee a third term for incumbent Abdel...

Africa Now - Weekly Newsletter (Week 49, 2023)

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Global Insecurity and Evolving India-Africa Defence Cooperation

This institution, over time, educated a generation of Ethiopian military officers from several other independent African nations....

Africa Now - Weekly Newsletter (Week 48, 2023)

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Africa: China's Past and Present Ties with African Ruling Parties

Political analysts and opposition politicians in Africa accuse China of undermining the spread of democracy in the region by propping up entrenched ruling parties and promoting what Beijing sees as the...

Africa Now - Weekly Newsletter (Week 47, 2023)

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Can Africa Challenge China’s Stranglehold in Lithium?

If Africa wants to reap the rewards from its lithium industry, it must step up its game and learn to tame the Dragon. The flow and pace of the global energy transition may well be determined by the success of...

Africa Now - Weekly Newsletter (Week 46, 2023)

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Africa wants to benefit from its lithium boom: it must find ways to tame the dragon

For clean and sustainable energy in the future, energy storage systems are becoming increasingly important. And, Lithium-based batteries are anticipated to be the most significant...

Africa Now - Weekly Newsletter (Week 45, 2023)

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What Did the 3rd Belt and Road Forum Mean for Africa?

There has been much talk of a perceived slowdown in BRI lending, but African leaders are still looking to China to advance development goals....

Africa Now - Weekly Newsletter (Week 44, 2023)

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In Southern Africa, mixed feelings about the plight of Palestine Arabs

It is easy to appreciate why, in Southern Africa, attitudes of students, converts, veterans and sympathisers of what one can loosely term ‘liberation politics usually oscillate between empathy and...

Africa Now - Weekly Newsletter (Week 43, 2023)

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How India’s Vaccine Industry Will Save Millions of Children in Africa

On 2 October 2023, when India celebrated both Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri Jayanti, there was one more reason to celebrate this year....

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