April 24, 2025
After the Second World War, the West established a moral and institutional framework expressing solidarity with the victims and survivors of…
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The West has ensured that “Never Again” does not apply to all. By so doing, it has left no choice to those who find themselves outside its protection, but to do what it takes to remain alive
This is no sentimental homecoming. It is a power play in a high-stakes game, in a country where such games often end in blood
A successful genocide denial campaign sets the ground for recurrence. In the case of Rwanda, the denial of the successive anti-Tutsi genocidal pogroms emboldened perpetrators and enabled a foreseeable genocide in 1994.
For many African countries, the U.S. is not an important export destination, which means the continent could well pretend there is no such country as the U.S. in their trade analysis and planning.
In both Zimbabwe and Angola, the economic, political, and social fallout from the second Congo war was severe, sowing long-term instability and governance challenges
Belgium seems determined to mirror France’s ‘exit strategy’ from West Africa
The current regression to protectionism is an acid test of Africa’s readiness to fully operationalise AfCFTA
France has overstayed, yes—but more damningly, it has miscalculated, blundering its way through coup after coup, betting on the wrong horses time and again.
The pursuit of narrow national interests in the context of an unstable region is not likely to produce sustainable peace
Strip away all the distractions, and the war in eastern DRC boils down to a battle between cows and minerals.
The West has ensured that “Never Again” does not apply to all. By so doing, it has left no choice to those who find themselves outside its protection, but to do what it takes to remain alive
This is no sentimental homecoming. It is a power play in a high-stakes game, in a country where such games often end in blood
A successful genocide denial campaign sets the ground for recurrence. In the case of Rwanda, the denial of the successive anti-Tutsi genocidal pogroms emboldened perpetrators and enabled a foreseeable genocide in 1994.
For many African countries, the U.S. is not an important export destination, which means the continent could well pretend there is no such country as the U.S. in their trade analysis and planning.
In both Zimbabwe and Angola, the economic, political, and social fallout from the second Congo war was severe, sowing long-term instability and governance challenges
Belgium seems determined to mirror France’s ‘exit strategy’ from West Africa
The current regression to protectionism is an acid test of Africa’s readiness to fully operationalise AfCFTA
France has overstayed, yes—but more damningly, it has miscalculated, blundering its way through coup after coup, betting on the wrong horses time and again.
The pursuit of narrow national interests in the context of an unstable region is not likely to produce sustainable peace
Strip away all the distractions, and the war in eastern DRC boils down to a battle between cows and minerals.
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