Eleven Japanese companies gathered in Accra recently to showcase their products, technologies, and business operations in Ghana, an event that Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Yoshimoto used to reframe the bilateral relationship in explicitly developmental terms. The central question the exhibition raised…
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has publicly endorsed the African Union’s demand for permanent representation on the UN Security Council, declaring Africa’s continued exclusion “unjust and indefensible” during his final opening address to the 81st session of the General Assembly…
President John Dramani Mahama used a side event at the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York to lay out a structured, three-part framework for operationalising the reparative justice commitments embedded in UN Resolution 80/250, the historic March 2025…
A Gulf state with no land border in Africa now sits at the table where the emerging global economic order is being written. That fact alone should concentrate minds in Accra, Abuja, and Dakar. The 18th BRICS Summit, held in…
New York, 21 September 2024 — President William Ruto arrived in New York on Sunday alongside First Lady Rachel Ruto and a Kenyan government delegation, opening a week of high-level engagements at the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 81)…
A quiet notice on the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s website last week rewrote, at least partially, the diplomatic ledger between Washington and Asmara. The Trump administration’s decision to remove sanctions against the Eritrean Defense Forces marks a deliberate recalibration…
A Shift in Development Architecture With Direct Consequences for West African Governance India’s development cooperation framework, encompassing concessional finance, technical assistance, institutional capacity-building and technology transfer across more than 160 partner countries, is reshaping the terms on which Global South…
When more than fifty young men were arrested near Borgu, in Niger State’s gold-bearing north-central belt, on a Tuesday in late 2024, the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps processed them as routine suspects in an ongoing crackdown on artisanal…
When Algerian and Malian officials sat down in Bamako this week to discuss joint investment in gold, lithium, and cross-border transport infrastructure, they were doing so against a backdrop that, barely six months earlier, had looked entirely different. The meeting…
What exactly did Guinea and Glencore agree to? A single deal rarely reshapes a country’s extractive economy. But the more than US$300-million bauxite pre-financing and offtake agreement signed between Guinea’s state-owned Nimba Mining and Swiss commodities giant Glencore last week…
