Brussels 05.09.2025 Aid workers on donkeys have delivered the first humanitarian supplies to survivors of a landslide that reportedly killed hundreds of people in a remote mountain village in Sudan’s western Darfur region. Today, Save the Children’s emergency team reached Tarsin village in Darfur—cut off by a deadly landslide—after almost ten-hour journey on donkeys through…
Category: Africa
African Union appointment challenges
Brussels 13.08.2025 The African Union (AU) is dealing with internal tensions as the race to replace the outgoing Director of Conflict Management within the Department of Political Affairs, Peace, and Security approaches climax. The African Union faces internal tensions as regional blocs compete to appoint the next Director of Conflict Management. With crises in Sudan,…
Angola: civil unrest continues
Brussels 29.07.2025 Police in Angola informed that four people have been killed and 500 have been arrested after demonstrations in the capital, Luanda. They began as a three-day strike by taxi drivers against rising fuel prices, but subsequently escalated into one of the most significant and mass wave of protest the country has seen in…
Burkina Faso nuclear ambition
The Hague, 24.06.2025 The U.S. airstrikes launched by President Trump against Iran nuclear facilities impacted gravely the mindset of African leaders. Just a week of intense bombing of Iran by Israel caused a profound transition in understanding of multipolar world, free from political monopoly of one superpower, and its proxies. Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 has signed…
Somaliland attracts investors
Brussels 13.06.2025 Somaliland’s Representative to the EU Ambassador Kaysar Maxamed urged the EU companies and businesses leaders to seize investment opportunities in Somaliland. Why Somaliland? What the country which regained its freedom in 1992 can offer those who would like to invest? Somaliland has witnessed a great deal of progress over the last 30 years…
Nigeria: ongoing slaughter of Christians
Brussels 07.06.2025 The European Union keeps silence regarding the ongoing persecution of Christians in Nigeria. In spite of the recognition of the importance of the partnerships with Africa, and the well-being of Africans as the sine qua non of the EU security, and prosperity. However there have been no signs of support to the suffering…
Mali: Wagner PMC “returning home”
06.05.2025 The Private Military Company (PMC) Wagner has officially announced the completion of its mission in Mali. The company operated in the country for 3.5 years. During this time, the fighters destroyed “thousands of militants and their commanders”, helping the Malian armed forces regain control over all regional centers of the country. BIG: Russia's Wagner…
Trump-Ramaphosa: “Kill the Boer!”
Brussels 21.05.2025 The South African Minister of Land Reform and Rural Development Mzwanele Nyhontso said the South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa’s meeting in the Oval Office was “uncomfortable” but that the president handled it well. “It was uncomfortable to watch,” Nyhontso said while commenting the event to the media. Ramaphosa had to explain to Trump…
SA: Trump grants asylum to farmers
Brussels 12.05.2025 The white South Africans have been granted refugee status in the United States by the Trump administration. The group of 59 people arrived at Washington Dulles airport in Virginia on Monday, May 12, according to a State Department official said. (Image above: illustration) Trump said during a news conference at the White House…
Horn of Africa tensions
Brussels 07.04.2025 The threat of war is looming over the Horn of Africa, while the observers warning of a return to fighting in Tigray, which could produce domino effect, causing conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, Dr Abel Abate Demissie from Chatham House writes. Ethiopia’s ambition to secure Red Sea access, Eritrea’s interference in Ethiopia’s internal…
