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Drawing on more than two decades of reporting, most of it by bus and motorbike rather than by hired car, Ruud maps the landscape: why he calls the buying and selling of African stories a kind of colonialism, and names…
A proof-of-life video for the Chibok girls, handed to the one reporter still phoning their mothers two years after the news cycle moved on. Rwanda's logo on a Premier League shirt, and the outrage of people who had been…
A DRC bond issue four times oversubscribed, not because investors believed in the country but because the risk priced into it paid so well. A thousand people in the US and the UK who would buy a painting from Africa…
Data so expensive that people choose between connectivity and food. Newsrooms pressured not by censors with scissors, but by governments quietly pulling advertising. And a creator economy about to boom precisely because…
Every EU Global Gateway project in Africa on one map: 136 projects by pillar, phase, country and known commitment, from the Commission's official data, refreshed monthly.
What the African Union and regional bodies publish about Europe, filtered daily.
Export flows between the top African economies and all 27 EU member states, by country and product, from UN Comtrade.
EU foreign direct investment positions in African countries, by investor and destination, from Eurostat.
What the European Parliament, Commission and EIB publish about Africa, filtered daily.
Most think tanks approach the Africa–Europe relationship through policy or development. Neither puts business at the centre, yet business is where policy either works or does not. This paper maps six leading think…
Which themes six leading Africa–Europe think tanks cover, and where the gaps for business are.
African countries are used to the fact that false promises and fickle friends abound. We’ve seen this with the US, and in the broader architecture of…
Five priority topics for 2026–2027: Global Gateway in practice, investment risk penalties, business flows between the continents, cultural barriers to partnership, and the limits of the shared-values narrative.
There is a leaked memo stemming from US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s desk. It was prepared by the US State Department’s Bureau of African Affairs…
We’re used to the notion of American exceptionalism. But the tidal wave of isolationist and protectionist policies that is about to hit us comes at a…
Pageantry, photo opportunities, red carpets and high-level delegations. The Forum on China-Africa Co-operation made global headlines last week as China…
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán paid a few hard-to-miss, high-level, surprise visits to celebrate the start of his country's chairmanship of the…
The European Union’s climate policy is primarily characterised by one-way traffic. This is particularly true for African economies. These African…
Het Europese klimaatbeleid bestaat voornamelijk uit eenrichtingsverkeer. Dat geldt helemaal zo voor Afrikaanse economiëen, die onvoorbereid en zonder…
Het Europese klimaatbeleid bestaat voornamelijk uit eenrichtingsverkeer. Dat geldt helemaal zo voor Afrikaanse economiëen, die onvoorbereid en zonder…
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