powers of the European Union, France and the United Kingdom, have long shaped the bloc’s approach to Africa France kept the EU’s focus on West Africa and the Sahel, while the UK made sure that the Horn of Africa and East Africa would not be ignored. By chance, Brexit coincides with increased German interest in Africa. A truly European strategy for Africa should borrow from the best of the diverse cultures of its member

rights — as former prime minister Brian Mulroney did with the campaign against racial apartheid in South Africa.

Julio Obama Mefuman was serving a 60-year jail term after being taken from South Sudan in a suspected Julio Obama Mefuman, 51, who was also a Spanish citizen and was taken from South Sudan in a suspected for the Movement for the Liberation of the Third Equatorial Guinea and is based in Spain, the central African source said the two, along with two Equatorial Guinea nationals who reside in Spain, were seized in South

The draft resolution affirmed issues of importance to South Africa in a context where resolutions of South Africa reminded that when Member States had adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development South Africa was deeply concerned over the loss of lives because of indiscriminate terrorist acts. Egypt hoped that it would work with South Africa today in order to contain this matter. However, absence of safeguards in L.50 was the reason that South Africa had tabled amendment L.63.

civilians, killing hundreds of people in aerial bombings and revenge attacks in the past week, as  Africa the Russians as Anton Selivanetz, who appears to have previously worked with the United Nations in Africa The other man, Viktor Granov, was previously linked to arms trafficking in Africa by Amnesty International Granov’s South African driver’s license was among the debris from the downed cargo plane. Abdi Latif Dahir  is the East Africa correspondent for The Times, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

arrive at the UAE," said Marc Ummel, a researcher with development organisation Swissaid who tracks African Nearly 2,000 kilometres away, on Sudan's borders with South Sudan and the Central African Republic , Much of the gold produced by both sides is smuggled to Chad , South Sudan and Egypt , before reaching It is also the leading destination for smuggled African gold, according to Swissaid. It is sent first to an airport in the South Sudanese town of Raga, "and then transported by plane to

The Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) released findings on Thursday showing After RSF forces captured the Heglig oilfield near the South Sudan border on December 8, both warring parties agreed to allow South Sudanese troops to secure the site, which serves as a critical economic South Sudan confirmed that seven of its soldiers were killed on Thursday in a drone strike by the SAF

are now facing an even harsher reality,” said Eric Perdison, WFP ’s Regional Director for Southern Africa in the east The situation is worst in the conflict-affected eastern provinces of DRC – North Kivu, South in North Kivu - and in particular six sites around Goma – and the territories of Kalehe and Uvira in South “We have resumed operations in parts of North and South Kivu, and we are committed to do more to support emergency food assistance in eastern DRC, FAO and WFP have invested in skills-based training in North and South

but there is an odd disconnect in how they have described a looming public health emergency in the African between the largely Arab, Islamic northern part of the country and the largely animist and Christian African south, which formed the independent country of South Sudan in 2011. In its reports in South Sudan, WHO acknowledged that “all the states bordering South Sudan are affected internal health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, noted that most sub-Saharan African

of the Sahara desert in northwestern and central Africa. of the wider security crisis in the region, said Paul Melly, a consulting fellow at Chatham House's Africa government that has largely retreated from large swaths of the country, said Judd Devermont, director of the Africa were driven out in early 2013 by French troops, together with Malian forces and soldiers from other African countries under the African-led International Support Mission to Mali (AFISMA) banner.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the South Sudanese government’s announcement that it is refusing The decision to ban the 20 journalists from working or continuing to work in South Sudan was revealed from criticizing South Sudan in their reporting," said Clea Kahn-Sriber, the head of RSF’s Africa desk We call on the South Sudanese authorities to lift this ban. The Nairobi-based Foreign Correspondents Association of East Africa (FCAEA) said the banned journalists

South Sudanese refugees get off the truck at Palorinya settlements in Uganda where each family will be United Nations refugee agency has appealed for an urgent peaceful resolution to what has now become Africa's “Recent new arrivals report suffering inside South Sudan with intense fighting, kidnappings, rape, fears Noting that the welcome South Sudan refugees received in the neighbouring countries “is encouraging” 342,000), Sudan (305,000), Kenya (89,000), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (68,000) and the Central African