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Ethiopia Is Unwinding the Pretoria Deal Through Paperwork Not Gunfire
Fighting flared around Alamata in southern Tigray in early August and stopped within a day. The more consequential move came…
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Africa
Fifty-Five Countries Signed the African Passport. Almost None of Their Citizens Can Use It.
The African Union adopted a protocol for free movement and a continental passport in 2018. Years later, only a small…
Africa
South Sudan’s Unfinished Independence and the Collapse of Peacekeeping Diplomacy
South Sudan's collapse exposes the limits of African and UN peacekeeping, a $1.2 billion UNMISS mission that cannot protect civilians.
Africa
The African Union’s Credibility Crisis, Unity as Aspiration, Fragmentation as Fact
The African Union was built to enforce continental norms its members never intended to be bound by. Its impotence before…
Power & Economics
The 2024 China-Africa Summit, When the Largest Creditor Meets Its Most Indebted Partner
The ninth China-Africa summit exposed a relationship past the point where its asymmetries can be hidden. Chinese infrastructure reshaped the…
Africa
Libya After Gaddafi, The Fractures That Pan-Africanism Left Behind
Libya does not know whether it mourns Gaddafi, because he left a personalist state with no bureaucracy to survive him.…