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Senegal: from prison cell to the presidency Part Three: What's next? The West on standby

In the area of foreign policy, the most serious step the new head of state plans to take is to reassess relations with the former metropolis. According to the South African Mail and Guardian, both the President and the Prime Minister are unanimous in agreeing that the partnership with France needs to be significantly adjusted to take Senegal’s interests more fully into account…
Viktor Goncharov

Senegal: from prison cell to the presidency Part Two: The winds of change in West Africa have swept Senegal as well

According to a number of analysts, the rise to power in Senegal of Diomaye Faye and Ousmane Sonko, who enjoy the support of the majority of the population, especially the youth, who feel strongly the “winds of pan-Africanism and nationalism”, should also be seen as “the result of the wave of sovereignty sweeping West Africa”. At his first press conference after his election, Faye said that “the people of Senegal, by voting for him, were in favour of breaking with the past in order to implement the social project proposed by our party”, which includes fighting corruption, promoting youth employment and raising the cost of living…
Viktor Goncharov

Mikhail Bogdanov: "The African continent is not an arena of confrontation between major international players, but a new, growing, diverse, distinctive, global pole of power"

How are Russian companies operating in Africa in the new geopolitical environment? To what extent is Russia willing to cooperate with African countries in such promising areas as digital technologies and peaceful nuclear energy? What has changed in the work of a diplomat over half a century?
Yuliya Novitskaya

Senegal: from prison cell to the presidency Part One: The end of the "liberal democracy" regime?

Viktor Goncharov

U.S. Admits Failed Africa Strategy: But There’s More!

Phil Butler

The reasons for the motivation of number of African countries to withdraw their gold-currency reserves from the US

Mikhail Gamandiy-Egorov

Emmanuel Macron's knee placed on the necks of Africans

Mohamed Lamine KABA

Sudan is on the brink of a terrible humanitarian catastrophe

Viktor Mikhin
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