Africa

The winds of power have shifted dramatically since the beginning of the Ukraine crisis. Dozens of nations, particularly those in Africa, now sway in the direction of Russia and China and away from neocolonialist countries. Recent meetings between Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and vital African leaders are a weather vane for what is to come. If you read the biography of South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit, you’ll learn why he always wears a Stetson cowboy hat…

France has recently, under the very inept and unprofessional rule of its President Emmanuel Macron, lost all of its once strong position in Africa. The latest example of this has been the incredibly tense relationship between France and Morocco, with the French government and media launching an unprecedented campaign of criticism against the Arab state. And this came at a time of its national crisis, when the country’s Atlas region was significantly devastated by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake. Official Paris’s exasperated approach to these events provoked surprise and negative reactions from both former…

The chain of events in a number of African countries over the past few months and years, most recently in Niger, is a completely organic and natural process. This process is only a consequence of the policy that France and a number of other Western regimes have been pursuing on the African continent for decades. No matter how the West tries to look for the culprits for its failures among its main geopolitical rivals, the responsibility for its failures lies entirely with its own elites. The outcome was expected – after the confrontation between Paris and the new…