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King Charles III in Kenya and Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Tanzania: European Leaders Returns to Africa with Colonial Mentality
The workweek beginning on 29th October and ending on the 3rd November 2023 is historically significant as European powers return to Africa, in a miniaturized recast of the Berlin conference. Germany and the UK seem to seek to mark territories while offering little to Africans. Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Nigeria and Ghana, the German president toured Tanzania and Zambia and the UK’s King Charles III toured Kenya…
A Tiny Horn of Africa State Becomes a Key Geopolitical Flashpoint
What’s all this interest in Djibouti of late? The tiny territory of only 23,000 square kilometres is now in the middle of a tectonic shift in world and regional politics. The ongoing quest by powerful nations to dominate the Indo-Pacific region is now extended to East Africa’s shores, and tiny Djibouti is the focal point in the geopolitical competition. Djibouti’s location overlooking the Bab al-Mandab Strait that connects the Indian Ocean via the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea and the Mediterranean is critical to understanding why the great powers…
One day the West will have to believe in the military successes of African countries
The trend of a number of Western so-called experts is unchanged. And it is based on the fact that without the participation of Western forces, non-Western states, in particular African states, will not be able to cope with security problems. At the same time, as it often happens, they forget to remind about the true causes of those very security problems. And also, at the very least, downplaying or denying the successes shown by the armed forces of a number of African countries in co-operation with non-Western allies. The position of Mali is very interesting…
