Archives African Woes - Page 7 of 9 - New Eastern Outlook

Africa has become the main arena of both colonialism and neo-colonialism. Most countries on the continent experienced a ‘traditional’ form of colonialism. However, the Republic of South Africa had a significantly different history of colonialism. It is not by chance that it is labelled as colonialism of a special type. Whereas in most states on the continent, colonialism was imposed by European states from the outside, in South Africa the colonialists lived in the territory they occupied permanently…

On 26 July 2023, senior members of Niger’s presidential guard, normally tasked with protecting President Mohamed Bazoum, announced that they had ousted him from power, holding him hostage inside his official residence. Subsequently, on 28 July, General Abdourahamane Tiani, the commander of the presidential guard, declared himself the head of the military-run National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland, and the former chief of army staff, General Salifou Mody, who was dismissed by President Bazoum in March, was appointed his deputy…

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…