Perhaps the most significant step in the recent changes within the G20 was the move to include the African Union as a permanent member of this global association. This step is significant because the G20 is inherently different from the G7, which has become a “club of selected supporters of the United States” thanks to…
Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Minister, has already visited Africa twice in the last three weeks. The first tour, which began on January 23, included stops in diverse countries such as South Africa, Eswatini, Angola, and Eritrea. The second, from February 6 to 9, covered Mauritania, Mali, Sudan, and one Middle Eastern country, Iraq. Moreover, the…
Africa will always support the side that’s fighting to liberate its countries from the chains of neo-colonialism and structural racism, which means that the West never had a chance from the get-go when it came to competing with Russia for hearts and minds. Observers across the world are bewildered by Russia’s newfound appeal to African…
By 1860, the dominant industry within southern agriculture was cotton production which utilized the unpaid labor of Africans on lands which were stolen from the Indigenous people of North America. During that presidential election year the issue of the expansion of slavery as an economic system underlined the struggle over who would become the leader…
Following the second ever US-Africa summit in Washington (the first was in 2014), the White House launched a massive offensive against African states, attempting to force them to either abandon cooperation with Russia entirely or reshape it in ways that benefit US businesses. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen embarked on an 11-day tour of African…
Following Britain’s exit from the European Union, France appeared to have certain opportunities to strengthen its position on the international stage, such as shifting the balance of power in Europe and bolstering Paris’s position in the Franco-German tandem. First, while Germany remained the EU’s economic leader, the Fifth Republic had more options in the political…
