25 Years of Partnership between the #AU and #EU: Why respectful communication matters. In this interview, Senegalese lawyer Ibrahima Kane outlines Africa’s priorities for the upcoming #AUEU25 Summit and reminds us that how we talk is as vital as what we negotiate. Read more, here: t1p.de/a1u6j

Africa’s conflicts reflect a new era of #multipolarity: UN #peacekeeping, Western-led #counterterrorism and EU #training decline since the mid-2000s, while Russia, Turkey and the UAE increasingly engage through #mercenaries, #drones and #military aid. Read more, here: t1p.de/vrprt

25 Years of Partnership between the #AU and #EU: How can we strengthen peace and security? @julianbergmann.bsky.social calls for closer cooperation in conflict prevention, peace mediation, and cyber resilience ahead of the #AUEU25 summit. 🔍 Read more in his spotlight: t1p.de/f0bsl

What’s driving the identity-based atrocities in #Darfur? A feeling of revenge, existential fear and a racist ideology of Arab supremacy seen two decades ago. The RSF continue, or even complete that genocidal project now, I tell DW (in English) #Sudan m.youtube.com/watch?v=R0iz... (from 16:10)

Friday Read 📘 Today: "Sudan Is in Free Fall" by Eric A. Friedman, Suad Abdel aziz, and John Prendergast in The New York Times explaining who needs to apply pressure on the UAE, the primary backer of the RSF's war machine. 🔗 nytimes.com/2025/11/06/opinion/sudan-darfur-el-fasher-uae.html

🎙️ Podcast Alert 🎙️ Tune in to the podcast with @denistull.bsky.social and @ltschoerner.bsky.social for insights on the latest developments in the Sahel region, and to find out why and how the EU should re-engage. www.swp-berlin.org/publikation/...

From coal to clean #energy: can South Africa 🇿🇦 produce solar panels and wind turbines locally, creating jobs and advancing #decarbonization? @phemelo-tamasiga.bsky.social and Lebogang Mateane discuss what it takes to overcome market barriers for a just energy transition. 📃 t1p.de/mppp9

Africa’s #conflicts reflect a new era of #multipolarity: UN peacekeeping, Western-led counterterrorism and EU training decline since the mid-2000s, while Russia, Turkey and the UAE increasingly engage through mercenaries, drones and military aid. Read more in our spotlight 📃 t1p.de/83zfu

In just three weeks, #Madagascar’s #GenZ protesters ousted former president #Rajoelina.⚡ In this Spotlight, @indianoceanist.bsky.social explores the drivers and digital strategies behind this leaderless movement and what it implies for the future of democracy in Africa. 👀 t1p.de/fnhfp

🚨 Huge news from The Hague: The #ICJ declared #climate #justice a legal duty. This means states that fail to cut emissions may face legal consequences. @phemelo-tamasiga.bsky.social and Helen Onyeaka show how this empowers Africa to demand action and accountability. 👉 t1p.de/pv9ty

💡 Africa in a #MultipolarWorld – Opportunities and Challenges At this year’s @megatrends-afrika.de Annual Conference, one key question guided the discussions: How do African states navigate and shape their agency in an increasingly multipolar world? Read more: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Friday Read 📘 To send you into the weekend with something compelling. Today: Anne Allmeling's (german) article on the Gen Z 121 protests in Morocco. The demonstrations, leaderless and digitally organized, began after a number of young mothers died from C-sections. 🔗 www.nzz.ch/internationa...

📢 New study alert! Leverage and Limits: What African Actors Make of the New #Multipolarity explores how #Africa navigates a new world order. 18 authors, 8 chapters, and 1 deep dive into security, democracy, trade, infrastructure, minerals, digital policy and urban development. 🧵

Is #multipolarity a curse or blessing for #Africa? 🌍 Our new study "Leverage and Limits: What African Actors Make of the New Multipolarity" finds answers in 7️⃣ policy fields, highlighting how African #agency is limited and enhanced through geopolitical competition and partnerships. Out tomorrow!

🚨 Launching next week: “Leverage and Limits: What African Actors Make of the New #Multipolarity“. 🌍 18 authors, 8 chapters, and a deep dive how #Africa navigates a world of rising global #competition and multiple #partners. Stay tuned!

In #Nigeria 🇳🇬, efforts to #disarm, #rehabilitate and #reintegrate former Boko Haram members are meant to counter violent #extremism. Joshua Akintayo explains how agency rivalries over budgets and influence weaken efforts instead. 👉 Find his brief and policy recommendations, here: t1p.de/8fjmh

Friday Read 📘 To send you into the weekend with something compelling. Exactly two years after #Mali, #Burkina Faso and #Niger formed the Alliance of Sahel States, Maÿlis Dudouet unpacks the symbolic of the #AES #flag in The Africa Report. 🔗 www.theafricareport.com/390688/from-...

🌍 The #AU is calling for a new world #map that shows Africa’s real size 👉 #CorrectTheMap campaign. Ahead of the #EUAU summit, @karolineeickhoff.bsky.social explains how maps shape our view of the world and urges the European side to review its use of visualizations. 📃 t1p.de/6wka6

Friday Read 📘 To send you into the weekend with something compelling. Today: On #Ethiopia ’s #GERD dam, expected to double the country’s #electricity output, its financing and the 1959 #Nile Waters Agreement between Egypt and Sudan, written by Privilege Musvanhiri. 🔗 www.dw.com/en/deaths-do...

By externalizing border control, the EU has helped #Libya to turn #migrants into cash, write wlacher.bsky.social and Jérôme Tubiana in Le Monde diplomatique. An analysis of how counter-migration became an attractive business model for Libyan #militias.

We're delighted to welcome Dr Godfrey Maringira at @swp-berlin.org and in the #MegatrendsAfrika team! #ResearchFellowship #AfricanScholars

While the #AfricaClimateSummit is beginning today in Addis Ababa, our researchers have shared their insights on Just Energy Transition Partnerships #JETPs and climate collaboration in a multipolar world, drawing on examples from South Africa and Senegal. 🧵

Friday Read 📘 To send you into the weekend with something compelling. Today: The dangerous business of keeping Burundi moving by Désiré Nimubona (The Continent) on $7/litre fuel that smugglers risk their lives for and how today’s crisis traces back to 2015. 🔗 continent.substack.com/p/the-danger...

📣Debating Trump 2.0 and Implications for Africa: civil society organizations face a double crisis: #funding cuts and narratives undermining their #legitimacy. As @lenagutheil.bsky.social notes, #CSOs must diversify their funding and Europe must back an independent civil society. 👉 t1p.de/z9iym

Friday Listen 🎧 To send you into the weekend with something compelling. Today: Khalid Sidahmed's three-part interview with Hudson Mohawk Magazine Radio on the historical, social, and geopolitical layers of the war in Sudan. menasolidaritynetwork.com/2024/07/14/i...

Friday Read 📘 To send you into the weekend with something compelling. Today: insights from the project "A Women’s Oral History of West Africa" in which Sylvia Arthur traveled along the West African coast, from Nigeria to Senegal, documenting the lives of women over the age of 60. 👉 t1p.de/0nqy3

Welcome at @idos-research.bsky.social and in the #MegatrendsAfrika team! #ResearchFellowship #AfricanScholars

Super interesting, for a non-economist like me Navigating Global Trade Barriers: Africa's Pivot Amid U.S. Tariffs and EU Restrictions www.ecofinagency.com/news/0408-47...

Friday Read 📘 Monday’s new #UN report on #food insecurity reveals that, in 2024, over 1 billion Africans could not afford a healthy diet. Hence today's recommendation: Africa’s worsening food crisis – it’s time for an agricultural revolution by William G. Moseley 👉 t1p.de/0rsa5

Welcome at @kiel.institute and in the Megatrends Afrika team! #ResearchFellowship #AfricanScholars

📘 July publications: Explore the latest @megatrends-afrika.de blog contributions by IDOS experts Dr. Phemelo Tamasiga, Christine Hackenesch & Lena Gutheil here: www.megatrends-afrika.de/en/analysis

Kenya’s debt crisis is about more than numbers—it's about trust. As leaders blame external shocks, citizens demands accountability for corruption and poor governance. @karolineeickhoff.bsky.social contrasts the differences in public opinion and government positions on debt. 👉 t1p.de/ykzdw

Should #donors in the development sector shift their focus from large organisations to #grassroots community groups? @lenagutheil.bsky.social and Dennis Mbugua Muthama present data on when aid should be ‘localized’, building on their research in Nakuru City, Kenya. 📃 t1p.de/hpoex

@heidland.bsky.social erklärt im Interview mit Table Media in welchen Bereichen Geberländer am meisten von #Entwicklungszusammenarbeit profitieren und wie letztere im "beidseitigen Interesse" gestaltet werden kann ➡️ table.media/africa/inter...

As the #PanAfricanParliament debates #reparations in Midrand, @karolineeickhoff.bsky.social and @uelistaeger.bsky.social reflect on whether Europe is ready to confront with its #colonial past and the opportunities this could present 👉 www.megatrends-afrika.de/en/publicati...

What drives African youth political attitudes and behavior? Christine Hackenesch and Godfred Bonnah Nkansah analyse Afrobarometer data from 41 countries — showing how urbanization🏙️ and social media 📱usage can push youth toward protest over the ballot box 🗳️ 👉 t1p.de/28pcq

Friday Read 📘 Today: Togo’s Fifth Republic — At What Cost? by Ayobami Steven Akinola As Faure #Gnassingbé abolishes presidential elections and consolidates power, this essay unpacks how a constitutional reform became an authoritarian upgrade — and what it means for #Togo’s future. t1p.de/qlvk9

How can #SouthAfrica align #climate goals with socioeconomic stability? In a new brief, @phemelo-tamasiga.bsky.social shows that many renewable jobs lack coal-sector benefits like job security and pensions. 👉 Read his recommendations for a truly just #transition t1p.de/u6e3d

Friday Read 📘 In “Humour as a Form of Resistance in the #Kenyan #GenZ Protests”, Mikhail Nyamweya shows how protesters, met with tear gas, police #violence, and Ruto's orders to "shoot in the legs" are digitising resistance and ridiculing state power. 🔗 democracyinafrica.org/humour-as-a-...

🚨 Call for Applications! @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social at @uni-freiburg.de invites senior researchers based in Africa to apply for the Sustainable Governance Senior Fellowship 2026/27. 🌍 Open to all nationalities 📅 Deadline: 12 Sept 2025 👉 More info: t1p.de/lz5jr #CfA #Opportunity #Fellowship

Now out in English: My policy brief on the #protection of civilians in #Sudan. @swp-berlin.org www.swp-berlin.org/en/publicati...

🎙️Neue Podcastfolge Megatrends Afrika: Schuldenkrise afrikanischer Länder – (k)ein Ausweg? Darin diskutieren @karolineeickhoff.bsky.social und @rthiele.bsky.social zentrale Herausforderungen wie: 📈 starke Abhängigkeit von Rohstoffpreisen 📉 geringe Steuereinnahmen Jetzt reinhören! 🎧

Friday Read 📘 Today: Identifying the Broader Lines and Connecting the Dots in the Current DRC Crisis by Nina Wilén — where she reflects on four global trends: 1️⃣ decline of democracy 2️⃣ coup wave across Africa 3️⃣ intensified chase for natural resources 4️⃣ growing multipolarity 👉🏻 t1p.de/7g7rv

The 4th Conference on Financing for Development #FfD4 kicks off today as #debt burden rises across #Africa. For background info on Africa’s position in debt talks, @karolineeickhoff.bsky.social unpacked the Lomé draft declaration—calling for #G20 reforms and targeted debt relief. 📘 t1p.de/k4v1t

Friday Read📘to send you into the weekend with something compelling. Today: Tunisia and Ghana: Parallel Histories, Diverging Democracies by Youssef Cherif — on how time and timing, neighboring countries and regional institutions can shape democratic resilience or failure. 🔍 mecam.tn/mecam-papers/

Today marks one year since Kenya’s 🇰🇪 mass protests, and the current demonstrations over blogger Ojwang's death are being met with teargas. Look into @karolineeickhoff.bsky.social's analysis for some background on how Kenyans view their president: www.megatrends-afrika.de/en/publicati...

The launch of an RMB clearing bank in Mauritius 🇲🇺 marks a shift toward financial diversification. Benedikt Erforth writes about balancing China and India, and how Port Louis positions itself as an Africa-Asia bridge — challenging dollar dominance and Europe’s role. 👉 t1p.de/ebwek

Friday read📖 to send you into the weekend with something compelling. Today: The African Revolution by Richard Reid — a multifaceted portrait of the continent in the 19th century, when new political and economic dynamics, marked by volatility and violence, shaped the world to come 🔍 t1p.de/wmu93

Foreign aid 🟰 charity ❓ Not quite! @heidland.bsky.social and colleagues at @kiel.institute show how donors often benefit — economically, geopolitically, and in security.

Chinese financing for African energy prioritises hydropower over solar ☀️ and wind 🌬️power, with concessional loans mainly benefiting Chinese firms 🇨🇳 Read more in Marvellous Ngundu (formerly @kiel.institute)'s paper, which analyses data from 276 projects across 40 African countries 🌍 t1p.de/jmf4h