West Africa

Chocolate manufacturers panic as cocoa prices skyrocket

Climate change in West Africa, new deforestation laws in Europe, and a lack investment in cocoa plantations has led to dizzying fees for chocolate's base ingredient. What now for the industry?

Salwa Baalbaki 22 May 2024

Washington has finally woken up to the importance of developing this vital region, with Nigeria showing the greatest investment potential — in the trillions.

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Blinken tours West Africa with eye on safeguarding maritime trade

Washington has finally woken up to the importance of developing this vital region, with Nigeria showing the greatest investment potential — in the trillions.

Mohamed Sharki 28 January 2024

For hundreds of years, Morocco has been a key link in the world maritime order between the global north and the global south. It is now turning its attention to the West.

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Atlantic Africa: The new economic bloc on the block

For hundreds of years, Morocco has been a key link in the world maritime order between the global north and the global south. It is now turning its attention to the West.

Mohamed Sharki 22 January 2024

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf speak to the media prior to a meeting at the State Department in Washington, DC, August 9, 2023

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Why Algeria is at the centre of a flurry of US diplomacy

Washington is spending more time engaging with Algiers – long seen as more of an ally of Moscow and Beijing – as shifts in geopolitics centred on West Africa reverberate around the world

Rabie Khreis 22 September 2023

An Afghan security personnel gestures as he stands guard at the site a day after a car bomb explosion in Kabul on August 4, 2021. (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP)

The Resurgence of Terror

Terrorism, be it in South Asia, the Middle East, or West Africa, is regrettably enjoying a resurgence. The US decision to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan has, as anticipated, only emboldened the…

Hagar Elnahas 06 August 2021

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