The dust has yet to settle on the coup d’etat that toppled President Mohamed Barzoum of Niger on 10 July.What makes this event particularly…

Africa is back at the centre of international attention after two major events in July. The second Russia-Africa summit and then the coup d’etat in…

Just before last week's Nato summit in Vilnius, Turkey grabbed headlines by dropping its objections to Sweden joining the alliance. It was a shocking…

Once a country commits a serious strategic miscalculation, it then goes into damage control mode. Any action it takes to rectify the misstep can soon…

Syria’s return to the Arab League, on show to the world at May’s Jeddah Summit, ended over a decade of diplomatic isolation for Damascus.It started…

Moscow has said that it downed two drones that were targeting the Kremlin Tuesday night, accusing Kyiv of attempting to assassinate President…

The perennial dilemma that haunts every diplomat is how to balance idealism with realism.For a diplomat, idealism means incorporating moral…

On 31 March 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a document titled ‘The Concept of the Foreign Policy (FPC) of the Russian Federation’. It…

Over the past year, China has been gradually unrolling a new phase of its foreign policy as it shifts from being an observer to becoming an assertive…

When we speak of Chinese-US competition in Africa, we are mainly talking about sub-Saharan Africa. North Africa, however, is also becoming a…