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May 28, 2025

China Strategy Initiative
China in Africa: April 2025

A Kenyan delegation traveled to Beijing in late April, resulting in comprehensive economic dealmaking. On the continent, April saw multisectoral Chinese investment in Algeria and Nigeria, the formati…

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Kenyan President William Ruto attend a meeting at the Great Hall of the People on April 24, 2025, in Beijing.
Article by Nathan Schoonover and Giulio Bianco China Strategy Initiative

May 5, 2025

Sub-Saharan Africa
The Cult of Traoré

Rather than a beacon of hope, Burkinabè tyrant Ibrahim Traoré is a pointer to everything that is wrong with the continent.

A person holds a sign with a picture of Captain Ibrahim Traoré while attending a rally by supporters of Burkina Faso's junta to mark the one-year anniversary of the coup that brought Traoré to power in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on September 29, 2023.
Post by Ebenezer Obadare Africa in Transition

March 31, 2025

Sub-Saharan Africa
A Question of Freedom

When it comes to African development, foreign aid is just the beginning.

A child plays at an advocacy wall after receiving a dose of PEPFAR-sponsored antiretroviral drugs used to prevent HIV from replicating, at the Nyumbani Children's Home in the Karen district of Nairobi, Kenya on February 12, 2025.
Post by Ebenezer Obadare Africa in Transition

March 3, 2025

Burkina Faso
Prince of the Sahel

Beneath the ideological bluster, Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré is just the latest in a long line of African martial impostors.

Burkina Faso's military leader Ibrahim Traoré attends John Dramani Mahama's swearing-in ceremony for his second term as Ghana's president, in Accra, Ghana, on January 7, 2025.
Post by Ebenezer Obadare Africa in Transition

November 29, 2021

Middle East and North Africa
Why Dictators Always Pretend to Love the Law

There’s something farcical—but entirely rational—about the way authoritarians such as Egypt’s Sisi invoke legal justifications for repression.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi attends the Arab summit in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, May 31, 2019.
Article by Steven A. Cook Middle East Program

February 12, 2016

Iraq
Weekend Reading: Iraq’s Kakai, “Being Syrian,” and a Death in Cairo

Reading selections for the weekend of February 12, 2016.

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Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

March 11, 2016

Egypt
Weekend Reading: Egypt’s Unions, Tunisia’s Youth, and Syria’s Protests

Reading selections for the weekend of March 11, 2016.

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Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates