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February 13, 2025

China Strategy Initiative
China in Africa: December 2024

China continued to strike economic deals with African countries, particularly in infrastructure, sustainable development, and mining.

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks during a joint briefing as Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty looks on at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China on December 13, 2024. GREG BAKER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

February 13, 2025

China Strategy Initiative
China in Africa: January 2025

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi continued the tradition of visiting the continent at the beginning of each year.

Chad’s Foreign Minister Abderaman Koulamallah meets with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in N’Djamena, Chad on January 8, 2025. JORIS BOLOMEY/AFP via Getty Images

February 12, 2025

South Africa
Trump’s Misguided Policy Toward South Africa

The U.S.-South Africa relationship needs a rethink. But the Trump administration’s approach is only making a bad situation worse.  

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa briefs the media on South Africa's G20 presidency for 2025 at the parliament in Cape Town, South Africa on December 3, 2024.

January 29, 2025

Sub-Saharan Africa
U.S.-Africa Policy in a Second Trump Term

Panelists discuss how a second Trump administration could reshape U.S.-Africa relations, whether security, economic, and diplomatic engagement will deepen or decline, and how to define the U.S. strat…

Play A young girl on a tilling a field with her family in southern Niger, Africa.

January 21, 2025

Somalia
Somaliland: The Horn of Africa’s Breakaway State

The would-be independent state stands in contrast to Somalia as a place of relative stability, and despite its lack of international recognition, Somaliland continues to push its own foreign policy.

A statue of a hand painted in the colors of Somaliland's flag holds a map of the territory.

December 20, 2024

Sub-Saharan Africa
What's at Stake for Africa in 2025

The incoming administration should think twice before ignoring the Africa portfolio. 

U.S. President Joe Biden, Angolan President Joao Manuel Goncalves Lourenco, Democratic Republic of the Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi, President of Zambia Hakainde Hichilema, and Tanzania’s Vice President Philip Isdor Mpango pose for a photo, during a tour of a Carrinho facility, near Lobito, Angola, on December 4, 2024.

December 4, 2024

Democracy
Africa’s Democratic Momentum

Contrary to doomsayers, liberal democracy is building up a head of steam on the continent.

Young men prepare a banner of the presidential candidate of Ghana's ruling New Patriotic Party, Mahamudu Bawumia, ahead of the elections on December 7, in Accra, Ghana on December 2, 2024.

December 18, 2024

Western Sahara
What Does the Western Sahara Conflict Mean for Africa?

After a decades-long cease-fire crumbled in 2020, Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front have resumed fighting over the disputed Western Sahara.

November 26, 2024

China Strategy Initiative
China in Africa: November 2024

Apart from a few noteworthy deviations, November saw routine Chinese investments in infrastructure and green energy across Africa, in addition to strong Sino-African cultural exchanges. Africans made…

The state flags of Uruguay, the United States, Tanzania, and the United Kingdom fly near the venue of the UN climate change conference COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, on November 16, 2024. Janis Laizans/REUTERS

November 25, 2024

Mozambique
High Stakes in Southern Africa

Elections in Namibia and proposed negotiations in Mozambique make this a pivotal week for the region’s future governance.

Protesters hold a banner with the face of Venancio Mondlane, independent candidate for the presidency of Mozambique during a "national shutdown" against the election outcome, in Maputo, Mozambique, on November 7, 2024.