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Subsaharan Africa

Subsaharan Africa

This area stretches from the Cape Verde islands on the Atlantic to the Horn of Africa on the Indian Ocean, and north to south from the Upper Nile and the Sahara Desert to the Cape of Good Hope, where the Atlantic and Indian oceans meet. The continent’s main assets are abundant natural resources and a young population.

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Woman at a voting station in Bissau
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Guinea-Bissau: Little hope for a peaceful transition
Teresa Nogueira Pinto
Teresa Nogueira Pinto

After decades of institutional fragility, Guinea-Bissau appears to be facing another political thunderstorm. Presidential candidate Umaro Sissoco Embalo has seized the reins of the country, but neither the supreme court nor the National Assembly recognize his victory. Meanwhile, pressured by the pandemic, the Economic Community of West African States has recognized the Sissoco Embalo administration, but only under certain conditions.

EU-Africa trade from 2008 to 2018
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The EU’s new, more practical strategy for Africa

The EU’s new strategy for Africa focuses on areas that are of crucial importance in the eyes of African governments: green transition and energy access, digital transformation, sustainable growth and jobs, peace and governance, and migration and mobility. However, a lack of political cohesion on the European side could prevent ...
People stand in line to vote in a constitutional referendum in Ngozi Province, Burundi
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Burundi: Turmoil ahead?

In May 2020, President Pierre Nkurunziza will step down and the successor chosen by the regime will likely become the new leader of Burundi. However, these developments could trigger significant upheavals. Armed militias operating from Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo could decide to interfere, especially if the ...
 Teresa Nogueira Pinto
Teresa Nogueira Pinto
A chart showing Zimbabwe’s oscillating economic growth rate from 2000 to 2019
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Zimbabwe: Dashed hopes for meaningful change

After the 2017 coup d’etat ended the strong-arm rule of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa promised to fundamentally reform the bankrupt country and to open it to the world. A short-lived spurt of economic growth followed, but it turned into a deep contraction in 2019. The new ...
 Teresa Nogueira Pinto
Teresa Nogueira Pinto
A picture of a container truck on a ruined road of the Apapa Port Complex in Lagos, Nigeria
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Leadership Challenges 2020: Why Nigeria’s development remains stunted

Nigeria is a federation by necessity, given its size and very high ethnic and geographic diversity. To keep the country in one piece, the system is centralized and uses a matrix of quotas to try to keep all groups and regions together. This design, however, combined with overall poor leadership, ...
 Teresa Nogueira Pinto
Teresa Nogueira Pinto
Exports of the DRC in 2017
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A fragile alliance in the DRC

President Felix Tshihekedi came to power thanks to an agreement with former president Joseph Kabila, who ruled the DRC for nearly two decades and who still holds sway over much of the country. If their pact holds, President Tshihekedi could implement reforms that will tap into the country’s economic potential, ...
 Teresa Nogueira Pinto
Teresa Nogueira Pinto

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Corruption in Africa: two possible scenarios
Corruption in Africa: two possible scenarios | GIS: Global Trends Video Reports
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Improving West Africa healthcare is key to containing Ebola play

Improving West Africa healthcare is key to containing Ebola
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How West Africa is counting the cost of the Ebola outbreak

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Angola
Phosphate in Togo

Phosphate in Togo
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Scenarios for Togo
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Togo

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