Africa Review 29/1
Here is Africa Review, January 23-29.
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POLITICS AND CONFLICT
Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, in South Africa. Ramaphosa confirmed his attendance to the Russia-Africa Summit in July. Lavrov’s African tour also included Angola, Botswana and Eswatini. EU’s Borrell ran after. All scramble to visit Africa. Understanding African journalistic agency in China-Africa media interactions.
A critical windows to bolster Sudan’s next government. Great Lakes tensions spike after Rwanda nearly downs a Congolese fighter jet. How to avoid false narratives around DR Congo’s M23 conflict. Frances recalls ambassador and plans to withdraw military forces from Burkina Faso. France has maintained troops in the country since 2013 to help fight jihadists. On the French military presence in Africa. Mali: what future is there for MINUSMA?
When Zimbabwe stops pretending to be a democracy. Eswatini: rights lawyer Thulani Maseko has been murdered. The African Union has condemned the murder. 5 people arrested in a peaceful protest, in Luanda (in Portuguese).
Third World revolt on the latest AIAC podcast. Ibrahim Index of African Governance 2022 findings. Africa has become ‘less safe, secure and democratic’, in the past decade.
ENVIRONMENT / AGRICULTURE
Somalis are dying of hunger, but officials say it’s not a famine. Financing food security: promises and pitfalls of the humanitarian-development-peace nexus in South Sudan. South Sudan on the frontline of a climate crisis. Portugal agrees to swap Cape Verde’s debt for environmental investment.
OTHER
Remembering Cabral. Who ordered his killing? (in Portuguese). Cabral and the history of the future (in Portuguese). And Sankara: the international forces against him were too much. The 60-year, 4,000-mile journey home of Lumumba’s tooth.
Marikana: international solidarity 10 years after the massacre. The guilty must face justice.
Free movement of people across Africa. A snapshot of wealth in Africa. Urban trains in Africa. The practice and politics of DIY urbanism in African cities.
Where have the midwives ones? Everyday histories of Voetvroue in Johannesburg.
A major new exhibition in Nairobi reveals the history of East African art traditions. Musée Théodore Monod, in Dakar.
All for now. Until next Sunday.
Cat 🐕