Breaking the cycle of hunger that is the ambition Burkina Faso has set for itself, and it intends to achieve it first and foremost through its own producers. This approach is beginning to produce visible effects, including in the strategies of international partners. The most telling signal comes from the World Food Programme (WFP). Its…
When discussing the influence of Gulf countries in Africa, one first thinks of massive investments and port concessions. Yet what underpins that influence is a more fundamental but often overlooked architecture: diplomatic presence. The United Arab Emirates now has 19 embassies in sub-Saharan Africa, and new representations continue to open. The relationship between the UAE…
It took 42 years. Since 1984, the Democratic Republic of the Congo had been navigating blind, governing a vast territory and a population whose exact number and distribution no one truly knew. In 2026, that page has finally turned with the launch of the second census in the country’s history, and this titanic undertaking is…
The Council of Ministers of the Peace Government has issued Decision No. 10 on the organization and facilitation of the work of national and international humanitarian organizations for the year 2026, lifting the suspension of the activities of Médecins Sans Frontières France (Doctors Without Borders France) and calling for a conference on humanitarian issues. The…
By Mohammed Hassan al-Ta’ishi The war that erupted in Sudan in April 2023 has inflicted devastation on a staggering scale. It is tempting to view the conflict as a confrontation between two armed forces that can be resolved by ending the fighting and restoring the institutions that existed before the war. A ceasefire is urgently…
