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China Creates Debt Trap for Developing Nations
China’s influence in Africa has grown by leaps and bounds. In recent years, African central bank officials increasingly have even been discussing using the Chinese yuan as part of African foreign reserves, which would elevate the Chinese currency...
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Good Governance Important to Africa’s Future
Much is made of human rights failures in Africa, and rightly so. The denial of rights to citizens is always a sign of a despotic government that considers them subjects who owe unquestioning allegiance to its rulers. Such governments waste the...
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What About Africa’s Supply Chain Issues?
In the United States today, there is much discussion about supply chain problems threatening a delay in receiving goods from China into California ports that could impact Christmas sales. Even more seriously, good on the dozens of vessels at sea...
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Was Sudan’s Transition to Democracy Doomed from the Start?
The signs of the fragility of Sudan’s transition to democracy have been there for some time, even after President Omar al-Bashir was removed from office in 2019. The military, which overthrew him following massive street demonstrations,...
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How Will Africa Weather Climate Change?
COP26, the international climate conference, has begun, but what will it mean for an African continent bearing the brunt of climate change, yet needing to catch up with much of the rest of the world in industrialization, which would be inherently...
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Nigeria’s Collapse Behind the Scenes
Africa has several pressing crises at the moment, most notably the year-long war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region and the recent military coup in Sudan. Although they draw much of the attention of the international community, there are other conflicts...
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