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A New Cold War in Africa?

The U.S. has unveiled a U.S.$60 billion investment agency seeking to invest in low and middle-income countries with a special focus on Africa. This comes six months after the U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton presented the Trump administration's "New Africa Strategy" which notes a major concern: China and Russia "deliberately and aggressively targeting their investments in the region to gain a competitive advantage over the United States".

Africa: A New Cold War in Africa

Reporter, 6 July 2019

Last week, the 12th US-Africa Business Summit, a high-level event attended by 11 African heads of state and government and some 1,000 business leaders, was held in Maputo,… Read more »

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Tshwane, South Africa, Dar es Salaam, Harare, Lusaka, Maputo, DR Congo, Luanda, Kampala

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How to Limit Africa's Exposure to Volatile Global Markets

AllAfrica's Juanita Williams was in Moscow for the Afreximbank meetings - one of the preludes to the October 24 Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi, co-chaired Read more »
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Africa: New U.S. Strategy to Curb China's Growing Influence?

Nation, 23 June 2019

As the G20 Summit gets underway in Osaka Japan on June 28-29, 2019, Chinese President Xi Jinping and his American counterpart, Donald Trump, are scheduled to meet on the sidelines… Read more »
Africa: The Most Serious Global Security Threats in 2019

Citizen, 2 January 2019

With an ongoing trade war between the United States and China, Russian military posturing in Eastern Europe at its greatest since the Cold War and the most unpredictable US… Read more »
Africa: Can Russia Offer an Alternative to the U.S. and China?

The Conversation Africa, 2 June 2019

Russia has never had an African colony. It stayed out of the scramble for Africa, only engaging with African states in the 19th Century. In 1869, for instance, the Russians gave… Read more »