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Africa
African economies, strategic resources, political trajectories, trade, security and regional integration.
18 published articles
Overview
Africa is playing an increasingly important role in global economic, demographic and geopolitical balances. This section examines the continent’s transformations through its different regions, development models, resources, trade dynamics, institutions, security challenges and relations with major powers. Particular attention is given to national trajectories, regional interdependencies and the structural changes likely to shape the continent’s future.
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Mauritania: The Rise of a Power Between the Atlantic and the Sahara?
Long regarded as a transitional territory between the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa, Mauritania now occupies a distinctive position in the continent’s geopolitical and economic transformation. Its mineral resources, emerging natural gas industry, renewable energy potential, and
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AfricaAfrica: The 4.5% Trap
Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to grow by 4.5% in both 2026 and 2027, according to the International Monetary Fund's latest projections. Behind this resilience to global turbulence, however, lies a less reassuring reality: a regional economy that continues to expand without trans
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AfricaAfrica: The Battle for Resources Enters a New Era
For more than a century, much of Africa's mining economy has followed a relatively simple geographical pattern. Resources were extracted on the continent, transported to ports, and shipped to foreign industrial centers, where they acquired most of their added value.
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AfricaDangote: The Refinery Faces the Market
It took nearly $20 billion, more than a decade of construction and an industrial ambition rarely seen on the continent to build the Dangote refinery.
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AfricaKenya: Ambition Under Pressure
Kenya occupies a singular position on the African map. It is neither the continent’s most populous country, nor its dominant economy, nor a major military power.
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AfricaMorocco: The Theatre of the Ballot Box
Morocco is three weeks away from a legislative election. Political parties are finalising their lists, candidates are entering constituencies, manifestos are beginning to emerge, alliances are being tested and the country has once again adopted the familiar vocabulary of representative democracy.
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AfricaEgypt: The Weight of the World
Some countries derive their importance from wealth, others from military power, technology, or their ability to project influence beyond their borders. Egypt belongs to a different category. Its importance begins with geography.
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AfricaMorocco: Between Stability and Transformation
Some countries’ contemporary histories are best understood through their ruptures. Morocco is better understood through its continuities. The monarchy, the state, the country’s territorial architecture and a particular conception of sovereignty have endured across decades without
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AfricaAlgeria: The Unfinished Equation
A glance at the map is enough to understand part of Algeria’s ambition. The country stretches across nearly 2.4 million square kilometres, making it the largest state in Africa. It commands a long Mediterranean coastline, reaches deep into the Sahara, shares borders with seven co
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AfricaNigeria: Demographics, Oil and the Ambitions of Power
With more than 230 million people, vast hydrocarbon reserves, one of the continent’s largest metropolitan areas and a cultural influence that extends far beyond its borders, Nigeria possesses almost all the attributes of a major African power. Yet since independence in 1960, the
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AfricaSouth Africa: What Remains of the Miracle
In 1994, South Africa appeared to accomplish the improbable. After decades of apartheid, political violence, international sanctions and confrontations that many feared would culminate in civil war, the country held its first democratic elections under universal suffrage. Nelson
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AfricaThe Moroccan Paradox: A Country Moving Forward, a Society Still Waiting
Morocco is building ports, highways, railway lines, energy infrastructure and industrial zones. It manufactures automobiles and aerospace components, exports processed phosphates, attracts international investment and is becoming increasingly integrated into European and global v
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AfricaSouthern Africa: Africa’s Industrial Core Between Mineral Wealth, Economic Integration and Structural Challenges
Southern Africa occupies a distinctive position in the economic geography of the African continent.