Africa: Can Africa Turn Red Sea Rivalries to Its Advantage?

Africa: Can Africa Turn Red Sea Rivalries to Its Advantage?

Growing competition for African ports and security partnerships offers new leverage – if countries can avoid deeper geopolitical fragmentation. Ongoing conflict in the Middle East exposes shifting regional geopolitical fault lines that are pulling African states into an emerging macro-conflict system anchored along the Red Sea. This stems from several overlapping crises arising from US…

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Africa: Can Africa Turn Red Sea Rivalries to Its Advantage?

Africa: Wars, Humanitarian Crises, Economic Rivalries and Natural Disasters Shape the World

The final week of August was marked by intensifying geopolitical competition, continuing wars, humanitarian emergencies, economic uncertainty and devastating natural disasters. From the Middle East and Europe to Africa, Asia and Latin America, governments confronted a series of crises that demonstrated the increasingly interconnected nature of global security, economics, public health and climate change. The…

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