How Western Sahara Strained Relations Between Morocco and France
Despite needing help after an earthquake, Morocco snubbed France last September because of Western Sahara. Can issue be resolved between Rabat and Paris?
Read Moreby Ismaël Kraeber | Mar 11, 2024 | Africa, Europe, World | 1
Despite needing help after an earthquake, Morocco snubbed France last September because of Western Sahara. Can issue be resolved between Rabat and Paris?
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Sep 21, 2023 | Africa, What's New, World | 0
Why 10,000s may have died in floods in east Libya: Climate change, poor infrastructure, and warlord’s “business model where people of Derna are expendable”.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Aug 12, 2023 | Africa, US, What's New, World | 0
A 55-minute special analyzing the week from asylum seekers in the UK to US politics to a coup in Niger in West Africa to the 50th anniversary of hip hop
Read MoreUkraine’s forces have advanced further in the east of the country, ahead of an anticipated counter-offensive, and also attack on the southern front.
Read More55-minute special analyzing nurses’ concerns about UK National Health Service; conflict in Sudan; China manuever over Ukraine; Iran’s protests; & Joe Biden
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Mar 27, 2023 | Africa, Audio, EA Birmingham, EA in the Media, Media, US, World | 0
As US Vice President Kamala Harris embarks on three-nation tour, a chat about past, present, and future of US foreign policy towards Africa’s countries
Read Moreby Cedric Terrasson | Sep 14, 2022 | Africa, Europe, Russia, What's New, World | 0
“France’s Operation Barkhane in Mali has all the marks of a failure, with Mali still plagued by insecurity and jihadist attacks — and Russia is profiting.”
Read Moreby Kirstin Wagner | Aug 18, 2022 | Africa, Analysis, EA Birmingham, World | 0
Mothers and fatherless children speak about the effects of sexual exploitation by UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo: “We are suffering”
Read MoreHow Russia, through “Putin’s Chef” Yevgeny Prigozhin, is seizing and transporting gold from Sudan to help fund Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine
Read Moreby Cedric Terrasson | Jun 2, 2022 | Africa, Russia, World | 0
“Mali’s isolation is largely self-inflicted. Turning away from traditional allies and Malian democracy, the junta has placed hopes in a new partner: Russia”
Read Moreby Arnov Paul-Choudhury | Dec 29, 2021 | Africa, World | 0
Is it possible to work with producers of oil, coal, and natural gas for an effective strategy v. climate change? Shell in Nigeria offers reason for caution.
Read Moreby Deepa Parent | Sep 24, 2021 | Africa, World | 0
1st-hand from bulldozing of Benin’s fishing villages: “They came and demolished our houses. We have no place to go. My children are sleeping on the beach.”
Read Moreby Deepa Parent | Sep 8, 2021 | Africa, World | 1
UN officials dismiss reports of rape in and near Tigray as “media hype”, but region’s women and girls face “living hell” of sexual and gender-based violence.
Read Moreby Deepa Parent | Aug 25, 2021 | Africa, World | 1
US sanctions on Eritrea as “unspeakable violence”, blockage of aid, and malnutrition leave 5.2 million displaced in Tigray in neighboring Ethiopia.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Aug 5, 2021 | Africa, Asia, Audio, EA Birmingham, EA in the Media, Europe, Iran, Media, MENA, World | 1
World View episode with attempted hijack in Gulf of Oman; Coronavirus vaccine hesitancy; Tunisia President’s seizure of power; and death of Belarus activist
Read Moreby Hasan Patel | Mar 26, 2021 | Africa, Analysis, EA Birmingham, What's New, World | 11
Samia Suluhu Hassan is President of Tanzania, only 1 of 2 African women & 1 of 2 Muslim women as a current Head of State. So why are so few people noticing?
Read Moreby Lucas Sorensen | Feb 23, 2021 | Africa, World | 0
African Continental Free Trade Area: “The foundation has been laid for both African states and foreign powers to commit to a pan-African economic vision.”
Read Moreby Isabelle Ingledew | Feb 15, 2021 | Africa, World | 0
Nigeria’s #EndSARS movement resonated with a global audience. But have the demands of the protestors been heard by the Nigerian Government?
Read Moreby Henok Asmelash | Nov 30, 2020 | Africa, World | 0
Africa’s countries have opportunity for sustainable industrialization through continental market — if there are removal of barriers to trade & investment.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Nov 26, 2020 | Africa, US | 2
Joe Biden’s officials: “Return to competence & engagement doesn’t guarantee smooth relations. But a precondition of Administration with rules has been met.”
Read More“The role of mediator between the EU and China, while representing the interests of Africa’s states, can only be occupied by those states themselves.”
Read Moreby Abigail Pease | Aug 3, 2020 | Africa, Russia, World | 0
Since 2014, Russia’s approach to Africa has brought continent to center of Moscow’s foreign policy — & complications elsewhere are redoubling that effort.
Read Moreby Nic Cheeseman | Apr 5, 2020 | Africa, Analysis, EA Birmingham, World | 0
How could Coronavirus effect countries where “political institutions are weaker and where illness or death of leader generates power vacuum tempting rivals”?
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Mar 19, 2020 | Africa, Iran | 1
Rewriting recent history, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani insists that the Government acted quickly to inform the public about the threat from Coronavirus.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Jul 30, 2019 | Africa, Analysis, EA Birmingham, World | 0
“As people are questioning value of democracy in Western states, Africa’s populations are prepared to fight to prevent one-man, one-party, or military rule.”
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Apr 17, 2019 | Africa, Audio, EA in the Media, Syria, UK, US, World | 0
Scott Lucas on latest situation in Syria, Sudan uprising, Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg and the US Democrats, and climate change protests in the UK
Read Moreby Cameron Lindsay | Apr 12, 2019 | Africa, World | 0
In Sudan, President Omar al-Bashir, ending 29 years of authoritarian rule. But what happens now? A Beginner’s Guide to the protests and the military coup
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Jan 13, 2019 | Africa, Analysis, EA Birmingham, World | 1
In an era where “fake news” is compounding the challenge to democracy, how can societies ensure political advance through effective campaigns and elections?
Read Moreby Maneesh Mishra | Oct 10, 2018 | Africa, World | 0
A Senegalese soldier receives a Certificate of completion from a US Marine at a military camp...
Read MoreI joined Julia Hartley-Brewer of talkRADIO in our start-the-week review of events in the UK and...
Read More