• Karoline Eickhoff
• Rainer Thiele

Debt Relief in Africa: Conflicting Interests Between the West and China Hinder Multilateral Solutions

• German

Several African countries have defaulted on their debt, and more could follow. Multilateral solutions for debt relief are needed but are complicated by power struggles between the West and China, argue Karoline Eickhoff and Rainer Thiele on the occasion of the Paris Summit.

• Karoline Eickhoff
• Nadine Godehardt

China’s Horn of Africa Initiative: Fostering or Fragmenting Peace?

Security cooperation has become vital for protecting China’s interests and investments in Africa, especially in the geopolitically important Horn of Africa (HoA). Now, it recently launched the ‘Initiative of Peaceful Development in the Horn of Africa’ and appointed its first special envoy for the region. Both steps suggest that China seeks to become a more prominent development and security provider in the region. As the EU and Germany currently re-evaluate their relations with Beijing as much as with African partner countries, questions arise about the substance of the HoA initiative and what the consequences for peace and security in the region could be.

doi:10.18449/2022MTA-WP01

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