Global Power Shift and Multipolarity

• Karoline Eickhoff

Kenya: Winning Hearts and Minds Abroad or at Home?

Kenya's diplomatic strides in a multipolar world, balancing East and West ties, increasingly face scrutiny at home. This policy brief analyzes the divergent views on President Ruto's foreign policy domestically as well as abroad. What role for non-alignment in an environment of global division?

doi:10.18449/2024MTA-PB24

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• Daouda Cissé

Senegal: Booming groundnuts export to China poses long-term risks

• German

Senegal is one of Africa’s top peanut-exporting countries. Exports to China yield significant benefits for local farmers. But with them come long-term repercussions for local consumption, processing industries, and future production, Daouda Cissé argues in this Megatrends Afrika Spotlight.

• Julian Bergmann

The EU Should Rethink its Approach to African Peace and Security

• German

With the European Peace Facility (EPF), the EU's approach to supporting peace and security in Africa is moving towards a strong focus on military capacity-building. Instead, it should strengthen prevention and peacebuilding dimensions, argues Julian Bergmann (IDOS) in this Megatrends Afrika Spotlight.

• Karoline Eickhoff

Infrastructure in East Africa: What Challenges for the EU Global Gateway?

The EU faces (geo)political challenges as it implements the Global Gateway Initiative in East Africa, including rent-seeking dynamics and competition between external actors. Our paper recommends adressing mobility needs of East Africans and increasing regional coordination to mitigate risks.

doi:10.18449/2023MTA-WP04

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• 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.

• Fonteh Akum
• Denis M. Tull

Strategic Competition and Cooperation in Africa

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, policy-makers have increasingly viewed Western interests as being challenged by rival actors, including in Africa. This obscures Africa’s growing autonomy in the international order. Redefining European relations with Africa through the prism of strategic competition disproportionately focuses on challenges rather than opportunities.

doi:10.18449/2023MTA-PB13

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