Strategic Thinking on East Africa

Bureau of African Affairs’ Assistant Secretary Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on “Terrorism and Instability in Sub-Saharan Africa” on May 10, 2016.

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From NPR by MALAKA GHARIB Gayle Smith in her office at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. Victoria Sarno Jordan/NPR They called her Mr. Smith. When the newly installed USAID chief Gayle Smith was at a conference in Africa recently, the local leaders didn’t recognize the gender of her name. So they gave her a […]

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South African leader says Burundi agreed to allow pan-African body to send human rights and military monitors. Burundi’s leader Pierre Nkurunziza triggered the crisis when he announced a bid for a third term [Evrard Ngendakumana/Reuters] The African Union (AU) will send 200 human rights and military monitors to Burundi, South Africa’s president said, after a […]

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The Strathink Editorial Team We live in interesting times. Our world today is faster, more connected and, in many ways, smaller than the planet we inhabited just twenty years ago. Yet, one part of our world seems surprising unchanged if we view that region from the perspective of the West—Africa. Despite the profound changes that […]

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Tom Bundervoet That the first decade of the 2000s was Africa’s most economically successful period since the beginning of official statistics has been amply voiced. Between 2000 and 2010, sub-Saharan Africa (developing only) grew at over 5 percent per year, large enough to produce real gains even in the face of sustained population growth (of […]

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Military deploying to protect Beijing’s people and investment by PETER DÖRRIE Chinese activities in Africa have expanded massively during the last decade. To be sure, most of this has been purely economic—such as bartering access to natural resources in exchange for loans. But these money-making activities have grown so much in recent years, China is […]

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By Tesfa-Alem Tekle January10, 2016 (ADDIS ABABA) – Ethiopia says it has finalized preparations to make a new bid to secure a non-permanent seat in the UN Security Council, government officials said on Sunday. A UN Security Council session in New York (Photo courtesy of the UN) According to officials at the ministry of foreign […]

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From The Brookings Institution Africa is at a tipping point in 2016. Despite all the success the continent has achieved in recent years, new and old dangers—economic, political, and security-related—threaten to derail its progress. With sound policymaking, effective leadership, and enough foresight, however—Africa can meet and defeat these challenges as well as the many more […]

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By Winslow Robertson and Lina Benabdallah January 7 Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects the honor guard after arriving in Harare, Zimbabwe on December 1, 2015. (JEKESAI NJIKIZANA/AFP/Getty Images) The year 2015 was quite eventful for China-Africa diplomacy. Several high-level officials from both sides visited in each direction; the African Union (AU) and China signed a memorandum of understanding; China concluded […]

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Our Winners are Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegne, the People of Eritrea, Tanzanian President John Magufuli and Rwandan President Paul Kagame The Strathink editorial team would like to begin by congratulating Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn on being named AfricaWorld “Man of the Year.” Moreover, the team would like to congratulate the people of Ethiopia for […]

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