France’s economic diplomacy in Africa, historically a cornerstone of Paris’s international influence, confronts profound crisis as market share erodes and competitors gain ground. Fifteen years ago, France still considered itself a major banking and commercial power across the continent, with key sectors from finance to infrastructure making Paris an indispensable partner for Francophone and Anglophone […]
Cameroon’s military has admitted that three members of its airborne battalion had earlier this week attacked civilians and killed two mothers in Nylbat, an English-speaking village in Andeck district. According to a statement by the military, the troops, who were dispatched to fight separatists in the troubled northwestern region, violated orders from military hierarchy and […]
The African Union’s quest to assert itself in global arenas as a partner to regional institutions and global powers is undermined by the presence of a separatist proxy that lacks all the attributes of a sovereign state. In less than a week, two major partnership events were put off sine die to avoid the probability […]
