Polisario militias

African Development Bank set to launch game-changing refinancing tool

African nations struggling with mounting international debt are about to get a lifeline. The African Development Bank’s new refinancing facility isn’t just another bureaucratic solution – it’s potentially a financial game-changer for the continent. The initiative, dubbed The African Financial Stability Mechanism, stands ready for launch after clearing its final hurdles. All that’s needed now […]

Coup contagion fears threaten new investment, ratchet up interest rates in Africa — experts

The apparent coup trend in Africa, creating a belt of countries that now stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean, is adding to other major concerns deterring many investors from the continent — a wave of debt crises, tense geopolitics, and an extreme vulnerability to climate change. There have been nine coups in […]

Yemen: From Arab Military Action to Birth of Permanent Force?

As Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies joined forces to stop the Iran-backed Houthi Shiite insurgents from tightening their grip on the impoverished country, many analysts say this joint Arab move to defend the legitimate Yemeni government may lead to the creation of an Arab army, a dream which has so far been an elusive […]