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    July 4, 2025
    Trente ans après l’Accord d’association de 1995, le partenariat entre la Tunisie et l’Union européenne s’épuise, pris au piège d’un logiciel diplomatique obsolète, hérité d’une époque révolue. Conçu comme un levier de convergence normative et de modernisation économique, il repose encore sur des fictions désormais intenables : une Europe généreuse et cohérente, une Tunisie en capacité d’absorber l’acquis communautaire, et un intérêt mutuel qui aurait survécu aux bouleversements géop ...
  • July 3, 2025
    Launched in November 2023, Morocco’s Atlantic Initiative aims to provide landlocked Sahel countries with strategic access to the Atlantic Ocean through major infrastructure investments in ports, roads, and rail. Anchored in regional integration, the initiative supports economic growth, ...
  • July 3, 2025
    In this episode, we explore China’s expanding presence in Africa, looking at investments in infrastructure, trade, and development projects. We discuss the opportunities these partnerships create, as well as the debates around debt, influence, and local impacts. Our expert shares divers...
  • July 1, 2025
    في هذه الحلقة من برنامج "حديث الثلاثاء"، نناقش التحولات الدولية المتسارعة تجاه قضية الصحراء المغربية. نركز على اتساع الدعم الدولي لمبادرة الحكم الذاتي وتراجع الاعتراف بـ"الجمهورية الصحراوية المزعومة". كما نستعرض دور الدول الإفريقية والعربية في الدفع نحو حل نهائي وسط انقسامات مجلس الأمن....
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    Hanne Knaepen
    July 1, 2025
    This Blog was originally published on ettg.eu Europe and North Africa are intensifying cooperation, driven by shared interests in renewable energy deployment, trade and industrialisation. This renewed focus is opening doors for deeper energy partnerships, including on green hydrogen, and offers North African countries new opportunities to expand into European markets. At the same time, it raises concerns about the uneven distribution of benefits and insufficient international f ...
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    July 1, 2025
    This Paper was originally published on ettg.eu KEY MESSAGES1. Aligning climate and energy priorities for mutual benefit - North Africa’s solar and wind potential could help meet the EU’s decarbonisation and energy security goals. A longterm, equitable partnership integrating green industrialisation, energy market integration and climate resilience can deliver shared economic, environmental and geopolitical gains. 2. Transforming energy partnerships for a just transition - ...
  • June 30, 2025
    This episode explores the future of Pan-African diplomacy, highlighting the urgency for African states to reinvent multilateralism amid global shifts. It discusses how initiatives like th ...
  • June 20, 2025
    As the African continent grapples with a new generation of complex and interconnected threats, ranging from violent extremism and transnational crime to governance-related tensions and climate-induced insecurity, Southern Africa is also called upon to reinforce its contribution to conti...
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    June 18, 2025
    Bientôt disponible en vente sur Livremoi. Les différentes éditions du Rapport annuel de la géopolitique de l’Afrique, que le Policy Center for the New South publie chaque année, se suivent mais ne se ressemblent pas. Elles ne gardent en commun que leur inscription, dans une même ligne éditoriale, celle qui privilégie l’Afrique en particulier et le Sud en Général. Les différentes éditions se ressemblent en ce sens que leur objet, à toutes, est de permettre à des Africains d ...
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    June 18, 2025
    In 2000, The Economist dismissed Africa as the “Hopeless Continent”—a label reflecting a broader system of marginalization rooted in colonial legacy and post-Cold War neglect. This essay offers a realist reappraisal, arguing that Africa’s growing strategic relevance is not the result of benevolence, but of structural necessity.Amid a fracturing global order and the rise of transactional geopolitics under Trump 2.0’s Bessent Doctrine, Africa has become indispensable: rich in critical ...