Interview with Awad Ibrahim "Africa Think Tank Summit 2018"

The author is an alumnus of the 2018 Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leaders program Arable land per capita availability has been steadily decreasing over the last decades, from 0.5 hectare per capita in 1945 to 0.2 hectares per capita in 2016. Worldwide farmers have been, more or less, addressing the intensification challenge by incorporating new technologies, products, and techniques into their farming systems. The intensification challenge also implied a consolidation of the farming ...

The opening of the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea symbolized an important phase in the newfound relations between the two. Since their rapprochement in June 2018, events have occurred at a frenzied pace, yet much was still in the political arena and removed from demonstrating tangible benefits to average citizens. By opening the border, the leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea changed that. Yet the border opening also reveals an insight into a previously isolated and largely closed ...

Morocco’s return to its “institutional family" by joining the African Union (AU) two years ago heralds renewed hope for positive progress in terms of the Organization's stance on the Sahara issue. This comeback, however, also raises fears and apprehensions over possible complications due to an intrusion by the continental organization into an exclusively UN process, geared since 2000 towards seeking a realistic and mutually acceptable political resolution. ...

Le retour du Maroc à “sa famille institutionnelle “ à travers son adhésion à l’Union africaine (UA), il y a deux années, a nourri des espoirs sur la possibilité d’une évolution positive de la posture de cette Organisation sur la question du Sahara. Ce retour a, en même temps, suscité des appréhensions et des craintes sur d'éventuelles complications du dossier par une intrusion de l'Organisation continentale dans un processus exclusivement onusien, orienté, depuis 2000, vers la reche ...