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May 30, 2025

South Africa
The President’s Inbox Recap: The United States and South Africa

President Trump has ended an idealistic cooperation with South Africa that obscured rising foreign policy tensions between Washington and Pretoria.  

President Donald Trump with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office on May 21, 2025.

May 28, 2025

China Strategy Initiative
China in Africa: March 2025

Despite Chinese investment in African green energy and infrastructure projects, comprehensive diplomatic engagements, and joint innovation ventures, tensions between countries grew in certain corners…

People fetch water outside a cobalt and copper mine run by Sicomines in Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo, on May 30, 2015.

May 28, 2025

China Strategy Initiative
China in Africa: April 2025

A Kenyan delegation traveled to Beijing in late April, resulting in comprehensive economic dealmaking. On the continent, April saw multisectoral Chinese investment in Algeria and Nigeria, the formati…

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Kenyan President William Ruto attend a meeting at the Great Hall of the People on April 24, 2025, in Beijing.

May 27, 2025

South Africa
The United States and South Africa, With Reuben Brigety

Reuben Brigety, President of Busara Advisors and U.S. Ambassador to South Africa from 2022 to 2025, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss relations between Washington and Pretoria in the wake of…

Podcast U.S. President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa sit next to each other in the Oval Office below portraits of U.S. founding fathers.

May 22, 2025

South Africa
Trump’s Confrontation of South Africa’s President Derails Effort to Cool Tensions

Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies and former ambassador Michelle Gavin breaks down the tense U.S.-South Africa meeting at the White House. 

U.S. President Donald Trump holds up papers and shows alleged news reports as he sits next to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House.

May 13, 2025

Africa Program
The U.S. Approach to East Africa and the Horn

Michelle Gavin, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, along with Joshua Meservey, testified on Tuesday, May 13, 2025 to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The focus of the hearing w…

Ambassador Michelle Gavin testifies to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

May 21, 2025

Sub-Saharan Africa
How Pope Leo Will Approach Africa, Catholicism’s Fastest-Growing Region

As the world’s fastest-growing region for Catholicism, Africa is closely watching to see what Pope Leo’s papacy has in-store for the continent.

A worker in Nairobi, Kenya, holds newspapers with a picture of the newly elected Pope Leo XIV on May 8, 2025.

April 1, 2025

China Strategy Initiative
China in Africa: February 2025

Diplomacy was at the forefront of China-Africa relations in February, with China continuing to showcase its commitment to African countries amid far-reaching policy changes from the United States.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa officially opens the meeting of the G20 foreign ministers at the NASREC conference center in Johannesburg, South Africa, on February 20, 2025.

January 29, 2025

Sub-Saharan Africa
U.S.-Africa Policy in a Second Trump Term

Panelists discuss how a second Trump administration could reshape U.S.-Africa relations, whether security, economic, and diplomatic engagement will deepen or decline, and how to define the U.S. strat…

Play A young girl on a tilling a field with her family in southern Niger, Africa.

January 21, 2025

Somalia
Somaliland: The Horn of Africa’s Breakaway State

The would-be independent state stands in contrast to Somalia as a place of relative stability, and despite its lack of international recognition, Somaliland continues to push its own foreign policy.

A statue of a hand painted in the colors of Somaliland's flag holds a map of the territory.