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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 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 9, 2025

United States
Media Briefing: Trump in the Middle East

CFR experts discuss President Donald Trump’s upcoming trip to the Gulf region, including what the trip could signify for Iran nuclear negotiations, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and U.S. policy i…

Play U.S. President Donald Trump takes his seat before his speech to the Arab Islamic American Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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 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.

March 28, 2025

Middle East and North Africa
U.S. Forces in the Middle East: Mapping the Military Presence

The ramped-up U.S. attacks against the Yemen-based Houthis are possible in part due to an extensive military footprint in the Middle East. This includes a collection of permanent U.S. bases and vario…

A photo of an aircraft at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar

December 2, 2024

China Strategy Initiative
China in the Middle East: November 2024

As the UAE and China celebrated 40 years of diplomatic relations, Beijing struck issued $2 billion of dollar-denominated bonds in Riyadh. Both Saudi Arabia and the UAE sought new deals with China and…

Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, UAE Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport to attend the Third Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, China, October 16, 2023.