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Africa Program
Africa’s enduring challenges and vast opportunities continues to focus the minds of governments, civil society, and private corporations alike. Drawing on the continent’s complicated history, the Council on Foreign Relations’ Africa program examines this growing strategic and economic importance. It seeks to provide policymakers, the business community, and the general public with a deeper and more nuanced understanding of African political and socio-economic developments.
1 in 4 people on the planet will be African by 2050
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A potential coup against President Mnangagwa offers little prospect of real change.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of today’s violence can be traced back to old problems.
Start-and-stop diplomacy continues against a backdrop of humanitarian disaster.
Beneath the ideological bluster, Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré is just the latest in a long line of African martial impostors.
Tigray seems headed for a resumption of hostilities. It might also become the proving ground for America First foreign policy.
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
The dismantling of USAID erodes the United States’ already limited influence on the continent.
This book explores African spirituality inside and outside of religion, investigating African traditions and perceptions in the study of spirituality across Africa and the African diaspora. It provid…
Complexity is no excuse for the world’s continued inaction on the war in Sudan.
Program Experts
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Economic successes do not obviate the need for political transition.
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Will the U.S. and South Africa recover relations from the brink?
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A warning about soldiers in power, and the folly of cutting off one’s nose to spite the face.
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Is the nascent consensus on state police in Nigeria a political ruse or a giant step towards true federalism in the country?
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Muhoozi’s bizarre and troubling social media presence fans the flames of political violence.
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Rather than a beacon of hope, Burkinabè tyrant Ibrahim Traoré is a pointer to everything that is wrong with the continent.
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What are the terms of the deal the U.S. is trying to negotiate with the DRC and Rwanda?
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President Samia’s quest for a mandate may lead to a pyrrhic victory.
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The leader of the free world appears to have contracted the third-term virus.