How Russia is Hijacking Africa’s “Orphaned” Left
By Fidel Amakye Owusu An observation I made 9 months ago. “How Russia is hijacking Africa’s “orphaned” Left. 1. When the independence of many African […]
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Russia Keeping “An Eye” on its Interests in the Sahel: The Lavrov Visits
By Fidel Amakye Owusu 1. Last week, the president of Senegal embarked on a shuttle diplomacy to the Sahel states of Mali and Burkina Faso. […]
Turkey has significant influence in Africa: it could use it to broker peace
By Fidel Amakye Owusu 1. In less than two decades, Turkey increased its diplomatic presence in Africa from a few missions to almost every African […]
Flashback: Women in Africa and the Terror Threat
By Fidel Amakye Owusu 1. The increasing extremist activities in some parts of Africa and their destabilizing effects are taking a toll on local populations. […]
Flashback: 9 months ago, on Sudan and Somalia : Lessons Somalia and Sudan could learn from each other.
By Fidel Amakye Owusu 1. The current crisis in Sudan has brought to the fore the possibility of the region getting engulfed in conflict. 2. […]
Regional Stability: the only sure way Ethiopia can comfortably “access” the coast
By Fidel Amakye Owusu 1. The secession of Eritrea from Ethiopia in the early 1990s technically made the latter the largest landlocked country in terms […]
External events likely to have significant impacts on Africa in 2024
By Fidel Amakye Owusu 1. The Hellenistic civilization that emerged from southeast Europe greatly influenced North Africa. The Roman empire and other political establishment in […]
Why the multidisciplinary nature of security cannot be ignored
By Fidel Amakye Owusu 1. A couple of months ago, I saw an interview of billionaire and tech investor Elon Musk. He was asked about […]
Why Somalia is my country of the year (2023) in terms of physical security
By Fidel Amakye Owusu 1. Many years after Somalia was plunged into a vicious cycle of violence, it was almost always among the countries at […]
Kenya’s privatization policy: necessary but challenging
By Fidel Amakye Owusu 1. Right after the independence of many African states, the idea of development and the approach to it took center stage […]