Africa Center Commentary & Analysis

Through high-level relationships and a track record of well-respected analysis, the Africa Center speaks directly to the stakeholders who matter, shaping policy on the foremost issues of this dynamic continent.

Event Recap

Sep 21, 2015

Discussion with Rwandan Foreign Minister

By Africa Center

On Monday, September 21, the Atlantic Council hosted a roundtable discussion with H.E. Louise Mushikiwabo, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation for the Republic of Rwanda. After an introduction from Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham, Mushikiwabo spoke about security in the context of ongoing regional integration, emphasizing three concerns: the overly simplified narrative of […]

Africa East Africa

Event Recap

Sep 15, 2015

Discussion with UN General Assembly President H.E. Sam Kahamba Kutesa

By Africa Center

On Tuesday, September 15, the Africa Center hosted a luncheon roundtable with H.E. Sam Kahamba Kutesa, President of the Sixty-Ninth Session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly. He serves concurrently as Minister for Foreign Affairs for the Republic of Uganda, a post he has held since 2005.

East Africa

Event Recap

Sep 10, 2015

Benin’s Democratic and Developmental Progress: A Conversation with H.E. Thomas Boni Yayi and the Hon. Dana J. Hyde

By Africa Center

On September 10, the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center hosted H.E. Thomas Boni Yayi, President of the Republic of Benin, and the Honorable Dana J. Hyde, CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). The Atlantic Council’s event came on the heels of Benin signing a second MCC compact on September 9 with President Yayi and US […]

North & West Africa

New Atlanticist

Sep 10, 2015

Energizing Democracy in Benin

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Benin’s President sees hope in new Millennium Challenge Corporation power sector compact A new five-year, $375-million deal to develop the power sector in Benin will be the engine that will “jumpstart” democracy by contributing to stability in the West African nation, Benin’s President, Thomas Boni Yayi, said September 10. Noting that the “winds of democracy […]

Africa North & West Africa

Event Recap

Sep 3, 2015

Roundtable with Sudan’s National Assembly Speaker

By Africa Center

On Thursday, September 3, the Africa Center hosted a luncheon roundtable with H.E. Ibrahim Ahmed Omer, Sudan’s National Assembly Speaker. Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham gave a welcome and introduction, noting that the visit by the Speaker and those accompanying him—the highest-level Sudanese government delegation to come to Washington in a number of years—comes […]

Sudan

New Atlanticist

Aug 26, 2015

Yet Another Peace Deal in South Sudan

By Ashish Kumar Sen

International community must keep up pressure to ensure this agreement sticks, says Atlantic Council’s J. Peter Pham The international community must keep up its pressure on rival sides in South Sudan if it wants to ensure the success of a peace agreement President Salva Kiir reluctantly signed August 26, says the Atlantic Council’s J. Peter […]

Africa East Africa

AfricaSource

Aug 24, 2015

South Africa’s Bizarro-World Foreign Policy

By J. Peter Pham

Last year, when it was first reported that South Africa’s ruling liberation movement, the African National Congress (ANC), would receive funding from the Chinese Communist Party for its new Policy School and Political Institute in Venterskroon, I and several other scholars—including Patrick Heller of Brown University and retired Ambassador David Shinn of George Washington University—drew […]

Africa South Africa
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Event Recap

Aug 19, 2015

Briefing on Stability and Human Rights in Guinea

By Africa Center

On Wednesday, August 19, the Africa Center hosted a briefing by Corinne Dufka, Associate Director of Human Rights Watch’s Africa Division, who spoke about her recent fact-finding mission to Guinea. The West African nation is scheduled to hold presidential elections in less than two months, and the pre-election period has seen a rise in sometimes-violent […]

Africa North & West Africa

AfricaSource

Aug 11, 2015

Why Lake Chad matters: Tackling climate change, development, and security

By Abdoul Salam Bello

Lake Chad is shrinking In recent years, we have witnessed the dramatic rise of Boko Haram in Nigeria and its expansion into neighboring Cameroon, Chad, and Niger. In addition to sharing borders, these four countries have another valuable asset in common: Lake Chad. The resource remains the primary source of freshwater for irrigation projects in […]

Africa Climate Change & Climate Action

AfricaSource

Jul 28, 2015

President Obama in Africa: Making Liberal Americans and African Dictators Smile

By Bronwyn Bruton

In the many years that I spent working as a civil and human rights activist across East, West, Central and Southern Africa, I quickly learned that there is a surefire way to get a visa into Africa’s most repressive countries. When filling out the little box that asks for your purpose of visit, just say […]

Africa East Africa
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