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🇬🇭🇳🇬 | This week, we welcomed HE Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa and HE Amb. Yusuf Tuggar to explore strategies for rebuilding regional order in #WestAfrica and security in the #Sahel.

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🇰🇪 | This week, HE Dr Musalia Mudavadi EGH joined Tighisti Amare at Chatham House to reflect on #Kenya’s expanding #ForeignPolicy interests in a changed world order.

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How can West Africa strengthen its collective security against violent extremism? YouTube video by Chatham House

🔴Happening now | The foreign ministers of #Nigeria and #Ghana – HE Amb. Yusuf Maitama Tuggar and HE Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa – join Martine Dennis to explore strategies for rebuilding regional order and security in the Sahel.

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How can West Africa strengthen its collective security against violent extremism? YouTube video by Chatham House

🎥 Today at 16.30 GMT | The foreign ministers of #Nigeria and #Ghana – HE Amb. Yusuf Maitama Tuggar and HE Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa – explore strategies to revive West African regionalism and rebuild security in the Sahel.

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Kenya’s expanding foreign policy interests in a changed world order YouTube video by Chatham House

🎥Today at 13.00 GMT | HE Dr Musalia Mudavadi EGH speaks @chathamhouse.org on #Kenya’s role and its positioning within a rapidly changing and geopolitically complex international context.

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📣 Event on 9 March | The foreign ministers of #Nigeria, #Ghana and #SierraLeone join Martine Dennis at @chathamhouse.org to explore strategies for rebuilding regional order and security in the Sahel.

🔗Register: www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/s...

📣 Event on 9 March | HE Dr Musalia Mudavadi EGH joins @chathamhouse.org’s @tighistiamare.bsky.social to reflect Kenya’s role and its positioning within a rapidly changing and geopolitically complex international context.

🔗Register: www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/s...

The devastating conflict where both sides have reasons to keep fighting A strong supply of weapons and a history of long wars make Sudan's conflict particularly troubling.

🇸🇩 | “There is strong resistance within the army to legitimise the RSF in any way, including by accepting its control of territory through a ceasefire agreement,” @chathamhouse.org's Ahmed Soliman tells BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🇰🇪 | This week, we welcomed former Cabinet Secretary and now presidential aspirant Dr Fred Matiang’i to @chathamhouse.org to discuss the outlook for #Kenya’s political opposition in the lead up to elections in 2027, and the prospects for democratic politics to meet citizens’ demands.

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🎙️| Ambassador Philip Thigo and Hon. Neema Lugangira discuss how digitalization in Africa can turn innovation into sustainable development outcomes on the latest #AfricaAware ↓

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African markets brace for inflation amid Middle East crisis African financial markets have been hit by foreign investors selling off assets as they flee perceived risk and retreat to the dollar, weakening local currencies.

🗨️ | “African economies simply do not have the buffers for another prolonged global shock”

@tighistiamare.bsky.social on the fallout from the US and Israeli war with Iran threatening to spur inflation across Africa via Semafor Africa: www.semafor.com/article/03/0...

📣 Event on 9 March | The foreign ministers of #Nigeria, #Ghana and #SierraLeone join Martine Dennis at @chathamhouse.org to explore strategies for rebuilding regional order and security in the Sahel.

🔗Register: www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/s...

📣 Event on 9 March | HE Dr Musalia Mudavadi EGH joins @chathamhouse.org’s @tighistiamare.bsky.social to reflect Kenya’s role and its positioning within a rapidly changing and geopolitically complex international context.

🔗Register: www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/s...

Here’s a War Trump Really Could — and Should — Prevent Donald Trump is fond of saying wars don’t start on his watch and that he’s ended some we never knew possible. That’s at least up for debate, as the US president lays his finger on the trigger of anoth...

🗨️ | “All these conflicts are part of the same regional conflict system, with the alliances helping to shape how they’re sustained and metastasize”

Ahmed Soliman (@chathamhouse.org) on the interconnected nature of conflicts in the #HornOfAfrica region via Bloomberg: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

🌍 | #ECOWAS’ inconsistent responses to coups and the breakdown of public trust in civilian governments jeopardise the fate of democracy in #WestAfrica.

@paulmelly.bsky.social notes that sanctions have failed to deter coups; they appear to encourage them: www.premiumtimesng.com/features-and...

📣The foreign ministers of #Nigeria, #Ghana and #SierraLeone – HE Amb. Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, HE Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa and HE Timothy Musa Kabba – will examine strategies capable of addressing the root causes of rising insecurity in #WestAfrica.

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🌐 | With waning international attention on Africa and shifting global priorities, Professor Carlos Lopes (@chathamhouse.org) discusses how the AU can navigate through these changes on the latest #AfricaAware episode.

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📣 HE Dr Musalia W Mudavadi EGH, Kenya’s Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs reflects on Kenya’s role and its positioning within a rapidly changing and geopolitically complex international context.

🔗 Register: www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/s...

South Africa to withdraw its troops from UN peacekeeping mission in DR Congo YouTube video by CGTN Africa

🌍 | “The #DRC conflict has changed considerably with its overlapping driving factors...the #SouthAfrica government hasn’t made a strong case to its citizens as to why it has troops deployed there.”

@chathamhouse.org’s Chris Vandome via @www.cgtn.com:
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US military base on Diego Garcia: What is its strategic importance? President Trump’s comments regarding the island’s potential use in a strike on Iran show its continued importance in projecting US power in the Indian Ocean region – even in a rapidly changing strateg...

Donald Trump's recent comments show Diego Garcia’s continuing importance towards the longstanding policy of asserting US power in the Indian Ocean.

EU, Tanzania working on 'unfreezing' frozen funds after vote Foreign Minister Kombo flew to Brussels for talks with the institutions after the EUR 156 million stop for electoral violence

🗨️ “The Tanzanian government is genuinely concerned about the international fallout following election violence...At the same time, the effort has not translated into a real push for domestic accountability,” Fergus Kell (@chathamhouse.org) tells Il Sole 24 Ore.

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📣The foreign ministers of #Nigeria, #Ghana and #SierraLeone – HE Amb. Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, HE Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa and HE Timothy Musa Kabba – will examine strategies capable of addressing the root causes of rising insecurity in #WestAfrica.

🔗Register: www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/s...

Chatham House partners with African Mining Indaba 2026 Chatham House staff and associate fellows engaged with national and industry leaders throughout Indaba 2026, the African mining event.

🗞️| At the just-concluded African Mining Indaba, @chathamhouse.org representatives engaged with industry leaders – adding value to discussions about Africa in the global critical minerals race and ways to harness potential benefits for national development.

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📣 HE Dr Musalia W Mudavadi EGH, Kenya’s Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs reflects on Kenya’s role and its positioning within a rapidly changing and geopolitically complex international context.

🔗 Register: www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/s...

🗳️ | The #AU will be tested by its response to numerous elections across Africa this year. @chathamhouse.org's Carlos Lopes discusses the crisis of representational democracy and potential solutions on the latest #AfricaAware episode.

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The war in #Sudan has spiralled into the world’s largest humanitarian emergency and the level of devastation goes far beyond a conventional civil war.

Read Hubert Kinkoh’s latest @chathamhouse.org analysis on the need for decisive #AU leadership: www.chathamhouse.org/2026/02/au-s...

🎙️| @chathamhouse.org's Carlos Lopes reflects on the tests facing AU leadership and how Africa can navigate through changes in the global order on #AfricaAware ↓

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Trump is the ‘elephant in the room’ as the African Union holds new summit Trump's policies on tariffs, foreign aid and immigration have outsized impact as African Union leaders seek 'balance'.

💬“The #AUSummit is likely to be recalibration on both sides: the US testing a more transactional model of engagement, and African leaders signalling that partnership must be reciprocal, predictable and respectful if it is to endure,” Carlos Lopes notes.

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Africa-US relations: The continent grapples with the new world order The US president has shaken up international relations and the continent is working out where it stands.

💬“The key challenge is that to create a united front, leaders should be more focused on regional interests. Sometimes this means that national interests have to be put aside if they want agency in international negotiations,” @tighistiamare.bsky.social tells BBC News.

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The AU summit is an opportunity for decisive action to end the war in Sudan The upcoming African Union summit is an opportunity for African leaders to reset the union’s role on Sudan and take decisive action to end the war.

🌍 | The upcoming African Union summit is an opportunity for African leaders to reset the union’s role on Sudan and take decisive action to end the war, writes Hubert Kinkoh in his latest @chathamhouse.org expert comment.

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