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Why Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan should ditch a rushed, Washington-brokered Nile Treaty (Brookings)
Trump’s Travel Ban Benefits Only China (Project-Syndicate)
If the US wants to counter Chinese influence in Africa, greater engagement with Nigeria seems like a no-brainer. But, with its decision to include Africa’s largest economy in its expanded long-term travel ban, President Donald Trump’s administration is doing just the opposite.
Cobus van Staden is a senior foreign policy researcher at the South African Institute of International Affairs
Figures of the week: Public spending on education in Africa (Brookings)
Finance for renewable energy in Africa follows colonial roots (openDemocracy)
Investments into renewable energy in Africa are critical. But they need to take local ownership and participation seriously.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/finance-renewable-energy-africa-follows-colonial-roots/
Steffen Haag
Africa Must Choose Renewables Over Coal (Project-Syndicate)
African governments should strengthen strategies and policies aimed at encouraging the transition to a new climate economy and increasing investment in clean energy. By phasing out fossil fuels, Africa can lead by example in the global effort to combat climate change.
Carlos Lopes, a professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of Cape Town, is High Representative of the African Union for partnerships with Europe and a member of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate
Young Africa Works: A strategy to create 30 million jobs for youth over the next decade (Brookings)
Africa Is the Last Frontier for Global Growth (Project-Syndicate)
If Africa sustains and accelerates structural reforms over the next half-century, some believe that the continent can emulate China’s rapid rise of the last 50 years. But success is far from guaranteed, even as the consequences of failure would be grave – and global.
Colin Coleman, a former CEO for Goldman Sachs in Sub-Saharan Africa, is a senior fellow and lecturer at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University.
La via del riscatto per l’Africa (L’Osservatore Romano)
L’Africa è un continente profondamente segnato dai paradossi della globalizzazione. Le contraddizioni sono tali per cui s’impone, mai come oggi, l’esigenza d’imprimere una svolta capace d’innescare dei processi di cambiamento, di tracciare dei percorsi in grado di favorire l’agognato sviluppo. Come mai, ad esempio, un continente eccezionalmente ricco di materie prime e capitale umano non riesce a sfruttare adeguatamente le proprie risorse? Perché l’esclusione sociale è tale da essere sistemica in tutte le sue manifestazioni? A questo proposito, sia nell’Evangelii gaudium come anche nella Laudato si’, Papa Francesco ha rilevato che alla radice dell’insostenibilità socio-economica ed ambientale c’è sempre un modello di sviluppo scorretto, fondato su assunti economici fallaci. Si tratta di un’osservazione pertinente che esige una decisa assunzione di responsabilità da parte del consesso delle nazioni a livello planetario perché, alla prova dei fatti, le attuali dinamiche in atto mirano sempre e comunque alla massimizzazione dei profitti, provocando una costante sperequazione tra le classi sociali.
http://www.osservatoreromano.va/it/news/la-del-riscatto-sociale-lafrica
di Giulio Albanese
Lutte contre le terrorisme en Afrique : « La France et les Etats-Unis sont de moins en moins alignés » (IFRI)
Pour Elie Tenenbaum, chercheur à l’IFRI, Washington est moins préoccupé par la menace terroriste que par la présence de la Chine et de la Russie sur le continent.
Elie TENENBAUM, interviewé par Nathalie Guibert, pour Le Monde Afrique