Welcome, Idrissa! 🎉We're delighted to welcome Idrissa Aya to the Megatrends Afrika team.

He will be with us for three months from September, focusing his #research on economic #vulnerability and #resilience, and their links to political #instability.

Exciting news! We're delighted to welcome Sheila Ronoh to the #Megatrends Afrika team.

Sheila joins us for three months from mid September, focusing her research on political participation of youth and #genZ #protest in #Kenya. Welcome, Sheila! 🎉

#GenZ protests 🤝 civil society organizations ❓

Drawing on 🇰🇪 Kenya and 🇲🇬 Madagascar, @lenagutheil.bsky.social examines how social movements and #CSOs interact and finds they have particular strengths that can be harnessed with a sufficient level of #autonomy from each other.

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Plot twist: Europe is Africa’s largest holder of conventional FDI. 🇪🇺🌍

Marvellous Ngundu examines not only the volume of foreign #investment, but also the sectors to which it flows and its development impact to give recommendations as to how #FDI can work better for #Africa.

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At the UN General Assembly, Donald Trump claimed to have "made peace". But has he?

Narine Karapetyan @berghoffnd.bsky.social and Karoline Eickhoff analyse #transactional approaches in #peace mediation 🕊️, looking at the US-brokered Washington Accords between the #DRC and #Rwanda 🇨🇩 🇷🇼

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🌍As Gulf rivalries extend into the #RedSea, African states are gaining strategic value while facing growing pressure on their room for manoeuvre. #PriyalSingh examines what this evolving security order means for Africa’s agency & Europe’s regional role.
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For 25 years, the #AU and #EU have spoken of a #partnership based on shared “core #values”. Yet, a gap remains between ambition and practice.

Benedikt Erforth and @lenagutheil.bsky.social ( @idos-research.bsky.social ) argue for a more pragmatic partnership.

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🌍 What’s wrong with the world map?

The #UN General Assembly decided to adopt the Equal Earth projection instead of the former #Mercator map.

Karoline Eickhoff explains the differences between the two and why maps matter for how we perceive global power relations.

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🇨🇳 What does #China’s scientific cooperation with #Africa look like?

From digital transformation and #agriculture to public #health and #satellite technologies, cooperation spans a wide range of fields but follows no centrally coordinated strategy explain Hangwei Li and Han Cheng.

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Critical Raw Materials: While the #EU 🇪🇺 seeks to reduce dependencies on China, #SouthAfrica 🇿🇦 aims to create jobs and retain more value locally.

@fraumuellerbln.bsky.social explains in her spotlight how the interests of both sides can be aligned.

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One of the key promises of the G20 Compact with Africa #CwA was to encourage more private investment in Africa.

But has this goal been achieved?

@rthiele.bsky.social and Tomke Necker analyse and highlight the initiative’s strengths, weaknesses and unresolved issues.

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👀Schon gesehen?

👉 die Special Issue 'Afrikas Kraftakt' von @internationalepolitik.de – mit Beiträgen von @denistull.bsky.social @wlacher.bsky.social Christine Hackenesch (@idos-research.bsky.social) und unserer ehemaligen Fellows Cobus van Staden (chinagsproject.bsky.social) und Marvellous Ngundu.