Ethiopia under the Prosperity Party is a de facto one-party dictatorship and its regime seems to be reinforcing the ethnicity-based apartheid federalism
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Africa
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Nicoletta Fagiolo 17 April 2023Minerals for the growing global market for electronic devices are mined in the DRC, revealing an economic structure based on a resource-death equation - Rabii El Gamrani 13 February 2023On one of Casablanca’s busiest thoroughfares and in the adjacent and centrally located Ouled Ziane bus station, in the construction site of the tracks of the third tram line, hundreds of sub-Saharan citizens camp out day and night, consuming their lives waiting and idle and living on handouts and gimmicks. They are so-called transit migrants whose goal – unlike other sub-Saharan nationals who have chosen to settle in Morocco – is to reach the other side of the Mediterranean.
- Rabii El Gamrani 22 December 2022The Maghreb countries cooperated with each other to the birth of the Arab Maghreb Union. Thirty-three years after, even circulating is hard
- Matteo Fraschini Koffi 24 March 2022Political, economic and cultural factors are influencing the positioning of African countries, and citizens, towards the conflict. Here’s how.
- Matteo Fraschini Koffi 7 March 2022Competition between European and Chinese investments in Africa has become fiercer. Can African nations turn that into new opportunities for sound growth?
- Matteo Fraschini Koffi 3 February 2022A series of accidents and attacks remind ordinary Cameroonians that, after the hype of the footbal competition, ordinary threats will be back.
- Matteo Fraschini Koffi 4 November 2021“Ethiopia could disintegrate like Yugoslavia, with far more serious repercussions”, warn major experts. But no credible international mediation looks in sight
- Matteo Fraschini Koffi 12 May 2021From Mozambico to Mali, from Niger to Burkina Faso, Islamist groups are multiplying their attacks on Western and local targets. Europe should watch closely.
- Nicoletta Fagiolo 21 December 2020Since 78-year-old outgoing President Alassane Ouattara has announced his decision to run again for office, despite the Constitution’s two term limit, nation-wide non-violent demonstrations have erupted across Côte d’Ivoire. The world is paying little if any attention.
