By Reinhard Jacobsen BRUSSELS | 10 April 2025 (IDN) — The two-day Second UN Tourism Africa & The Americas Summit, which concluded on 10 April in Livingstone, Zambia, has outlined concrete plans for achieving shared goals, focused on innovation, Technical Cooperation, enhanced connectivity, tourism investments and tourist confidence through security. According to UN Tourism, both […]
Situation Report Horn of Africa: Machar replaced as SPLM-IO leader
Europe External Programme with Africa is a Belgium-based Centre of Expertise with in-depth knowledge, publications, and networks, specialised in issues of peacebuilding, refugee protection, and resilience in the Horn of Africa. EEPA has published extensively on issues related to the movement and/or human trafficking of refugees in the Horn of Africa and on the Central Mediterranean […]
Situation Report Horn of Africa: Videos show executions of people in Khartoum
Europe External Programme with Africa is a Belgium-based Centre of Expertise with in-depth knowledge, publications, and networks, specialised in issues of peacebuilding, refugee protection, and resilience in the Horn of Africa. EEPA has published extensively on issues related to the movement and/or human trafficking of refugees in the Horn of Africa and on the Central Mediterranean […]
Russia’s Expanding Geopolitical Influence in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger
By Kester Kenn Klomegah MOSCOW | 4 April 2025 (IDN) — Growing impatience over the fragile security situation in the Sahel region and collective anxiety to uplift and strengthen their Confederation of Sahel States (AES), three Foreign Ministers of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger embarked on a trip to Moscow. Meetings held on 3 April […]
When Are You Going to Get a Proper Job?
By Azu Ishiekwene* ABUJA, Nigeria | 4 April 2025 (IDN) — He didn’t say when his father asked him, but I wonder what the old man must think in his grave. Jonathan Power is now 83 and arguably one of Europe’s most widely published columnists. He was a young freelance journalist when his father asked […]
The Impact of Afrikaner Identity and Apartheid Ideology
By Jan Servaes BRUSSELS | 3 April 2025 (IDN) — Although the names of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, or other (South African) ‘tech billionaires’ are not mentioned anywhere in Eric Louw’s “Afrikaner Identity: From Anticolonial Struggle Through Hegemonic Nationalism to Disempowered Minority,” this book offers an excellent introduction to understanding the ideology and some of […]
Situation report: AU mediators arrive in Juba; Hemedti threatens to invade Sudan’s northern states; Armed men kill 20 individuals in Oromia
Europe External Programme with Africa is a Belgium-based Centre of Expertise with in-depth knowledge, publications, and networks, specialised in issues of peacebuilding, refugee protection, and resilience in the Horn of Africa. EEPA has published extensively on issues related to the movement and/or human trafficking of refugees in the Horn of Africa and on the Central […]
Canaan gangs free 500 inmates in Mirebalais attack; MSS mission faces ambushes, Kenyan officer killed; U.S. to revoke parole status for 530,000 migrants
Haiti Matters is a collaboration under EEPA+, a Belgium-based Centre of Expertise with in-depth knowledge, publications, and networks, specialised in issues of peacebuilding, refugee protection, and resilience. Haiti Matters is a network of people and organisations supporting the Haitian people. The Situation Reports can be found here. To receive the situation report in your e-mail, […]
NATO’s Forgotten Promise to Gorbachev
Breaking a Promise to Russia By Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden | 1 April 2025 (IDN) — History and events have not been kind to Russia. Napoleon’s invasion, revolution, two world wars, Hitler’s invasion, Stalin’s communism, and, most recently, the expansion of Nato, have shattered the Russian people’s equilibrium and self-regard time and time again. At […]
Sewing Sustainability: The High Atlas Foundation’s Zero-Waste Initiative
By Bryn Galumbeck* MARRAKECH, Morocco | 1 April 2025 (IDN) — On 30 March, which marked the third annual International Day of Zero Waste, the international community recognized the urgent need to transform waste management and promote sustainable consumption and production. This year’s theme, Towards Zero Waste in Fashion and Textiles, highlights the pressing environmental […]