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Africa summit closes with hope for everyday change
For the citizens of a continent whose future is being negotiated in rooms they will never enter, the question that matters most is not who attends a summit but whether anything changes for ordinary lives. The 4th U.S.-Africa Futures Summit, held in Addis Ababa and closing on 25 August, set out to answer that question. Those who left it say they carried away something unusual: hope backed by concrete recommendations.
From paradox to purpose: Reflections from the 4th U.S.-Africa Futures Summit
I have attended enough global summits to know the feeling that often follows them: a full notebook and a quiet doubt about whether anything will change. I left the 4th U.S.-Africa Futures Summit in Addis Ababa on 25 August feeling something different: hopeful, inspired, and determined.
Can Africa take ownership of the AU-US infrastructure deal?
Add us on Google Since the African Union Commission (AUC) and the United States (US) government signed off on the Strategic Infrastructure and Investment Working Group (SIWG) in January, the platform has begun to take shape. Projects are being identified and institutional mechanisms built, as both sides test each other’s ability to deliver on their promises.
Can Africa take ownership of the AU-US infrastructure deal?
Nigeria, Sept. 8 -- Since the African Union Commission (AUC) and the United States (US) government signed off on the Strategic Infrastructure and Investment Working Group (SIWG) in January, the platform has begun to take shape. Projects are being identified and institutional mechanisms built, as both sides test each other's ability to deliver on their promises.
ANALYSIS: A quiet US-AU deal that could reshape investment in Africa
Add us on Google The United States (US) and the African Union Commission (AUC) have announced a new plan to secure investment inflows and develop trade in Africa. The Strategic Infrastructure and Investment Working Group (SIWG), formed on 28 January 2026, will enable senior officials and experts to identify investment opportunities, particularly involving the US private sector. It could strengthen African and US strategic options amid major-power rivalries globally.
ANALYSIS: A quiet US-AU deal that could reshape investment in Africa
Nigeria, April 23 -- The United States (US) and the African Union Commission (AUC) have announced a new plan to secure investment inflows and develop trade in Africa. The Strategic Infrastructure and Investment Working Group (SIWG), formed on 28 January 2026, will enable senior officials and experts to identify investment opportunities, particularly involving the US private sector. It could strengthen African and US strategic options amid major-power rivalries globally.
Joseph Sany, Author at Premium Times Nigeria
The Trump administration and the AU have started a bold journey that could ‘flip the script’ on decades of development...
Africa: A Quiet U.S.-AU Deal That Could Reshape Investment in Africa
The Trump administration and the AU have started a bold journey that could 'flip the script' on decades of development cooperation. The United States (US) and the African Union Commission (AUC) have announced a new plan to secure investment inflows and develop trade in Africa. The Strategic Infrastructure and Investment Working Group (SIWG) formed on 28 January 2026 will enable senior officials and experts to identify investment opportunities, particularly involving the US private sector.
A quiet US-AU deal that could reshape investment in Africa
US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau shakes hands with African Union Commission Chair Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, at the African Union headquarters, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 28 January 2026. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri The Trump administration and the AU have started a bold journey that could ‘flip the script’ on decades of development cooperation, write Joseph Sany and Paul-Simon Handy in ISS Today.
A quiet US-AU deal that could reshape investment in Africa
The Trump administration and the AU have started a bold journey that could ‘flip the script’ on decades of development cooperation. Published on 21 April 2026 in ISS Today By Joseph Sany Senior Research Fellow, Africa in the World, ISS Paul-Simon Handy Regional Director East Africa and Representative to the African Union, ISS Addis Ababa The United States (US) and the African Union Commission (AUC) have announced a new plan to secure investment inflows and develop trade in Africa.
Africa: Five Steps for Africa to Thrive Under the New U.S. Security Strategy Original
America will remain a vital partner, so African governments should expand, not reduce, their options to advance their interests. Relations with the United States (US) under President Donald Trump will likely be an underlying theme as African leaders gather this weekend for the 39th African Union summit. The new US National Security Strategy (NSS) has led some voices to urge African countries' reflexive disengagement from the US.
Joseph Sany on the Rwanda-DRC Conflict and the Risk of Regional War
After decades of poor governance, ethnic tensions and illegal resource exploitation in the mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwandan-backed rebels’ capture of Goma “has the potential to bring … seven countries into [the] conflict” and ignite a wider regional war, says USIP’s Joseph Sany. U.S. Institute of Peace experts discuss the latest foreign policy issues from around the world in On Peace, a brief weekly collaboration with SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124.
Mozambique: Amid Mozambique's Spiraling Crisis, What Role Can the U.S. Play?
KEY TAKEAWAYS A flawed election sparked violence and highlighted Mozambicans frustration with one-party rule. A return to war in Mozambique would lead to immense suffering and threaten U.S. interests. The U.S. can leverage its substantial investments in the country to help resolve the situation Since its October general election, Mozambique has been experiencing spiraling, deadly political violence.
Amid Mozambique’s Spiraling Crisis, What Role Can the U.S. Play?
Since its October general election, Mozambique has been experiencing spiraling, deadly political violence. Many Mozambicans, including the leading opposition candidate, saw the victory of the ruling Frelimo party as fraudulent. Frustration with decades of single-party dominance is mounting. Today, some Mozambicans are looking to international help to save their country, one of the poorest in the world, from a possible return to war. Time is of the essence for such diplomatic intervention.
In Africa, the Need to Engage With Democracies and Coup Regimes
Three West African coup leaders — a general, a colonel and a captain — gathered last weekend to formally ally their regimes in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso. Their meeting dramatized two realities for Americans and allies who hope to see our children live in a world governed by laws rather than brute force. First, any strategy toward that less violent world must elevate Africa to the status of a front-line priority, not unlike Europe.
Joseph Sany on the U.S. Withdrawal from Niger
The U.S. reached an agreement with Niger’s military junta to close two military bases in the country in what amounts to a “tactical setback” for counterterrorism efforts in the Sahel.
Africa: For Peace in Africa, Boost Regional Blocs - - Like West Africa's Ecowas
ECOWAS has proven it can solve crises. But like U.N. and other bodies, it needs updating. As the United States and international partners work to stabilize Africa's Sahel region -- and to prevent its warfare, violent extremism and armed coups from metastasizing into Africa's densely populous and strategic Atlantic coast -- the West African multinational bloc, ECOWAS, has proven its value in resolving crises and promoting stability.
For Peace in Africa, Boost Regional Blocs - Like West Africa’s ECOWAS
West Africa: A Global Security Imperative Anyone paying serious attention to U.S. or international security already recognizes the imperative to build effective strategies to stabilize the Sahel and West Africa. The latest Global Terrorism Index redoubles that urgency, finding that the Sahel’s violence wrought fully 47% of all global deaths from terrorism last year.
West Africa: Senegal Just Saved Its Democracy. That Helps All West Africa.
Surviving its crisis, Senegal bolsters an arc of democracies against the region's coups. Senegal's dramatic transfer of presidential power this week highlights that West Africa, routinely seen as a zone of democratic erosion and failure, includes an arc of resilient coastal democracies -- from Senegal to Liberia, Ghana and Nigeria.
Senegal's Democracy Is In Peril – The Standard Newspaper | Gambia
The looming danger of democratic collapse is a challenge to friends of Senegal and democracy to do better By Johnnie Carson & Joseph Sany The sudden actions by Senegal’s president to postpone this month’s presidential election by 10 months threaten to seriously undermine political stability and peace in a nation that has been a resilient democracy in West Africa, where multiple military coups d’état have occurred in recent years.
Africa: Senegal's Democracy Is in Peril
The looming danger of democratic collapse is a challenge to friends of Senegal and democracy to do better. The sudden actions by Senegal's president to postpone this month's presidential election by 10 months threaten to seriously undermine political stability and peace in a nation that has been a resilient democracy in West Africa, where multiple military coups d'état have occurred in recent years.
Senegal's democracy is in peril
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African Arguments
The sudden actions by Senegal’s president to postpone this month’s presidential election by 10 months threaten to seriously undermine political stability and peace in a nation that has been a resilient democracy in West Africa, where multiple military coups d’état have occurred in recent years. This move poses risks of authoritarianism, violence and economic setbacks for Senegal’s 17 million people, and deeper regional insecurity.
Africa: Suddenly, Senegal Is a New Risk for Democracy in Africa
U.S., African and international partners should join to help Senegalese defend constitutional rule. The sudden actions by Senegal's president to postpone this month's presidential election by 10 months threaten to seriously undermine political stability and peace in a nation that has been a resilient democracy in West Africa, where multiple military coups d'état have occurred in recent years.
Suddenly, Senegal Is a New Risk for Democracy in Africa
Senegal’s Vital Role Senegal has been a valuable international partner for peace and democracy since its independence in 1960 — one of few nations in Africa that has never suffered a military coup. At home, Senegal has used its constitution, regular elections and peaceful transfers of government authority to build a democracy rooted in a social consensus that respects communal and religious pluralism. To be sure, that democracy has remained a work in progress.
MIL-OSI USA: How to Counter Africa’s Coup Problem - Foreign Affairs
Source: United States Institute of Peace The eight coups d’état that have rocked Africa’s Sahel region since 2020 are a flashing, red-light warning: Washington’s efforts to stabilize the region have failed. For too long, the United States has acted on the assumption that jihadi terrorism is the source of the Sahel’s crises and therefore funneled military assistance to the governments fighting it. But Washington must jettison that misconception.
How to Counter Africa’s Coup Problem
The eight coups d’état that have rocked Africa’s Sahel region since 2020 are a flashing, red-light warning: Washington’s efforts to stabilize the region have failed. For too long, the United States has acted on the assumption that jihadi terrorism is the source of the Sahel’s crises and therefore funneled military assistance to the governments fighting it. But Washington must jettison that misconception.
How to Counter Africa’s Coup Problem
The eight coups d’état that have rocked Africa’s Sahel region since 2020 are a flashing, red-light warning: Washington’s efforts to stabilize the region have failed. For too long, the United States has acted on the assumption that jihadi terrorism is the source of the Sahel’s crises and therefore funneled military assistance to the governments fighting it. But Washington must jettison that misconception.
Chad’s Political Transition at an Inflection Point
Referendum a Test for the Next Phase of the Transition Since Chad’s then president Idriss Déby was killed during fighting with insurgents in 2021, Chad has been governed by a Transitional Military Council and subsequently a Government of National Unity led by Prime Minister Saleh Kebzabo, all under the helm of Déby’s son, Mahamat Déby. The president has promised to restore civilian rule. Chad’s transition to civilian rule is now at an inflection point.
Russia’s Wagner Uprising Will Force a Kremlin Reshuffle in Africa
The Kremlin revealed this week that Putin met the Wagner Group’s leader, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, and dozens of Wagner commanders just days after thousands of Wagner fighters seized a southern Russian military headquarters and began an armed drive on Moscow.
Africa: In Africa, Here's How to Respond to Russia's Brutal Wagner Group
Africa: In Africa, Here's How to Respond to Russia's Brutal Wagner Group analysis By Joseph Sany, Ph.D. Washington, DC — Moral condemnation won’t help. The U.S. and West should enable African-led changes for better governance and security. The United States is rightly concerned at the growing role in Africa of Russia’s Wagner Group, which operates as an auxiliary of President Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime.
A Key Election for Nigeria Raises a Rising Demand: Inclusion
Beginning in 1999, as Nigeria ended military rule, its main parties built a tradition to at least signal political inclusion across Nigeria’s broadest communal divide. That is, each nominated one Christian and one Muslim for the offices of president and vice president. And in each electoral cycle, parties rotated the regional origin of their candidates between north and south.
The Latest: Africa’s Coups and Transitions
Chris Kwaja: West Africa West African countries have seen a heavy string of coups, with Mali and Burkina Faso undergoing two each since 2020. USIP’s Chris Kwaja discusses how these coups have stalled regional development, USIP’s work to elevate local community voices for peace, and what multilateral institutions such as the Africa Union, ECOWAS and the G4 Sahel can do to pressure coup regimes to give up power.
Africa: America and Africa Need a New Partnership
Africa: America and Africa Need a New Partnership analysis By Joseph Sany Washington, DC — The U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit — and Africa’s ‘Agenda 2063’ — provide the opportunity. America needs strong partners in meeting this century’s accelerating challenges: climate change, human migrations, pandemics, tech revolutions and threats to democracy. A vital new partner, the U.S. administration has rightly declared, must be a rising geostrategic actor: Africa.
Another Coup in the Sahel: Here’s a Way to Halt This Cycle
A Sahel Policy Reset U.S. and international policymakers need to recognize the Sahel as a core of one of the world’s biggest security crises — a contiguous swath of countries destabilized not by some inexplicable predilection to violence but by a visible root cause: toxic governance. Generations of corrupt, authoritarian rule by elites rather than laws has prevented or undermined democracies, investments and the fulfillment of basic human needs.
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