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Yusuf Tuggar: Nigeria’s sovereignty test lies in harnessing the youth population’s potential

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By Patrick Smith Verified
| The Africa Report Verified
Former Nigerian foreign minister Yusuf Maitama Tuggar. © Filip Singer/EPA/MaxPPP Published on May 15, 2026 at 06:00 am (GMT +1) Nigeria’s diplomats are navigating a fractured geopolitical order with a style that is ultra-pragmatic and studiously multi-aligned. They do so on behalf of a middle power with unusual potential: by 2050, Nigeria is projected to become the world’s third-most populous country, after India and China, with 401 million people, up from 234 million today.
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Iran: A war of unintended consequences

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By Patrick Smith Verified
| The Africa Report Verified
A vessel passing through the Strait of Hormuz on 8 April following the temporary ceasefire reached between the US and Iran. © Shadi J. H. Alassar / Anadolu via AFP Published on April 13, 2026 at 06:00 am (GMT +1) Seventy years ago, Egypt’s president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal Company then controlled by British and French interests.
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Nigeria’s Tuggar hopes to turn Gulf crisis into energy opportunity

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By Patrick Smith Verified
| The Africa Report Verified
Nigeria’s foreign minister Yusuf Tuggar. © Odd ANDERSEN/AFP Published on March 26, 2026 at 12:00 pm (GMT +1) For the past two years, Nigerian foreign minister Yusuf Tuggar’s in-tray has been dominated by geopolitical and geoeconomic shifts – the deepening security emergency in the Sahel and the fissures in the UN and wider multilateral system – and trying to steer Nigeria through them.
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