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Inside AfDB’s East Africa Strategy and the Road to a More Connected Continent

Africa’s economic future is being redrawn through the corridors of regional integration, and East Africa is right at the heart of it. The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group’s recent mission.

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Africa’s New Diplomats: Power Beyond the State

Across Africa, a shift is taking place in how regional diplomacy and international negotiations are being shaped. While governments and state institutions have traditionally led the continent’s foreign relations and.

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Africa’s Border Revolution: Free Movement in Focus

In an era where globalisation is tearing down walls once deemed inviolable, the concept of free movement stands as a keystone of modern integration. The European Union’s Schengen Area offers.

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AfDB Approves $5.5bn Fund for Desert to Power Energy Project

Development finance institution the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) concessional African Development Fund (ADF) has approved a $5.5-million technical assistance grant to kickstart the roll-out of the flagship Desert to Power.

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29m People Face Hunger as Drought Ravages Eastern Africa, IGAD Warns

At least 29 million people in eastern Africa are currently facing high levels of food insecurity due to prolonged drought as rains are projected to fail for a fourth consecutive.

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Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in East Africa

By: Wanjala Danson   Members of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) are retooling its counter-terrorism measures against a backdrop of grave threats from Somalia-based militant group, ‘al-Shabaab’. This was.

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Al-Shabab Is Now a “Transnational” Organization- IGAD

The militant group al-Shabab, once a threat primarily in Somalia, has grown and expanded its aspirations, operations and aims, and is preparing to wage a long war in East Africa,.

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