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The Africa Club launched to strengthen the continent’s financial muscle

This Is Africa — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:44:24 +0000

The Africa Club initiative launched at the 37th African Union Summit aims to amplify Africa's influence in the global financial system by aligning its functions with the SDGs and the African Union's Agenda 2063.

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Pan-African progressives Africans Rising elect coordinating collective

Onai Stanely Mushava — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 09:41:01 +0000

New directors will coordinate campaigns for fair global trade, climate justice, borderless movement, political inclusion and other Pan-African commons.

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Wagner group mercenaries in Africa: why there hasn’t been any effective opposition to drive them out

The Conversation — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 09:35:35 +0000

The African Union (AU) and responsible African governments are likely to grow to resent the Wagner Group’s presence and regret their failure to oppose it.

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60 years of African unity: what’s failed and what’s succeeded

The Conversation — Wed, 24 May 2023 11:09:57 +0000

The African Union compares well to other continental unions. It accomplishes more than the Commonwealth or the Francophonie.

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Life or Debt: The Stranglehold of Neocolonialism and Africa’s Search for Alternatives

Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 12:01:23 +0000

Many countries across the Global South, particularly those in Africa, are currently in the throes of fiscal crises. The Third World must re-imagine a path out of our current crisis that doesn’t depend on the IMF, its allied institutions, and Western capital. The last seventy years or so have demonstrated that a reliance on these institutions only serves to trap the Third World in a perpetual state of underdevelopment.

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