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Geopolitics | Europe & Africa | Cutting through the noise with bold, fact-driven analysis. Advocating for a stronger, independent EU on the global stage. Engage, challenge, discuss. #Geopolitics #EU #Africa

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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Africa's data center boom is real — but the development case isn't proven yet. ~160-180 data centers, just 5.5% of global capacity. Most capital is foreign (US, Gulf). Are these negotiated as development infra with local reinvestment — or as geopolitical competition with better PR?
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, the daughter of South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma, has been accused of duping 17 South African men into fighting for Russia. #Russia disinformation and infiltration in #Africa is real and lethal
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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#agenda2063 #theafricawewant #africandevelopment #investinafrica #futureofafrica #diaspora #economicdevelopment #financingafrica | Wavinya Makai | 42 comments
The Greatest Untapped Financing for Africa's Future Isn't Abroad. It's Here. For decades, the narrative of Africa's development has been funded from the outside: Foreign Direct Investment, external d...
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
In Sudan’s El Fasher, the RSF has killed thousands in days and 11 journalists have disappeared under a total blackout. Reporter Muammar Ibrahim was abducted on camera for documenting the war. This is a continent-wide assault on press freedom — met with deafening silence from Europe and the US.
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
A Libyan presidential hopeful Abdelhakim Baayo — first to register for Libya’s 2021 election — is accused of squandering sovereign wealth fund money while running a Spanish subsidiary. Auditors say he funneled €164k of company funds into a Madrid apartment now worth €750k. Baayo denies everything.
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Sadly, Africa is home to just under one in four (23 per cent) of the world’s children but accounts for more than three out of four (76 per cent) of all children living in extreme poverty. www.unicef.org/reports/stat...
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
🌍 Africa is no longer just at the table — it’s setting the agenda. From the heart of the #G20 Summit in South Africa, the continent is stepping up and making its voice heard loud and clear. The era of “watching” is over — the era of leading has begun. 🇿🇦💪 #AfricaRising #GlobalSouth
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Tragedy in Sudan remains in the West invisible despite its horrific scale. It must be said clearly: the EU spent years supporting the RSF – providing funding, training, and equipment to units that grew out of the Janjaweed militias. Today’s mess is partly a European responsibility!!!
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
In January 2025, a 177-carat diamond vanished in the Central African Republic. With Russia, Wagner’s grip on mines, Rwanda’s shadow networks, and complicit elites are turning CAR’s mineral wealth into a crime scene. Until governance beats predation, resources will keep disappearing. #Africa #CAR
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
fascinating correlation between conflict & human trafficing
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
South Sudan’s finances are bleeding while elites thrive. 🛩️💰 Parliament slashed peace funds to buy a presidential jet & give MPs $50k health perks — even as $1.4 billion in contracts went to firms tied to 3 businessmen close to President Kiir. #SouthSudan #Corruption
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
the war in #Sudan is an ongoing disaster and mostly ignored in the West
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🇿🇦 South Africa South Africa’s REIPPPP turned the energy crisis into opportunity — mobilising billions in private investment and thousands of green jobs. Now comes the harder part: a just transition for coal regions like Mpumalanga. #SouthAfrica #JustTransition #Renewables #COP30
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🇲🇦 Morocco Africa’s solar powerhouse ☀️ The NOOR complex in Ouarzazate lights up millions of homes and shows how smart policy + private capital can drive large-scale renewables. Morocco is proof that the desert can power the future. #Morocco #CleanEnergy #Africa #COP30
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Kenya runs on renewables: over 90% of its electricity comes from clean sources — geothermal, wind, hydro. From Lake Turkana Wind Farm to Olkaria Geothermal, Kenya proves the energy transition works when local resources meet smart policy. #Africa #EnergyTransition #COP30
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The future of climate action is African. While others stall, African nations are turning sun and wind into power, jobs, and sovereignty. The world’s energy transition runs through Lagos, Nairobi & Cairo — not Washington. #COP30 #AfricaRising #ClimateAction
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 07/11/2025
Russia uses its Orthodox Church to expand influence in Africa under anti-colonial guise.
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What Is the Russian Orthodox Church? In Africa, It Is a Tool to Expand Influence
The Russian Orthodox Church is spreading across Africa helping Moscow quietly extend its own political, economic, and military influence.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 07/11/2025
"Clearly echoing Erwin Rommel’s Nazi force, the Africa Corps is the Kremlin’s new expeditionary formation in Africa. ...Like Wagner before it, it is still laden with neo-Nazi and white supremacist symbology." on Russian neo-colonialism in Africa: ecfr.eu/publication/...
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The bear and the bot farm: Countering Russian hybrid warfare in Africa
Russia has many quiet enemies in Africa. Working together, like-minded Africans and Europeans can roll back its troublesome influence.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/11/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “If Trump cares about Christians or anyone else in Nigeria, all he needs to do is restore aid and let babies live,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.
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Opinion | Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do
Murderous attacks on Christians and Muslims alike are a real problem in Nigeria. Cutting humanitarian assistance there is even more lethal.
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Al-Qaeda–linked jihadists (JNIM) now control most rural areas and are choking off fuel supplies to Bamako. A state collapse in Mali would open a new jihadist stronghold across the Sahel — from Burkina Faso to Senegal — with grave consequences for West Africa and Europe. #Mali #Sahel #JNIM #Security
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
As Sudan bleeds, its gold shines in Dubai and Geneva. 👉 90% of Sudan’s official gold exports go to the UAE. 👉 That gold often funds the RSF — accused of war crimes and ethnic massacres in Darfur. 👉 Switzerland imports record amounts of UAE gold — with uncertain origin. #Sudan #UAE #ConflictGold
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Africa's Rising Purchasing Power. While global income growth has slowed, Sub-Saharan Africa has been quietly rewriting the playbook. Between 2008 and 2022, several economies have seen their real GDP per capita (PPP) surge, reflecting deeper shifts in productivity, policy, and people power
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
🚨 Latest figures from Sudan’s catastrophe: ➡️ 11.5 million internally displaced ➡️ 3.5 million fled abroad Europe cannot afford to look away — this is the world’s largest displacement crisis. #Sudan #HumanitarianCrisis #Europe
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Mali’s junta under siege — literally and politically. After two months of jihadist blockades cutting fuel routes and crippling Bamako, the regime is collapsing. Prices soar, schools close, foreign nationals flee. How long before Mali’s military rulers run out of gas? #Mali #Sahel #Security #Africa
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Is Mali’s Military Regime Running out of Gas? - Egmont Institute
After almost two months of an economic blockade imposed by the Al-Qaida affiliated group JNIM, (Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin), the Malian military regime is under pressure to find solutions to...
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Satellite and video evidence confirm mass killings in Sudan. We cannot say we didn’t know. #Sudan #ElFasher #Darfur
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Satellite imagery analysis from Yale University shows detailed view revealing RSF fighters executing unarmed people just north of Sudan’s El Fasher. lnkd.in/ePZFzE3s This is just one site of many - there are many indications of grave abuses as a result of the RSF’s takeover of El Fasher.
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CIR verifies mass killing in El Fasher, North Darfur, following RSF takeover On 26 October, the RSF took over El Fasher following a 16-month siege. Based on verification and analysis of footage… | C...
CIR verifies mass killing in El Fasher, North Darfur, following RSF takeover On 26 October, the RSF took over El Fasher following a 16-month siege. Based on verification and analysis of footage comi...
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
🔋 New research reveals that in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s cobalt-mining sector: • 36.8 % of artisanal miners are in forced labour. • 9.2 % are child labourers. • Average daily wage: US $3.28 (men ≈ $3.52; women ≈ $1.84). #HumanRights #BatterySupplyChain #Cobalt #GreenTransition
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
🚨 Reports emerge of mass killings in Darfur, Sudan — with growing fears of a new genocide unfolding. Civilians targeted, humanitarian aid blocked, and the world watching. We must act now, not later. #Darfur #Sudan #GenocideWatch
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Russia’s Wagner mission in Mali: more chaos, a humiliating retreat, zero results. #Russia #Wagner #Mali #Sahel #Geopolitics
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
💡 The EU is investing billions in Africa — energy, infrastructure, renewables. For Europe, it’s about strategic independence. 🇨🇿 For Czech companies — new markets, partnerships, and a chance to power Africa’s clean-energy transition. #EU #Africa #Energy #CzechBusiness
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Fascinating report: Russia's Wagner’s “mission accomplished” in Mali is a façade. Mercenaries deepened insecurity, eroded trust, and failed to deliver. Lesson for Africa: sovereignty can’t be outsourced. 🔗 thesentry.org/reports/merc... #Africa #EU #Geopolitics #Sahel
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Mercenary Meltdown - The Sentry
August 2025 Download the full report The first Wagner Group fighters arrived in Bamako in January 2022 to assist the Malian military junta in its counterterrorism campaign. Three and a half years late...
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
only one more reason to invite Ukraine to NATO
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Meanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
⚡ “In this new form of war, they’re ahead.” 🔁 “Their pace of innovation and adaptability is impressive.” Even America’s top defense strategists are taking note.
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Cathrin Schaer’s DW piece shows it clearly: US & EU cuts to foreign aid are leaving a vacuum in the Middle East. The Gulf is stepping in — not with neutral aid, but transactional influence. Europe must act now or watch humanitarianism become just another power play. 🔗 p.dw.com/p/4xVaq
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After huge US cuts, who pays for aid in the Middle East now? – DW – 07/15/2025
For the first time in 30 years, in 2024, some of the world's biggest spenders on aid and development cut funding. Now aid organizations in the Middle East are forced to seek new, potentially more dema...
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
While China maintains 65 embassies and Russia adds 10 more in Africa and around the world, the U.S. plans to shut down 30 missions and slash diplomacy by $30B. The world is watching — and choosing. America’s diplomatic cuts are a slow-motion act of self-sabotage. #Africa #China #Russia #USDecline
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
#Russia has reasserted itself in Africa—reviving Cold War-era ties with a new face: mercenaries. The Wagner Group and its successor, Africa Corps, blend military muscle with crime, smuggling, and disinfo ops—reshaping power in the Sahel & beyond. We need a strategy! thanks to #Stanyard(2025)
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This is another great piece on state capture. Countries like USA, Bangladesh, Turkey, Sri Lanka, and Hungary are just a few examples of a captured state by corrupt elites. Check out this insightful article by Elizabeth David-Barrett on the economic ramifications of state capture. lnkd.in/eEX4NuUZ
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
USAID cuts expose Americans, and everybody else, to organised crime www.salon.com/2025/04/03/c...
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Corruption hunters say Trump's USAID cuts just made organized crime groups “much more dangerous”
In slashing the USAID budget, President Donald Trump defunded one of the leading international criminal watchdogs.
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
#Sudan’s war is a humanitarian catastrophe & a geopolitical flashpoint. Mass displacement fuels migration crises. Wagner-backed militias expand #Russia influence. Gulf autocracies exploit resources. Ignoring Sudan risks global instability. #SudanCrisis
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
As the U.S. scales back its global influence, Russia is ramping up its propaganda budget to a staggering $27 million per week in 2025. The Chinese Communist Party allocated $7.9 billion in 2023 for "diplomatic endeavors" - meaning external propaganda. Does America First mean America Last?
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
How does Russia capture states in Africa? It starts with a blueprint tested in the Central African Republic (CAR): prop up a criminalized regime, seize military power, plunder resources, and rule by terror. Now, the Kremlin’s proxy war for influence is accelerating across the continent.
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
As the U.S. scales back its global security role, Russia is expanding footprint in Africa—mainly through mercenaries and disinformation. Since 2005, at least seven Russian PMCs have carried out 34 operations in 16 countries, with Wagner Group leading the charge. #Africa #Russia #USA
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Africa's trade game: Europe vs. China 🔹 EU-Africa: Trade surplus, more FDI, but not enough in manufacturing. 🔹 China-Africa: Trade deficit, infrastructure, but fleeting capital. Africa needs diversified investment, not just commodities. Can the EU step up? #Africa #Europe #China #Trade #FDI
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
This is the right idea. www.ft.com/content/a414...
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Norway’s natural gas windfall should go to Ukraine
The country provides less support, as a share of GDP, than its neighbours
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🚨 USAID funding cuts have life-or-death consequences. 🚨 This isn’t just numbers. It’s lives. #USAID #GlobalHealth
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Ukraine's fight is Europe's fight. 🇺🇦🇪🇺 Security guarantees and strong partnerships within Europe are key to lasting peace. The future of Ukraine—and of Europe—should not hinge on Washington’s mood swings. A sovereign Europe must step up. #Ukraine #Europe #Security
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Now it is up to #Europe to close the mineral deal with #Ukraine and provide security guarantees. #USA is no serious partner
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Europe & Africa @idonotwanttosay.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
History in making
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