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Ethiopia
Obasanjo's diplomatic feat no one-man show

The commander-in-chief of the Tigray rebel forces General Tadesse Werede Tesfay (L) and the chief of staff of the Ethiopian Armed Forces Field Marshal Berhanu Jula (2nd R), with former Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo (2nd L) and Kenya's former President Uhuru Kenyatta (R) after the signing of an agreement between the government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) in Nairobi, on 12 November 2022. © Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP

The African Union's special envoy for the Horn of Africa, Olusegun Obasanjo, has been making the most of the success of the Ethiopian mediation since Novembers's peace agreements. However, it is far from being his own achievement. [...]

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Guns, gold and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

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Paris and Berlin seek to act in unison in the Horn

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