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<title>APRI – Africa Policy Research Institute &#45; Amandine Gnanguênon</title>
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<title>Africa in a Multipolar World: Navigating Power in Shifting Global Order, 2025</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ In 2025, Africa navigated a shifting multipolar world shaped by US retrenchment, strained AU–EU relations, the first G20 summit on the continent, intensifying competition over critical minerals, and rising tensions in the Horn of Africa. ]]></description>
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<title>Africa+1 summits: a closer look at the geometry of global diplomacy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The expansion of Africa+1 summitry mirrors both intensified global competition for influence in Africa and a gradual strengthening of African agency ]]></description>
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<title>Fragmentation and Foreign Influence: Emerging Challenges to ECOWAS Integration</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ External geopolitical forces influence ECOWAS&#039;s regional integration efforts, strengthening some sectors while fueling internal fragmentation and weakening collective decision-making. ]]></description>
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<title>Introduction to the Ecowas Policy Analysis Series</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ As ECOWAS marks its golden jubilee, this series examines its strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities, offering ways to navigate a rapidly changing context and strengthen regional cooperation. ]]></description>
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<title>From minerals to influence: Resource&#45;for&#45;security deals reshaping power dynamics in Africa</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Africa’s natural resources are driving a new era of resource-for-security deals, from Russia’s private military companies to US deal-making diplomacy and China’s infrastructure-for-resources strategy. ]]></description>
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<title>Senior Fellow Spotlight: Amandine Gnanguenon</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Amandine Gnanguenon joins APRI as Senior Fellow and Head of Geopolitics Program ]]></description>
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