Browsing: Conflicts in Africa

• The long-term effects of Covid-19 and the climate crisis are felt more acutely in Africa than elsewhere.
• Africa’s additional financing needs resulting from the pandemic will amount to $285 billion over the four years ending 2025.
• Sub-Saharan Africa endured a recession in 2020 for the first time in 25 years.

NEW YORK – Africa bears virtually no responsibility for the greenhouse-gas emissions driving the climate crisis. It is not responsible for the conflicts or supply-chain disruptions that have driven global inflation. Nor did it trigger the spread of COVID-19, let alone cause the pandemic’s economic fallout. And yet the long-term effects of this trio of crises linger perhaps more acutely in Africa than elsewhere.

Africa grappling with anemic economic growth

The International Monetary Fund has estimated that Africa’s additional financing needs resulting from the pandemic will amount to $285 billion over the four years ending in 2025. But inflation, exchange-rate …

Amid increasing cases of terrorism and conflicts between member states, African countries have been allocating more money to defence to protect their citizens and businesses.

As of July 2022, nine African countries allocated over US$1 billion dollars each to their defence departments, according to Statista, a German company specialising in market and consumer data.

Data by Statista indicated that Algeria tops the list of African countries with the highest defence budgets in the continent. Algeria is followed by Nigeria, Morocco, Egypt, Libya and South Africa in that order. Overall, the list is dominated by countries in North Africa faced with internal and external aggressions.…