Policy Center for the New South presents 10th annual report on African geopolitics in Rabat
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The Policy Center for the New South PCNS unveiled its tenth annual Report on the Geopolitics of Africa RAGA on Tuesday, June 10, 2026, in Rabat. This year's collective work features twenty-six contributions from authors across sixteen African countries. Abdelhak Bassou, Senior Fellow and publication director, moderated a session exploring Africa's position in global power shifts and how its states balance security, development, sovereignty, and regional integration. Bassou highlighted the report's goal to provide a platform for Africans to reclaim the narrative about their continent, a discourse previously dominated by former colonial powers. Hachem El Moummy, a diplomat and international relations researcher, advocated for a paradigm linking security and development, challenging the traditional "stabilize first, then develop" approach. He argued that peace, security, and development are mutually constitutive, a concept enshrined in the African Union's constitutive act and Agenda 2063. However, he noted that 70% of the African Union's operational budget for its missions comes from external donors, and the UN Security Council legitimizes most interventions. El Moummy concluded that the challenge now is to implement this nexus, not to convince the world of its relevance. Jean-Patrick Koa Junior, Director of Communication and Diplomatic Archives at the Cameroonian Ministry of External Relations, discussed the geo-economic implications of the used clothing trade in Cameroon. He r
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