As Gulf rivalries extend into the Red Sea, African states are gaining strategic value while facing new pressures on their room for manoeuvre. Priyal Singh examines what the evolving security order means for Africa’s collective agency and Europe’s regional role.

We were honoured to join a stakeholder briefing by the Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa.

The AU–EU partnership should embrace the plurality within both unions, make interests transparent, and enable pragmatic cooperation between coalitions of willing countries, helping to bring proclaimed ambitions closer to actual practice.

This was the theme of the public panel discussion we held at the beautiful Wits Campus in Johannesburg - the third in an event series we are co-hosting with the Wits Society for Macroeconomic Thought Leadership and the Wits School of Economics and Finance at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Both the EU and South Africa seek to reshape critical raw materials supply chains. The EU aims to reduce dependencies on China, while South Africa seeks to create jobs.