Great lessons from Gaza for African leaders
Olukayode OyeleyeOctober 30, 2023
RECENT ATTACK ON ISRAEL by the Hamas armed militia of Palestinian stock in power from the Gaza Strip and the subsequent counteroffensive by Israel hold some significant lessons for nations on diplomacy, security and hostility management on the need to avoid putting the unarmed in harm’s way by those holding the reins of power. More […]
When wars elsewhere affect Africa
Olukayode OyeleyeOctober 16, 2023
A MAJOR REGIONAL CONFLICT is going on in the Middle East that has the potential of lingering for a while. It has many signs of what will turn out to be of wider ramifications for the region and beyond. To begin with, the humanitarian impacts are becoming evident as the civilian population is now being […]
Coups, regional diplomacy and intra-African trade
Olukayode OyeleyeOctober 9, 2023
NIAMEY, CAPITAL CITY OF Niger Republic, hosted the 12th Extraordinary summit of the African Union on July 7, 2019 in which Africa successfully launched the operational phase of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which entered into force five weeks earlier on May 30. Fifteen months before Niamey, in Kigali, Rwanda, the AfCFTA agreement […]
Why military bases in Africa?
Olukayode OyeleyeOctober 2, 2023
JULY 26, 2023 MAY have become a watershed in foreign military interventions as well as bilateral and multilateral relations in Africa. That a foreign country was told to withdraw its ambassador and armed forces was not new. What was new, however, was the speed and tenacity with which the foreign soldiers and ambassadors were told […]
West’s carrot and stick on Africa’s ‘Achilles heel’
Olukayode OyeleyeSeptember 25, 2023
CONTRADICTIONS AND CONTRASTS marked major events drawing attention on Africa in this month of September. Within four days, two remarkable weather events that tested the resilience of the continent occurred. They were going to lead to disasters of such a scale as to involve death tolls in excess of 14,000. This was just a conservative […]
America’s 9/11, Africa’s prosperity and the West’s sadism
Olukayode OyeleyeSeptember 19, 2023
SEPTEMBER 11 has become a date of global relevance, based on two significant events that took place in the Americas – one in South America and the other in North America. The latter was in the aftermath of the daring murder-suicide and brutal, coordinated terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001. An estimated 3,000 […]
How new anti-French sentiments from Africa may hurt EU
Olukayode OyeleyeSeptember 12, 2023
WESTERN EUROPE now has every reason to feel apprehensive about the recent wave of coups in Africa. In particular, there has not been a worse period for France than this because almost all the coups have happened in francophone countries. The only exception in the past four years was that of Sudan that saw to […]
Role of UN, West in Africa’s failed leadership
Olukayode OyeleyeSeptember 4, 2023
THE UNITED NATIONS General Assembly for the year 2023 commences in a fortnight. The global gathering tagged UNGA 78, an event which will bring leaders from various parts of the world together from September 18 to 26, will entail a lot of speechmaking by world leaders and country representatives as heads of governments. This annual […]
The place of Africa in BRICS expansion
Olukayode OyeleyeAugust 28, 2023
MULTILATERAL COOPERATION got another boost last Wednesday at the end of the 15th BRICS Summit in South Africa. Described as “Johannesburg II Declaration,” with a broad theme of “BRICS and Africa: Partnership for Mutually Accelerated Growth, Sustainable Development and Inclusive Multilateralism,” the report at the end of the meeting in Sandton, Gauteng, laid out 94 […]
Africa’s resources, phantom democracy and West’s meddling
Olukayode OyeleyeAugust 21, 2023
LAST WEEKEND MARKED the fifth anniversary of the passing away of Kofi Atta Annan, a Ghanaian diplomat, who served as the seventh Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) from January 1997 to December 2006. He was the first from the UN staff to occupy that position. Mr. Annan died on August 18, 2018, at […]