🚀yay, after months of research, interviews, data collection here our policy brief on the 🇦🇪UAE’s growing presence in Africa's energy and mineral sectors written with @CorradoCok. 👇key msg and ideas for Europe to manage risks and seize opportunities🧵

🌍 L’Angola e gli UAE mostrano come l’Africa stia diversificando i propri partner. L'UE deve superare divisioni interne, ridurre la dipendenza dagli USA e dialogare con nuovi attori per restare centrale nella regione ✍️ @madprocopio x @ECFRAfrica https://t.co/Zq51VMNFy2

‼️📢 New @ecfr brief Our programme director, Alex Vines wrote a piece on #Angola, host of the current AU-EU Summit. The country is pursuing a strategy of purposeful non-alignment and is becoming an increasingly important “middle power” in the world. 📑🌍👇 https://t.co/qeod7tVBbZ

#Angola is hosting the AU-EU Summit this week. Read about the country’s effort to diversify its partnerships and position itself as a regional logistics, energy and agribusiness hub and what that means for #Europe.‼️👇 @ecfr @madprocopio https://t.co/hlSTIHlrB2

Il governo prova a "europeizzare" il Piano Mattei con 11 intese strategiche fra Italia e #Ue oggi al vertice #Africa a Roma. Sullo sfondo c'è sempre di più il #Golfo. L'anticipazione del @sole24ore sull'incontro di oggi con @vonderleyen e istituzioni del Continente

The original article is on the @ecfr @ECFRAfrica website:

🥳The policy brief I recently co-authored with @CorradoCok "Diversification nations: The Gulf way to engage with Africa" is now available in 7 languages thanks to @WorldnNewWorld! 🌍 English, Korean, Spanish, German, Arabic, French, Russian 🔗 Read here:

@CNRS @CAK_UMR @IDDRI_ThinkTank @pwatkinson ♻️Stratégies climatiques des monarchies du Golfe en Afrique : sécurisation des ressources 📌Eleonora Ardemagni, cherch asso @ispionline 📌@MatthieuBrun3, dir sci @FondationFARM 📌@madprocopio, cherch @ecfr 📌Sami Ramdani, cherch IRIS ️🎙️Martin Collet, ass rech IRIS

Si è concluso il primo vertice UE-Sudafrica dopo sette anni. Pretoria rimane fedele ad una politica di ambiguità, mentre l'UE ha colto l'occasione per promuovere le sue ambizioni attraverso un nuovo tipo di partenariato, scrive @madprocopio 👇 https://t.co/mhXpUh7YSF

Kudos to @hmryder, CEO of @DevReimagined for an amazing initiative connecting China and Africa through one of the greatest forms of cultural expression: fabrics and fashion. Love to see Italian @vogue_italia report on this.

The growing presence of Gulf states in #Africa’s energy transition means Europeans can help improve access to clean energy across the continent. Read @madprocopio & @CorradoCok's policy brief @ECFRAfrica https://t.co/IpTsHeexwa

Thanks @MYBISA for including our newly launched Policy Brief in your 'Take Five'. "Diversification nations: The Gulf way to engage with Africa" with @CorradoCok @ECFRAfrica https://t.co/ZOkXXcAf6q

📢 Come join us on 31 March if you are interested in how Gulf-Africa relations are evolving and the impact on Europe. Great panel with @NawafAlThani @HubertKinkoh @jbdacey. We will also discuss our newly published policy Brief "Diversification Nations" 👉

💡Full Policy Brief: 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐮𝐥𝐟 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 @ecfr @ECFRAfrica @ECFRRoma https://t.co/ZOkXXcAf6q

💡29 marzo, Milano e online - parlerò a Dialoghi sull'Africa organizzato da @africarivista del nuovo policy brief scritto con @CorradoCok per @ECFR su Golfo-Africa! Se interessati al ruolo dell'Africa nell'attuale scacchiere internazionale non perdetelo. https://t.co/4PXIeH6Kx4👇

Join us online for a discussion on how Zambia can leverage increased investment in critical minerals for greater local value addition and broader economic growth, as well as the geopolitical environment amid which this is unfolding. Register here 👇 https://t.co/QapkXzQN2n

📍 Lusaka, Zambia (10 Feb) – Workshop with @unza_zm: Beyond mining - leveraging 🇿🇲 critical minerals for growth @sarahalogan

📍Windhoek, Namibia (6 Feb) – Workshop with @SurveyNam: Turning vision into reality for the 🇳🇦-🇪🇺 minerals & green energy partnership @mytheoz @sarahalogan

@Theo_Acheampong, Visiting Fellow at @ecfr, moderating a panel "From mines to markets" at #MiningIndaba2025

🚀 Kicking off at #MiningIndaba2025 (Cape Town) a packed week of talks on EU-Africa strategic partnerships for critical raw materials, how they are evolving amid global competition🌍 Next stops✈️ 📍Windhoek, Namibia (6 Feb) 📍Lusaka, Zambia (10 Feb) More from @ECFRAfrica team👇

6🤝 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 = 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 Both continents must be aware that they equally own this disconnect and actively work to bridge it. Neither is perfect, but both have strengths to leverage.