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For this reason, the entire continent will follow events in Sudan over the next few months with the greatest interest.
Africa is keen that the Sudanese leadership cooperate effectively to manage this delicate situation, in the interest of the continent as a whole.
A Sudan that truly embodied “the exemplary essence” of respect for diversity of which al-Nimeiry spoke would serve as a catalyst for peace and stability on our continent.
At the time, authoritarian regimes took credit for the economic boom, because they had reestablished stability and order on the continent.
The future will not belong to Asia merely because it is the world’s largest, most populous, and fastest-developing continent.
The United States, however, a continent of a country, can fool itself more easily by thinking that the only things that "matter take place within its own borders.
In fact, Africa’s Agenda 2063 framework, adopted by the African Union in 2013, aims to establish the continent as a collection of “learning economies”: diversified, education- and innovation-driven, with a higher position in global production chains than extraction of raw materials.
If the rest of the continent were to follow the British example and opt for the nineteenth over the twenty-first century, the EU would disintegrate.
Europeans should watch the Irish issue closely, because there is even more potential for a return of such conflicts on the continent.
It is argued across the continent that a more flexible exchange rate for the Yuan will reduce China’s unfair advantage in international markets.
Unfortunately, the continent is not well positioned for these challenges.
Her choice may well shape the future of the continent.
The Continent reunited in liberty: Germany on October 3, 1990;Europe with the great European Union enlargement of May 1, 2004.
Today, more than $25 billion has been raised across the continent – $7 billion in 2014 alone.
This should be followed by a determined strategy to end Africa's position as the "ghetto continent," one used by the industrialised countries--in collusion with most African rulers--as a dumping ground for obsolete products.
A program for African renewal along the lines outlined above offers the best hope for creating stability, new jobs, and establishing democracy in a continent that desperately needs all three.
But, while some sources indicate that there are now more middle-class families in Africa (defined as having annual incomes in excess of $20,000) than in India, the continent also contains countries with the world’s highest levels of inequality.
For southern Africa – indeed, for the continent as a whole – global competitiveness requires diversification to higher value-added and manufactured exports.
While the continent shows great diversity in the socioeconomic trajectories, growth rates have generally masked an underlying lack of structural transformation.
This will end Europe's Cold War division for good and foreclose any return to the darker chapters of the continent's past.
The latter proposal is a non-starter, not only because of the budgetary sacrifices it would entail, but also because it would create significant military imbalances on the continent.
What matters, then, is how those resources are invested, and whether we have the capacity and infrastructure to facilitate joint NATO missions and US operations on and around the continent.
In this context, Europe may be a tired, aging, and depressed continent, but, as its luxury and aeronautics industries attest, it would be premature to bury it.
The European Parliament recently enacted a law to support investors who help the Continent reach its goal of sourcing 20% of its power from renewable energy by 2020.
Latin America’s Anti-Corruption CrusadeMEXICO CITY – Even as much of Latin America engages in almost hyperbolic celebrations over the renewed diplomatic ties between Cuba and the United States, the continent is facing two major challenges.
But another ghost haunts the continent: economic ignorance about Latin America in the capitals of the West.
But the reality turned out to be very different; member states’ interventionist measures have in fact created distortions and irregularities up and down the Continent.
Coming at a time when the Greek crisis remains unsettled and the continent’s economy is fragile, a decision to leave the EU could destabilize the entire continent – something only Russian President Vladimir Putin or the leaders of the so-called Islamic State would like to see.
One million people have now signed petitions, and a month from now, on June 16, the international Day of the African Child, there will be vigils in every continent of the world.
But Europe's criticisms, no matter how sound, will not be taken seriously by the US so long as the Continent continues to free-ride on America's defenses, something it has done for half-a-century.
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