
On Saturday, Djibouti’s Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf was elected as the new Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission.

With the death of former Federal President Horst Köhler, the German Africa Foundation has lost an active supporter of our work. Last week, he was the patron of the symposium commemorating 140 years of the Berlin Conference 1884/85. Horst Köhler was deeply committed to coming to terms with Germany’s colonial past, as he expressed in his opening speech, which you can read here.

Yearbook of the German Africa Foundation 2023/2024 with numerous exciting articles on topics on which we have been working since the second half of 2023 and which reflect current events in Africa policy. For example, you will find articles on skilled labour migration, the reform of international financial institutions and the elections in Senegal and the D.R. Congo. In addition to other economic topics such as digitalisation and youth employment, there are also interviews and articles on media and culture.
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