2023-07-12 02:11:00
The Policy Center for the New South (PCNS) published, on Tuesday July 11, its “Annual Report on the Geopolitics of Africa 2023”.
This volume is intended as a platform where African authors and analysts recount the geopolitical Africa of 2022, sometimes going beyond the salient events of the beginning of 2023.
In its new edition, published on the sidelines of the 7th edition of the Annual Conference on Peace and Security in Africa (APSACO), the report reinforces the idea of “making Africa tell the story by Africans”. The 30 authors of the Report, from 12 African countries, talk regarding their Africa and appropriate the narrative that depicts the continent under the different aspects of its geopolitical life.
Speaking during a discussion on the report, the head of research in International Relations at the PCNS, Mehdi Benomar, considered that “the function of this analytical research production is also to engage in the battle of narratives that we Africans have a duty to both get to know ourselves better and appropriate an authentic narrative for our continent”.
“This report clearly reflects the commitment of the Policy Center for the New South to produce knowledge, to persevere in the effort to establish a perspective and also an analysis on issues affecting the southern hemisphere”, underlined for his part, the Senior Fellow at the PCNS, Nezha Alaoui M’hammdi.
This year’s edition, published under the direction of Abdelhak Bassou, Senior Fellow at the PCNS, innovates insofar as it is enriched by a new section, which replaces the usual opening chapter “African Panorama”. This is the “African debate” where two researchers from the continent are interviewed by a moderator who takes them on a tour of the African geopolitical year, can we read in the preface of the book.
Some other headings provide raw information. This is the case of “Africa in brief” which, in addition to the now usual “country sheets” (18 countries this year), offers the reader a “chronological timeline” and a “chronological map” of official visits by political leaders in Africa. These headings are the result of work carried out throughout the year by the International Relations Department and the PCNS monitoring and analysis unit.
The Annual Report on African Geopolitics “surfs the African geopolitical waves, passing through the Horn of Africa, which is still threatened despite a semblance of peace in Ethiopia, through the Maghreb where the Libyan crisis continues and the Sahel still in prey to violent and destructive extremism”, underline the authors of this analysis.
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