Removals to Africa: Can Congress’s New Majority Rescue Deportees? The shift in the majority in the U.S. Congress marks the beginning of a new phase in the battle against the White House’s policy of offshoring migration. As the administration steps up forced transfers of migrants to third countries in sub-Saharan Africa with which they often have no ties, Capitol Hill is emerging as a primary political counterweight. Yet, faced with the humanitarian urgency and the Executive’s

By breaking away from traditional multilateral aid to enforce strict bilateral agreements based on mandatory co-financing and direct surveillance of pathogen alerts, Washington intended to overhaul its health diplomacy across the African continent. However, the 2026 resurgence of Ebola in a conflict-torn eastern DR Congo has brought this transactional approach face-to-face with harsh realities on the ground—even as its operational response operates under an emergency exemptio

En notifiant au Congrès l'exclusion de l'Afrique du Sud et du Rwanda pour l'année 2027, la Maison-Blanche a appliqué à la lettre les critères stricts de la section 104 de l'AGOA.

AGOA 2027: Monday, November 2, 2026, D-Day for South Africa The Stakes of Renewal The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) provides duty-free access to the U.S. market for more than 1,800 products originating from Sub-Saharan Africa. Following its expiration on September 30, 2025, this legislation—first signed into law in May 2000 under President Bill Clinton—was initially renewed for one year on February 2, 2026, before being extended for two additional years through th

Le duel sino-américain pour les minerais critiques place l'Afrique au cœur du jeu mondial. L’Occident réplique à l'hégémonie chinoise en finançant des corridors logistiques (Liberty en Guinée, Lobito en Angola) face aux axes rivaux (Transguinéen, TAZARA). Entre quête de souveraineté nationale et pragmatisme économique, les États africains profitent de cette rivalité pour exiger la transformation locale des métaux et négocier de meilleures retombées industrielles.