In a look at recent initiatives to decolonialise the aid sector, humanitarian professional and STG Policy Leader Fellow Carla Vitantonio finds that big international agencies have something to learn from local organisations taking a collaborative, open approach towards language sensitivity.

The African Continental Free Trade Area could transform regional growth, with key focus on three policy dimensions, argue research fellows Sonali Chowdhry, Martina F. Ferracane and Rohit Ticku (Robert Schuman Centre). These dimensions are non-tariff barriers, the digital economy and improved government procurement policies.

Nearly fifty years after the Portuguese Colonial War, Africans who were conscripted by the Portuguese and disabled in battle still struggle to claim veterans’ benefits. History researcher Carlos Martins has interviewed former soldiers to understand this painful legacy.

In this post, history researcher Dario Willi takes us back to a catalytic moment in the art restitution movement, when the Ghanaian filmmaker Nii Kwate Owoo publicised the innumerable artworks and artefacts languishing in the British Museum, after their removal from source communities in a context of colonial domination.

In this editorial and introduction to the 2022 Black History Month blog series, history researcher Daphné Budasz explains why it is important to make Black lives and scholarship more visible at the EUI.

Foreign direct investment in Africa fell significantly in 2020 due to COVID-19. Independent of the success or failure of the EU’s Global Gateway infrastructure initiative, Africa’s governments can boost the region’s recovery, writes Policy Leader Fellow Umar Kabanda, by improving the conditions for public–private partnerships.

In this article, Policy Leader Fellow Gideon Sarpong encourages West African states to mainstream blue carbon into all policymaking on climate and the environment, including their goals for the Paris Accord.

Policy Leader Fellow Ibrahim Magara walks readers through the security crisis in Somalia, where the terrorist group Al Shabaab adds greater instability to the factious political scenario.

For Law researcher Théo Fournier, France’s pragmatic support for the self-declared interim government in Chad might serve in the short-term, but could easily backfire without a quick transition to a democratically elected leader.

STG Policy Leader Fellow Gideon Sarpong proposes a transformative path to climate finance in emerging markets and developing countries, hit especially hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.