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            <title>Instant payments outpace Central Africa’s anti-money laundering controls</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The region has joined an African cross-border payment system built for speed and trade – but it could accelerate financial crime. Sending money from N’Djamena to Nairobi has long meant routing it through banks in Europe or the United States, converting it twice, and waiting weeks for it to arrive. A new African payment system promises to do it in seconds. However, speed brings new opportunities not only for trade but also for financial crime.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The increased influence of Museveni’s son in government and his position as military chief threaten Uganda’s democracy. Uganda’s January elections, which handed President Yoweri Museveni, 81, a seventh term, have heightened political debate over his succession. Government and opposition actors have positioned themselves as potential successors, with Museveni’s son, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, military chief of the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF), the apparent front-runner.]]></description>
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            <title>Credible elections are no longer possible in South Sudan – what next? </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Attention should shift to preserving the peace deal that underpins the current government and is key to averting large-scale violence. South Sudan’s cabinet last week approved legal amendments in preparation for the December 2026 elections. The day before, on 10 September, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan reported that the country lacked ‘many of the safeguards and conditions for peaceful and credible polls’ – an assessment the government swiftly rejected.]]></description>
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            <title>Chad’s anti-corruption institutions buckle under political pressure</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[An aborted oil sector audit exposes the gulf between Chad’s commitments and its willingness to investigate powerful interests. On 12 August, Chad’s National State Security Agency arrested an audit team from the country’s Independent Anti-Corruption Authority (AILC). The AILC had been investigating the management by Chad’s state-owned National Hydrocarbons Company (SHT) of crude oil bought by Glencore.]]></description>
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            <title>Africa fights for a fair share of global tax</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Tough negotiations for a UN tax agreement have not yet resolved fundamental differences. African countries and other global south members are negotiating at the United Nations (UN) in New York to establish a UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation for a fairer international tax system. This is to ensure multinational corporations pay appropriate tax where they do business, rather than in tax havens.]]></description>
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            <title>Will monitoring of eastern DRC’s ‘ceasefire’ improve compliance?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The first deployment of the monitoring mechanism is positive, but current conflict conditions should temper expectations. The first mission to verify the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ceasefire agreed in November 2025 began its work in South Kivu on 24 August. But can facts be established in a fragmented and polarised context? And can the mission’s findings change how warring parties assess the costs, risks and benefits of continued fighting?]]></description>
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            <title>Can Africa take ownership of the AU-US infrastructure deal?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Early momentum is real, but AU member states, private capital and wary US investors have yet to be brought on board. Since the African Union Commission (AUC) and United States (US) government signed off on the Strategic Infrastructure and Investment Working Group (SIWG) in January, the platform has begun to take shape. Projects are being identified and institutional mechanisms built, as both sides test each other’s ability to deliver on their promises.]]></description>
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            <title>Europe’s heatwave warning for Africa: fast-track a climate leapfrog </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A looming super El Niño makes Africa’s leap from fossil fuels to a renewables-dominated energy mix urgent. The heatwave that swept Europe this summer claimed at least 35 000 lives. Other parts of the world were also affected, with heatwaves in India, wildfires in Indonesia and a glacial melt-related flood disaster in Nepal, all of which left a path of devastation.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Has the AU successfully taken Africa’s G20 baton from South Africa?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Africa’s G20 priorities have lost ground under the US presidency, with little pushback from the AU or other development-focused members. Has the African Union (AU) taken up the continent’s baton from South Africa after United States (US) President Donald Trump evicted Pretoria from the G20 presidency? That left the AU, which only joined in 2023, as Africa’s only voice in the group. South Africa has been a member since the G20’s founding in 1999.]]></description>
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            <title>UN peace operations review may struggle to deliver for Africa</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The review report reflects some of Africa’s demands, but major challenges threaten the implementation of its recommendations. The long-awaited United Nations (UN) Secretary-General’s report on the review of UN peace operations has generated considerable interest. These operations and peacekeeping in particular, face a chronic funding crisis and reduced support from member states, host nations and regional actors.]]></description>
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