Chatham House Africa Programme

📣 22 June at 17.00 BST | Leaders of the world’s foremost climate conference – Negusu Aklilu (CEO, Presidency Secretariat Office), André Ar**ha Corrêa do Lago ( President) and Murat Kurum ( President) – set out how environmental diplomacy can still deliver:

Making the case for COP in a fractured geopolitical environment Leaders of the world’s foremost climate conference - COP - set out how environmental diplomacy can still deliver.

🗨️ Our mutual aid model works in ’s warzone – it’s the future, writes Emergency Response Rooms (ERR) volunteer Alsanosi Adam.

The ERRs received the 2025 Chatham House Prize for their vital humanitarian assistance to millions of Sudanese.

Emergency Response Rooms work in Sudan – we could change aid models in other warzones The grassroots movement received the 2025 Chatham House Prize for its humanitarian assistance to millions of Sudanese in the civil war. NGOs and international funders need to adapt to its innovative approach, writes ERR volunteer Alsanosi Adam.

📣 Today at 16.00 BST | How might an African credit rating agency improve the continent's financing conditions? — in collaboration with Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

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How might an African credit rating agency improve the continent's financing conditions? The African Union has launched an initiative for the new African Cr...

📣 Chatham House Africa Programme researchers are attending in Lubumbashi!

Join our technical workshop in partnership with Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and UNDP Africa on 18 June at 15.05 CAT ↓

🇰🇪 | Though Kenya has attended three G7 summits since 2017, its presence this year has been spotlighted by South Africa’s reported exclusion following US pressure.

Read Fergus Kell’s latest on Kenya’s chance to speak up on global economic imbalances for Chatham House:

Kenya’s G7 role must address the economic pressures fuelling domestic criticism of President Ruto Kenya has felt the pressures of costly debt, risk-averse Western investment and China’s industrial dominance. The G7 summit on global economic imbalances is a chance to speak up.

🇰🇪 | Kenya has felt the pressures of costly debt, risk-averse Western investment and China’s industrial dominance. The G7 summit on global economic imbalances is a chance to speak up, writes Chatham House’s Fergus Kell in his latest expert comment:

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🎙️| 15 May 2026 marked the official end of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s term; yet no election date was set for ’s next political transition.

Professor Afyare Abdi Elmi and Aweis Ahmed discuss the country’s political impasse and pathways for a peaceful political transition on : https://pod.link/1551785390/episode/MzNlYjA2YTEtMGJiZi00NWE5LTg0ZjAtYjI5YTI1NGZhZGEw