Open Dialogue Research Journal
Guinea sits on the largest iron ore reserve on earth, and for the first time in its history it is exporting from it. The Simandou mines began production in November, and the country shipped 6.8 million tons of ore in the first half of this year. The scale of the […]
The race to choose the next United Nations secretary general has acquired an uncomfortable test case. The candidacy of Lana Nusseibeh, a minister of state of the United Arab Emirates and a former UAE ambassador to the UN, is reported to be gaining momentum and endorsements. It has also provoked […]
In December 2025 a US-sanctioned tanker, the Reef, arrived in Myanmar’s waters with about 113,000 barrels of fuel. The paperwork said the cargo was South African diesel. In reality, it was jet fuel from Iran. The case, reconstructed from contracts, regulatory letters, shipping records and satellite analysis, shows in unusual […]
The third Russia–Africa Summit has just wrapped up in Gostiny Dvor and the Grand Kremlin Palace. Forty-eight delegations. Twenty-two heads of state. A final declaration, an Action Plan for 2027–2029, and a separate document on the civilian use of artificial intelligence. If in 2019 in Sochi the two sides were […]
This fact combines with Russia’s positive reputation in their eyes to explain why so many of the continent’s countries are nowadays eagerly expanding cooperation with it despite Western pressure. Moscow hosted the third Russia-Africa Summit this week, which has been held every couple of years since the inaugural one in […]
Part I Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, al-Qaeda no longer looks like the organization that carried them out. Its numbers have grown, its territory has expanded, and its center of operations has moved thousands of miles from where it began – yet, by most measures, its capacity and […]
Sub-Saharan Africa is growing a little faster than expected, and that is notable because the global background is hostile. In its semi-annual Africa Economic Update, published on Tuesday, the World Bank projected regional growth of 4.3% in 2026, up from 4.1% last year and 0.3 percentage point above its April […]
Recent events in Ethiopia demonstrate how the middle powers of the region are trying to project their interests and use the emerging opportunities to destabilize their geopolitical opponents. On September 23, large–scale fighting began in Tigray, Akhmara and Afar provinces as the so-called Alliance for Survival began attacking government forces […]
Twenty-five years after al-Qaeda struck Washington and New York, the organization’s most active theater of operations isn’t in the Middle East or South Asia – it’s in a stretch of West Africa most Americans would struggle to locate on a map. New figures from the conflict monitor Acled show violence […]
When Aliko Dangote’s oil refinery began listing shares on the Nigerian stock exchange, it wasn’t just Africa’s largest-ever public offering – it was the culmination of a bet that reshaped an entire country’s relationship with its own oil. If the flotation of Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals goes as planned, […]
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