03/12/2019
In 2017, the coming to power of João Lourenço put an end to nearly four decades of rule by the former head of state, José Eduardo Dos Santos.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Founded in 2007, the Sub-Saharan Africa Center of the French Institute of International Relations - Ifri works to address the cross-disciplinary issues that the African continent is facing. The Center achieves its mission through quality analyses available in various formats.
Aimed at renewing interpretative frameworks and nurturing public debate, the Center’s expertise offers helpful tools for policy-makers in Africa. The Center also provides analyses for some key actors in Africa such as the French Ministry of the Armed Forces (Ministère des Armées), the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères), International Crisis Group, the OECD or the World Bank.
Launched in 2008, l’Afrique en questions covers topics of broad and current interest. In addition, the Policy Papers and Reports published by the Center provide more comprehensive analyses. These publications are combined with public events where politicians, academics, companies and civil society can promote dialogue about Africa and share analytical tools.
Afrique Décryptages, the Sub-Saharan Africa Center’s blog, provides information regarding the Center's activities, publication announcements, conference reports, and links to the Center's research fellows’ public appearances. Afrique Décryptages also works as a forum where the research fellows share their opinions about topical issues and stimulate debates and discussions.
Alain ANTIL
Research Fellow, Director of Ifri's Sub-Saharan Africa Center
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Sina SCHLIMMER
Research Fellow, Coordinator of the Governing the Urban Transition in Africa research programme, Ifri's Sub-Saharan Africa Center
Benjamin AUGE
Associate Research Fellow, Sub-Saharan Africa Center / Center for Energy and Climate
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François GAULME
Associate Research Fellow, Sub-Saharan Africa Center
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Mathieu PELLERIN
Associate Research Fellow, Sub-Saharan Africa Center
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Thierry VIRCOULON
Associate Research Fellow,Sub-Saharan Africa Center
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18/09/2019
With the expansion of modern production and consumption patterns to large African cities, population growth and urbanization, production of municipal waste has risen sharply. Unregulated dumps are becoming numerous and have strong negative health effects by polluting the local environment....
13/09/2019
Only devised a few years ago, the concept of the Indo-Pacific seeks to express a new configuration of the world’s globalization. In terms of economic exchange and power distribution, the Indo-Pacific is a unitary region spanning from the Persian Gulf to the Pacific, where all the major powers...
13/09/2019
With sluggish economies that create few jobs, soaring demographics, international aid often considered as revenue, and a security apparatus unable to protect national territory and its population, are the Sahel states losing control of their own domestic areas?
27/08/2019
RAMSES 2020. A World without a Compass?, written by Ifri's research team and external experts, offers an in-depth and up-to-date analysis of geopolitics in today’s world.
23/08/2019
The G7 has made the fight against inequality a crosscutting issue for the Biarritz Summit. The Development Ministerial will address issues of vulnerability, especially the Sahel Alliance. This focus on inequalities and vulnerabilities is nonetheless inseparable from a general discussion on...
23/08/2019
Global governance emerged to deal with the gap between the plurality and diversity of states and the collective and transnational nature of increasingly complex global affairs.
Sub-Saharan Africa - Americas - United States - Asia - China
23/08/2019
The Think Tank 7 (T7) is an engagement group that brings together the leading Think Tanks from the G7 countries in order to analyze and make recommendations on key issues of the G7 presidency.
Economy - Energy & Climate - Sub-Saharan Africa - Americas - United States - Asia - China - Europe
04/06/2019
Mauritania's political system displays certain democratic qualities that go some way to meeting international standards.
04/06/2019
Elections are held on a regular basis in various African countries, but democracy is far from flourishing.
11
Jun
2010
from 09:00 to 10:30
- Conférences
Obama administration's Strategy for Africa
Event organized in partnership with the French-American Foundation
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11
Jun
2010
from 09:00 to 10:30
- Conférences
Obama administration's Strategy for Africa "Promoting Stability and Democracy in Africa: Through Collaborative Diplomacy"
Event organized in partnership with the French-American Foundation
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25
May
2010
16
Apr
2010
from 09:00 to 11:00
- Conférences
Zuma Administration: Drift or Shift?
On the 10th of May, controversial Jacob Zuma will celebrate his first year as President of the Republic of South Africa; position where many analysts did not think he would fit the job. What is the situation one year later? While he claims to be in Nelson Mandela's tradition, Marianne Séverin...
16
Apr
2010
from 09:00 to 11:00
- Conférences
Zuma Administration: Drift or Shift?
On the 10th of May, controversial Jacob Zuma will celebrate his first year as President of the Republic of South Africa; position where many analysts did not think he would fit the job. What is the situation one year later? While he claims to be in Nelson Mandela's tradition, Marianne Séverin...
02
Apr
2010
from 09:30 to 11:00
- Conférences
Transitions but no Democracy: is a New Type of Regime developing in Sub-Saharan Africa? The case of Nigeria
Sub-Saharan African hopes of democratization raised by the end of the cold war and the decline in the number of single party states are giving way to disillusionment. Most of the African states are now ruled by regimes that are neither military juntas nor parliamentary democracies. Despite...
02
Apr
2010
from 09:30 to 11:00
- Conférences
Transitions but no Democracy: is a New Type of Regime developing in Sub-Saharan Africa? The case of Nigeria
Sub-Saharan African hopes of democratization raised by the end of the cold war and the decline in the number of single party states are giving way to disillusionment. Most of the African states are now ruled by regimes that are neither military juntas nor parliamentary democracies. Despite...
16
Mar
2010
from 17:30 to 19:30
- Conférences
The African Development Indicators 2010 World Bank's Report
With the participation of Shanta Devarajan, Chief Economist of the Africa Region at the World Bank, Jorge Saba Arbache,Director, Africa Development Indicators Project, Jean-Marc Gravellini, Director of AFD's Africa department, Philippe Montigny, Président ETHIC Intelligence International...
16
Mar
2010
from 16:30 to 18:30
- Conférences
The African Development Indicators 2010
With the participation of Shanta Devarajan, Chief Economist of the Africa Region at the World Bank, Jorge Saba Arbache,Director, Africa Development Indicators Project, Jean-Marc Gravellini, Director of AFD's Africa department,
28
Jan
2010
from 17:30 to 19:30
- Conférences
Doing Business in Democratic Republic of Congo
Conference around Olivier Kamitatu, Planning Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Karim Dahou, Executive Programme Manager, NEPAD-OECD Africa Investment Initiative.
...The Sub-Saharan Africa program and its Associate Fellows are accustomed to sharing their expertise with the media. Our experts mainly speak French, but they can also intervene in English. Consult our researchers’ geographic and thematic specialties on their profile.