Africa: Kenya Approves Defence Pact With France, As Paris Shifts Focus From West Africa

Africa: Kenya Approves Defence Pact With France, As Paris Shifts Focus From West Africa

Kenya’s Nationwide Meeting has ratified a bilateral defence settlement with France, underlining Paris’s strategic shift away from its conventional West African sphere of affect in direction of anglophone Africa. Signed in October 2025, the accord establishes a five-year framework – renewable as soon as robotically. The settlement will “improve Kenya’s defence capability by entry to…

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South and East Africa to commerce freely in a brand new pact

South and East Africa to commerce freely in a brand new pact

An intra-regional commerce settlement bringing collectively 26 nations in Africa has come into drive after 13 years of negotiations.  The Tripartite Free Commerce Space (TFTA), a pact bringing collectively associate states of the Frequent Marketplace for Japanese and Southern Africa (Comesa), the East African Neighborhood (EAC) and the Southern African Growth Neighborhood (SADC) took off on Thursday…

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