Leading the African Union – Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball

Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball, brought to you by Jamie Shea, Senior Fellow of Friends of Europe and former NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General, provides a weekly overview of the current and emerging crises or threats in security and defence.

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This week on Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball, Jamie Shea, Senior Fellow at Friends of Europe, discusses Senegal’s newly appointed leadership of the African Union. Recent coups – namely in Mali, Sudan, Guinea, and Burkina Faso – have resulted from the political instability of the continent and suggest a worrying rise of authoritarianism. In face of these internal as well as international conflicts, and with climate change and COVID in the background, Senegal takes up the reins of the African Union at a difficult time.