The North Africa Post | EU seeks to protect its ties in Africa amid growing geopolitical rivalry with China and Russia

In recent years, China and Russia have made inroads into Africa, offering economic and military support that the EU has struggled to match. “Europe is retreating from Africa in what seems likely to be the greatest shift of all in the 21st century’s new era of tectonic geo-political change,” says Giles Merritt, the founder of Friends of Europe.