Blessing Simura

is a Zimbabwean-based writer with interests in politics, international relations, global media, development and security studies.

Blessing Simura

African Union

The African Union’s Most Elusive Dream Sudan, Somalia and the AU’s Unending Challenge of Internal Wars

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The transformation from the OAU to the AU meant accepting that the challenges Africa faced had changed from those faced during the decolonization era. Among the new challenges, the most perverse were internal wars. The AU attempted to invest heavily in mechanisms that would ‘silence the guns’ on the continent. In Sudan and Somalia, it seems that silencing the guns has remained an elusive dream. Read More...
AfricaBest of 2023: EssaysOctober/November 2023Sudan
African Union

The African Union and the Multipolar World Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing World

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The global rise of China in the post-2000 era and the strengthening of other regional hegemons has seen Africa being courted by various powers for alignment and realignment. Since the birth of the continental body, the African Union has struggled to develop into a formidable union in the form of the European Union or a strong sub-continent economy like India and China. Read More...
AfricaAugust/September 2023vol7-no3