Towards an Equitable Partnership in African Peace Operations

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute published in February 2017 a report titled "African Directions: Towards an Equitable Partnership in Peace Operations" by Xenia Avezov, Jair Van Der Lijn, and Timo Smit.

The report seeks to outline pathways to improve future collaboration between African and external actors, and to strengthen their mutual understanding. It offers suggestions based on a series of meetings involving participants from different regions in Africa.

Chinese Arms Transfers to Africa

The UK newspaper, The Independent, ran an article on 1 March 2016 titled "Two-thirds of African Countries Now Using Chinese Military Equipment, Report Reveals" by Ashley Cowburn. 

Drawing on a new report titled The Military Balance 2016 by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, the article states that 68 percent of countries in Africa now use some Chinese military equipment.  Increasingly China is selling more advanced equipment such as unmanned aerial vehicles to Nigeria. 

Africa-Russia Trade Stalled

Pambazuka News published on 11 September 2014 an article titled "Trade between Russia and Africa Below Expectation" by Kester Kenn Klomegah.  He comments that Russian-African trade remains small and Russia has few manufactured goods that compete successfully with products from the West and China.  Africa sells little that interests Russia and African exporters are hampered by an inadequate knowledge of Russian trade procedures, rules, regulations and existing market conditions.  Most Russian exports to Africa consist of military equipment.