Category Africa Geopolitics

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Africa Geopolitics examines how power, resources, and alliances shape Africa’s role in a multipolar world. This category looks at great‑power competition, strategic minerals, security partnerships, regional integration, and how African states leverage diplomacy and geography to gain agency, development, and influence in global affairs.

Meloni’s Gas Gambit: Italy’s Algeria Deal Exposes EU’s Energy Disunity

Officials meeting with EU flag and desert backdrop

In a classic display of national interest trumping collective ambition, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni jetted to Algiers this week to seal a bilateral gas cooperation deal with Algeria, blatantly underscoring the European Union's chronic inability to present a united front on energy security. The visit, confirmed in late March 2026, sidelines Brussels and highlights how member states continue to freelance on critical resource diplomacy, leaving the EU's common energy policy looking more like a suggestion box than a strategy.