Our latest ISS Today: BRICS+ and the tricky business of balancing global geopolitics, here👇 issafrica.org/iss-today/bric… Will an expanded #BRICS precipitate a new international order, or collapse under the weight of its internal contradictions? #AfricaInTheWorld #BRICSSummit2023

We ended 3 days with 81!! signatories to the BBNJ agt-nearly half all UNCLOS Parties-thanks to the tenacious ocean community not least High Seas Alliance. It's hard to capture the busy-ness of the UN this High Level Week but it was always with good humour & immense patience

A stellar group of scholars, officials and personnel from across the world at #SIIP2023. Great learning experience to understand complexities of Indo Pacific geopolitical issues.

Good to s̶e̶a̶ see: The South African and Indian navies are holding a combined Operational Sea Training exercise in False Bay (Cape Town) this week. The South African and Indian Navy Operational Sea Training teams conducted joint work-up training on board SAS MENDI at sea. /1

Busy developing Standard Operating Procedures related to Port State measures with reps of Ghana's MCS, port & maritime authorities in Tema. The goal: drafting practical & feasible SOPs to be tested in Tema's port with #fisheries inspectors in the next days. #IUUfishing FCWC/CPCO

Kenya set to host the Africa Maritime Cabotage and Blue Economy conference from 8 - 10 November with the aim of promoting the formation of East African cabotage within the maritime sector. pd.co.ke/business/kenya… KNCCI Mombasa Kenya Maritime Authority official State Department for Shipping and Maritime Affairs @ISCOSecretariat

Happening now: launch of the Africa Maritime Cabotage and Blue Economy Conference 2023 at Sarova Whitesands #Mombasa. Follow the live proceedings here: youtube.com/live/QXAfbUflG… Africa Cabotage Conference #AMCBEC2023 Kenya Ports Authority State Department for Shipping and Maritime Affairs Kenya Maritime Authority official KNCCI Mombasa @ISCOSecretariat #amcbec2023

Today is the 3rd Ministerial Conference on Maritime Security and Safety in the Western Indian Ocean in 🇲🇺. Several significant initiatives are being discussed and readied for implementation, not least an African Coast Guards Functions Forum 🌍⚓️🌊🐠🛳️ #maritimesecurity #oceans

Great honour to have been elected as Vice-President of the Int'l Criminal Court Assembly of States Parties (#ASP) for the 23rd to 25th sessions, further consolidating Sierra Leone’s prioritization of international criminal justice and accountability at the international level. I

The eighth edition of Exercise Good Hope, between the South African and German Navies, has commenced off South Africa’s West Coast, although on a much smaller scale than in the past. defenceweb.co.za/sea/sea-sea/ex…

Attention is on Palestine, & rightly so. Let's multitask, & also profile the plight of people in other conflict-affected countries. - Afghanistan - DRC - Myanmar - The Sahel - The Lake Chad Basin - Ukraine - Sudan - Somalia - Syria - Yemen - Ethiopia - South Sudan and and and…

Great to meet two brilliant and fabulous alumni of the European University Institute young African Leaders programme today. Loved hearing about their stay in #Firenze, their travels around the 🇪🇺 #EU and their wonderful experience.

Remember a few weeks ago when I pointed out this could be happening as the next place the Houthis could go? I was told the Houthi wouldn’t be able to. Well.

🌍 Don't miss out on this insightful seminar on the lessons from the Ukraine war and African governments’ role in resolving the conflict 🗓️Date: March 15, 2024 🕛Time: 12:00 - 13:30 (GMT+2) 📍Venue: Online via Zoom Register here👇 issafrica.org/events/lessons…

Congratulations to the Seychelles on their Government ratifying the #HighSeasTreaty! #BBNJ on the way in the #RaceToRatification! Nature Seychelles Blue Economy The Seychelles Islands IUCN IUCN Asia IUCN-WCEL (World Commission on Environmental Law) Felipe Paredes IUCN Protected and Conserved Areas

New artwork by me working with the Financial Times's excellent visual storytelling team: How smart use of sea drones has pushed Moscow’s warships to newly protected bases in the east and enabled trade from key ports to return to pre-war levels.

A few things we'll be watching out for in terms of US-Africa relations under the new Trump Administration at ISS/#AfricaInTheWorld 🇺🇸🌍 (thread):

To illustrate just how nonsensically these tariffs were calculated, take the example of Lesotho, one of the poorest countries in Africa with just $2.4 billion in annual GDP, which is being struck with a 50% tariff rate under the Trump plan, the highest rate among all countries on

This is truly amazing. The Deputy White House Press Secretary is claiming that I'm wrong, and that the "tariff rates" on Trump's chart were calculated by "literally" measuring every country's tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers. To prove it, he screenshots the formula the USTR

Now that US foreign policy has abandoned all pretences, what does this mean for Africa? My latest piece with Ronak Gopaldas squares-in on the shrinking room for manoeuvre for African states against the geopolitical headwinds blowing in from Washington. #AfricaInTheWorld 🌍