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Keeping the Twit in Twitter. Motorcycle columnist for the Daily Mirror, editor of Microlight Flying magazine and best selling author Geoff Hill has over 1798 followers on Twitter.

Djibouti’s ports have become a prime location for geostrategic competition

China dominant in Djibouti port spat

There are only two sea routes linking Europe with East Africa and much of Asia. Either you sail around the Cape of Good Hope or through the Suez Canal

Africa braces for high-stakes Davos meet

Africa braces for high-stakes Davos meet

Trump will be the star at Davos. Love or hate him, he’s likely to be the only head of state whose speech will be broadcast on all the news channels

Protestors disrupted the only public event staged by the United States at the UN meeting in Bonn

Washington seeks out like minds on climate change

Washington has spent the week seeking out like minds at a climate-change conference that ended last night in Germany.

Where to begin: Trump, the Paris Agreement and Africa’s poverty

Countries like the USA are expected to cut emissions now, while China can go on polluting until 2030, then trim its footprint

Can you dig it? When climate change naysayers are as powerful as the president-elect of the United States

Wintertime and the livin’ is easy

Britain, Europe and the US are snuggling up to their carbon-emitting coal fires

Enterprising: Even with the rise of anti-immigrant rhetoric in France

​Curbing ‘big men’ may stem exodus

One of the reasons for Francophone Africa’s mass migration to France is leaders who refuse to go.

​There’s a crisis in our oceans, illegal fishing dwarfs ivory and rhino horn poaching

France, SA and Mozambique will give trawlers in the Mozambique Channel a harder time, but can they control the $23bn a year industry?

Buhari under siege on all fronts, only a year into his presidency

Economic woes and new calls for Biafran independence may signal the start of trouble in the country.

A makeshift figure of then-presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari stands in an intersection in Kaduna in March 2015. Buhari won the election.

Nigeria’s president is beset by a civil war threat, a terror group and an economic crisis

The West is riding on the hope that the Nigerian leader will defeat Boko Haram and end corruption.

Soldiers with the 1/18th Battalion provide security during an exercise with para rescue men at Grand Bara Range

After Ebola, US spreads its bets over Africa

The superpower may expand its bootprint across the continent but it was the Ebola outbreak that sparked this latest move in its ‘war on terror’.

Djibouti President Ismaïl Guelleh aims to stand for a fourth term. The strategic position of his country makes him immune to international criticism.

The double standards of African diplomacy

While the West and other observers are quick to condemn Robert Mugabe, they just as easily ignore the egregious abuses of power elsewhere.

Djibouti President Ismaïl Guelleh aims to stand for a fourth term. The strategic position of his country makes him immune to international criticism.

Allies silent on Djibouti human rights abuses

Western nations won’t intervene lest they upset a strategic partnership or usher in another despot.

Success in a rough neighbourhood

”If I sound like an Afro-pessimist, nothing could be more wrong. There are countries that serve as examples of what can be achieved in a new Zimbabwe,” writes Geoff Hill. ”Can…