Eastern Congo bleeds through a system of plunder, silence, and abandonment. Pierre Jacquemot reveals not a temporary conflict but a machinery of despair. Can local strength and regional unity forge a path to lasting peace? Jamal Machrouh and Florent Parmentier call for an Eastern Atlantic Community, a pragmatic alignment between Europe and Africa shaped by infrastructure, energy, and shared interest. Can the Atlantic serve as a corridor of cooperation rather than a line of division? Trump’s return cracks the old global architecture. Ferid Belhaj maps a world ruled by force and transactional power. Will the New South rise from fragmentation and claim its place? Meriem Oudmane reads Morocco’s health system as a mirror of the nation: resilient in moments, unequal in depth. Can a system heal the very sicknesses it was slow to name? From Dakar, a voice insists that ideas matter, that citizens must reclaim space, speak truth, and demand accountability. Can thought remain free where power narrows the air? These are not theories. They are questions carved into the future.
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(FR) Toward a Just and Lasting Peace in Eastern Congo: Systemic Approaches to a Protracted Crisis
Pierre Jacquemot
Despite over three decades of international interventions, peace remains elusive in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where over 7.8 million people are currently displaced. In this comprehensive policy paper, Pierre Jacquemot unpacks the interwoven dynamics of mineral predation, geopolitical rivalries, and systemic governance failures that sustain the conflict. He argues that only a systemic approach—rooted in local agency, regional cooperation, and economic transformation—can break the cycle of violence. Can the Congolese state reclaim its role as the sole arbiter of legitimate force and usher in a just and lasting peace?... Read more
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(FR) A Fractured World: Trump’s America and the Fault Lines of the International Order
Ferid Belhaj
With the return of Donald Trump to the White House in 2025, the global order shaped in 1945 reaches a decisive rupture point. In Un monde en fracture, Ferid Belhaj offers a compelling geopolitical analysis of a world increasingly governed by conditional loyalty, coercive economic tools, and the dismantling of multilateral norms. Through the lens of Trump 2.0’s strategic realism and the Doctrine Bessent, the paper maps a systemic shift from universalist rhetoric to power-centered governance. Can the “New South,” fragmented yet economically pivotal, transform its demographic and economic weight into normative and institutional influence in this fractured global architecture?... Read more
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Towards an Eastern Atlantic Community
Jamal Machrouh, Florent Parmentier
As global power dynamics increasingly consolidate around strategic regional blocs, the Eastern Atlantic space remains structurally under-integrated despite its immense economic, environmental, and geopolitical potential. In this doctrine piece, Jamal Machrouh and Florent Parmentier advocate for the creation of an Eastern Atlantic Community (EAC), a bold framework of intercontinental cooperation between Europe and Africa anchored in maritime connectivity, energy transition, and mutual resilience. By proposing a minimalist yet functional “union of projects” model, the authors reimagine the Atlantic not merely as a dividing ocean but as a unifying infrastructure. Could this strategic “large vertical” be the missing link in a fragmented global order seeking stability, autonomy, and shared prosperity?... Read more
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(AR) Tuesday Talk : Morocco's Health System: Achievements, Challenges and Prospects for Reform
In the last episode of Tuesday Talks, Professor Meriem Oudmane offered a data-driven analysis of Morocco’s evolving healthcare landscape, highlighting demographic shifts, rising chronic disease burdens, and significant disparities between urban and rural health access. Despite progress in maternal and child health, expanded vaccination coverage, and Morocco’s rapid mobilization during the COVID-19 crisis, the health system continues to face structural challenges — underfunding, infrastructural deficits, and uneven service distribution. Structural reforms launched in 2002, culminating in the ambitious 2021 universal coverage program, mark decisive steps toward equity and sovereignty in healthcare. Yet, can Morocco’s health system sustain and adapt these reforms to meet the growing demand and complexity of public health in the decades ahead?... Watch
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Think Tanks in Africa
In this episode of the PCNS podcast, Dr. Gilles Yabi, founder of the West African Citizen Think Tank (WATHI), shares insights into the mission and challenges of knowledge-based civic engagement in West Africa. Framing WATHI as a collective platform for inclusive reflection rather than a conventional advisory body, Yabi advocates for democratizing access to public policy discourse and strengthening societal ownership of reform agendas. Drawing on his experience at the International Crisis Group, he emphasizes the need for context-sensitive, citizen-centered approaches to governance and conflict prevention. In a region marked by democratic backsliding and shrinking civic space, can independent think tanks sustain their role as trusted conveners of dialogue and drivers of accountable policymaking?...Listen
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