AGP Executive Report
Last update: 11 minutes agoFrance’s retreat reshapes the Sahel: A week of reporting points to a major shift in West Africa’s power map, with France’s military pullback accelerating across multiple countries while Russia moves into the vacuum—though the “win” story looks messier on the ground. US deportation deals ripple across the region: Sierra Leone has agreed to accept hundreds of West African migrants deported by the US under “third-country” arrangements, with the first flight due May 20—raising fresh legal and rights concerns that have also touched Equatorial Guinea. Equatorial Guinea under UN scrutiny: UN experts are urging Malabo to stop deporting US-linked migrants to places where they face torture or violence, after reports of “prison-like” conditions. Oil and gas pressure stays high: A new report argues decades of hydrocarbon extraction across Africa—including Equatorial Guinea—have not delivered broad-based poverty reduction, while Meren Energy flags West Africa’s deepwater as a geopolitical beneficiary. Regional business diplomacy: Nigeria’s Tinubu is pitching investors across Africa, including at the Africa CEO Forum in Kigali.
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