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Statsminister Mette Frederiksen og Kenyas udenrigsminister, Musalia Mudavadi under regeringens kick-off konference med fokus på styrket engagement i Afrika i marts 2024.

Future Danish engagement with Africa

DIIS researchers investigate the potential for bolstered partnerships with African countries.

The Danish government is embarking on a renewed strategic engagement with Africa across foreign policy, security, and development. In a series of commentaries, DIIS researchers investigate the potential for bolstered partnerships amid deteriorating relations between Europe and Africa, geopolitical transformations, and concurrent crises of conflict and climate change.

Recommendations, results and background

DIIS Comment

8 April 2024

Challenges to Danish development engagements in a time of increasing autocratisation

DIIS Comment

9 April 2024

Bilateral partnerships

DIIS Comment

8 April 2024

Competition with China and other emerging actors

Abel Gwaindepi, DEVE workshop on ' Confronting debt, climate change and poverty: Global financial architecture reform and fiscal space of developing countries '

DIIS Comment

8 April 2024

Development and climate finance

African migration – key tendencies and political dilemmas

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DIIS Comment

2024

Towards a just green transition

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DIIS Comment

2024

Maritime security: How geopolitics hardens threat patterns at sea and challenges known solutions

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DIIS Comment

2024

If we are to build partnerships around energy Denmark must be willing to address African priorities

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DIIS Policy Brief

2024

Future Danish engagement with Africa: Insights and priorities for Denmark´s new Africa strategy from DIIS’ partners across the continent

The Danish Government will embark on a new strategic engagement with Africa in 2024. In this Policy Brief, five of DIIS’ research partners weigh in on the pitfalls and potentials of such a policy plan.

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DIIS Comment

2024

Challenges to Danish development engagements in a time of increasing autocratisation

The past decade has seen several countries move towards more autocratic governance, wiping out advances in global levels of democratization made over the last 35 years, and feeding a growing unease about the future of democracy. This poses complex challenges to Danish development engagements that aim to support local development, peace, and security without supporting illegitimate political regimes.

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DIIS Comment

2024

Bilateral partnerships

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DIIS Comment

2024

Competition with China and other emerging actors

How can Denmark expand its presence and gain more influence in Africa in ways that benefit both Denmark and Africa, in the context of strong competition from China and other emerging actors in the continent?