06/09/2019
Germany started an ongoing Marshall Plan with Africa in 2017 as a means of maintaining a stable relationship with the continent and to increase the potential of secure investments and official development assistance, all towards seeing development thriving, the continent maintaining stable economic growth and offering an opportunity for good governance reforms.
Displacement and migration, agriculture and nutritional security and climate change are likely to remain key focus areas for Germany's engagement in Africa.
According to International Policy Digest's article on 'A New Economic Race for Africa,' challenges with Africa (such as over 50 nations being unwilling to cooperate to achieve a common goal despite being members of the UN and AU), foreign military and political intervention (such as Germany sending troops abroad for peacekeeping in UN peacekeeping bases in Congo and Mali), and the high estimated costs associated developing Africa (such as $93bn p.a. estimated for Africa's infrastructural problems and another $600bn p.a. to implement SDGs in Africa) complicate the plan, and only time will tell who will emerge first in the economic race for Africa.
Germany is going all in with Africa.
