Since I neglected Africa in one of my year in review posts due to my relative ignorance of this entire continent, here is a summary of a post about Africa in 2022. This person, Andrew Korybko, describes himself as “a Moscow-based American political analyst specializing in the global systemic transition to multipolarity”. His voice is definitely not impartial, and yet interesting. Some brief fact checking confirms that he is not making things up, although he puts his own (Russian intelligence?) spin on them. Here is his list of top 5 developments in Africa in 2022:

1. Africa was affected by food and energy price spikes, but this did not trigger widespread civil unrest.
2. African countries were generally neutral in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
3. The government of Mali expelled French military forces and accepted Russian support (to glowing praise, in this author’s stated opinion, who believes there is a “Franco-Russo proxy war” going on. I take no position on this having next to no knowledge other than a vague sense that the current government of Mali came to power in a military coup and has been accused of atrocities.)
4. A peace deal (according to this author; a “cessation of hostilities” according to Wikipedia) was reached in the Ethiopia/Tigray conflict.
5. A new war is brewing in D.R. Congo and once again pulling in regional parties.