The West African country is set to take a step toward resuming diplomatic ties at a White House meeting brokered by US ...

The country name "Israel" does not appear on online maps on the Chinese search engine Baidu or the Alibaba-backed maps app Amap, though surrounding countries' names are clearly shown.

JERUSALEM, Dec 1 (Reuters) - The Israeli army said on Friday that with the resumption of fighting it had published a map to advise Gazans of safe areas for their evacuation.

Israel’s observer status has caused a rift among AU members. The approval was granted unilaterally by the Chair of the AU Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, in July 2021.

So I think the conflict with Iran is not going to have a dramatic impact, given that Israel’s relationships with Africa are already weak and its exchanges with the continent are extremely limited.

But Israel’s ties to Africa go back further than that. In the late 1950s and 1960s, then foreign minister Golda Meir conducted an intense diplomatic campaign across the continent and by the end of the ...