Gérard Prunier

Former chief of the Centre français des études éthiopiennes in Addis-Abeba, member of the Centre d’études des mondes africains of Paris and author of several articles and books on Sudan.

In Sudan, General Hemetti Leads the Fray Gérard Prunier · February 2020 The man who organised the harsh crackdown in Khartoum last June, and who is now the No. 2 in the ruling junta, Gen. Mohamed Dagalo, known as ‟Hemetti”, began his bloodstained career in Darfur. Brutal and cunning, in reality it is he who wields the real power, in advance of a supposed democratic (…)
Gulf Countries and Turkey Pitch Against Each Other... in Africa Gérard Prunier · November 2018 One of the unknown victims of rivalries between Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Turkey (not to mention Iran) is the African continent where these countries compete with each other for dollars.
On 24 October 2018, when “Davos in the Desert” had been seriously compromised by (…)