Select Committee on International Relations and Defence
The UK and Sub-Saharan Africa: prosperity, peace and development co-operation
1st Report of Session 2019-21 - published 10 July 2020 - HL Paper 88
Contents
Box 1: Data and projections relating to COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa
Chapter 2: The UK’s Africa strategy
The priority afforded to Africa by UK governments
Table 1: UK Ministers for Africa since 1989
Sub-Saharan African perceptions of the UK
Box 2: African interaction with the UK’s visa regime
Box 3: The UK’s ‘strategic approach’ to Africa
Figure 1: UK diplomatic posts in Sub-Saharan Africa
Communication of the ‘strategic approach’
Other countries and organisations
Chapter 3: Africa’s regional organisations
Figure 2: The regions of the African Union
AU resourcing and capabilities
The AU and international organisations
The AU’s engagement with external stakeholders
Box 5: Regional economic communities
Figure 3: The membership of regional economic communities
Figure 4: African members of the Commonwealth
Chapter 4: Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic development
Box 6: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Business environment and investment
Box 7: The costs of corruption
Box 8: Human rights in the extractive industries
Box 9: The African Continental Free Trade Area
Box 10: UNECA modelling on the economic benefits of the AfCFTA
Addressing the impact of COVID-19 on Sub-Saharan African economies
Box 11: International efforts to support the poorest countries from the effects of COVID-19
Chapter 5: The UK’s economic relationship with Sub-Saharan Africa
Official development assistance
Box 12: Official development assistance
Table 3: Top ten recipients of UK bilateral ODA 2020–21
UK trade with and investment in Sub-Saharan Africa
Box 15: UK trade and investment relations with Sub-Saharan Africa
Box 16: African companies and bonds on the London Stock Exchange
Government support for trade and investment
Box 17: The UK Trade Commissioner for Africa
Box 18: The UK–Africa Investment Summit
Box 19: The EU’s trade arrangements with Sub-Saharan African countries
Actions for the Government to increase trade with and investment in Sub-Saharan Africa
The diaspora, and remittances from the UK to Sub-Saharan Africa
Box 20: Remittances to Africa from the UK
Government support for remittances and diaspora financing
Engagement with the Sub-Saharan African diaspora in the UK
Box 21: The African diaspora in the United Kingdom
Chapter 6: Peace and security in Sub-Saharan Africa
Figure 5: Conflicts featuring non-state actors
COVID-19 and peace and security
Box 22: International action in Mali
Box 25: The Anglophone crisis in Cameroon
The African Union and the United Nations
Figure 6: AU, REC and UN peacekeeping operations
The UK and Sub-Saharan African security
Box 26: The Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
Development assistance and security
Chapter 7: Human rights, democracy and governance in Sub-Saharan Africa
Justice and the International Criminal Court
Box 27: The International Criminal Court and Africa
The role of the UK and non-African partners
Summary of conclusions and recommendations
Appendix 1: List of Members and declarations of interest
Evidence is published online at https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/360/international-relations-and-defence-committee/ and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020 7129 3074).
Q in footnotes refers to a question in oral evidence.