In February 2008, beneath the harsh afternoon sun of Accra, US President George W. Bush stood before a small gathering of journalists and dismissedswirling […]
When we speak of poverty in political or academic discourse, we often tend to treat it as a neutral phenomenon, as though it […]
Let’s start with the basics. We are told this is “one of the deadliest and longest-running wars on the planet.” Millions dead, villages erased, women raped […]
US President Donald Trump has authorised the USS Gerald R. Ford to enter the Caribbean. It now floats north of Puerto Rico, joining the USS Iwo Jimaand other US […]
As a professor who has spent more than forty years studying questions of war and peace, international law and relations —and above all, the […]
“A dictator is a dictator — male or female. Power wears no gender.” The Mirage of Progress They said it was a new dawn.A […]
Campbell congratulates the Senegalese people on the eviction of the French military presence from their soil in a discussion of France’s nefarious neo-colonial practices […]
Somaliland officials, led by former President Muse Bihi, pose with US military and diplomatic officials after meeting at the Egal International Airport in Hargeisa. […]
In recent months, the viability of France’s nuclear arsenal has been making headlines with talk of a French “nuclear umbrella”that might shield its allies on […]
Rwanda has just launched another major communication campaign by announcing that it is in talks with the Trump administration about a potential agreement to […]
NATO was never a good idea gone wrong. It was founded to crush communist, socialist, and anti-colonial movements in Europe and around the world. […]
[Prefatory Note: The post below is based on my responses to Murat Sofuoglu, a journalist working for TRT World in Turkey devoted to the […]
Neighbouring states now fear regional expansion by Peter Küpfer cc. Singaporean scholar and diplomat Kishore Mahbubani has once again pointed out that Africa’s problems […]
During his address to Congress on March 4, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump faced brief heckling from Democratic Representative AI Green and scattered jeers from his […]
In November, Álvaro Noboa, the father of Ecuador’s president Daniel Noboa, had a heart attack. He was hastily taken to a clinic in Guayaquil, his hometown, and then after he was stabilized, flown to a hospital in New York. Álvaro Noboa unsuccessfully ran for president five times (1998, 2002, 2006, 2009, and 2013), but it was his son who prevailed in 2023 at the age of 35.
Nearly half the world’s children “live in countries where risks to their health and safety due to the effects of climate change are extremely high,” according […]
Thirty years of economic warfare over raw materials in eastern Congo by Peter Küpfer On 9 November 2024, the Paris Court of Appeal punished a deserving research- er and author with Cameroonian roots, ignoring […]
The fall of Damascus and rise of HTS signal a dangerous shift in Syria, deepening regional instability, and isolation for Palestine. From Israel to […]
After news broke that Han Kang—the South Korean author—had won the Nobel Prize for Literature, her father—the novelist Han Seung-won—asked her where she wanted to hold a […]
The Global South is coming, with or–hopefully without–a vengeance. Look at the basic facts in the power distribution. The abrahamic Occident expanded three times: […]
The actual cause of the climate crisis is the anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere since the start of the industrial revolution. But the proximate cause—the […]
BEIJING — September 02, 2024 8:59 AM China rolled out the red carpet on Monday for leaders from across Africa, seeking to deepen ties […]
According to the 2021 Global Climate Risk Index, Malawi is among the five nations worldwide most affected by extreme weather events. The country experiences […]
On July 6 and 7, the leaders of the three main countries in Africa’s Sahel region—just south of the Sahara Desert—met in Niamey, Niger, […]
