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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 on an industrial scale,…
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 navy assets to threaten…
As a professor who has spent more than forty years studying questions of war and peace, international law and relations —and above all, the human consequences of armed…
“A dictator is a dictator — male or female. Power wears no gender.” The Mirage of Progress They said it was a new dawn.A woman at the helm.…
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 in Africa Introduction One…
Somaliland officials, led by former President Muse Bihi, pose with US military and diplomatic officials after meeting at the Egal International Airport in Hargeisa. Somaliland aspires to be…
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 the European continent. In…
Rwanda has just launched another major communication campaign by announcing that it is in talks with the Trump administration about a potential agreement to accept migrants deported from…
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. Medea Benjamin and David…
[Prefatory Note: The post below is based on my responses to Murat Sofuoglu, a journalist working for TRT World in Turkey devoted to the Reappointment of Francesca Albanese,…
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 are also Europe’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 colleagues. But the overwhelming…
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…
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 to UNICEF. By 2050,…
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 important facts. For years,…
The fall of Damascus and rise of HTS signal a dangerous shift in Syria, deepening regional instability, and isolation for Palestine. From Israel to Africa’s Sahel region, what…
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 press conference to talk…
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: islam 622-1492 from Iberia…
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 underlying activity that sparked…
BEIJING — September 02, 2024 8:59 AM China rolled out the red carpet on Monday for leaders from across Africa, seeking to deepen ties with the resource-rich continent…
According to the 2021 Global Climate Risk Index, Malawi is among the five nations worldwide most affected by extreme weather events. The country experiences distinct wet and dry…
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, to deepen their Alliance…
The current humanitarian crisis caused by M23 could have been prevented if the United Nations had acted in 2019 when we first raised the alarm. We learned from…
In April 2024, extreme heat hit South and Southeast Asia, affecting nations like India, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Myanmar. These heat waves severely impacted some of…