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September 20
Africa: What Does Russia Trade With Africa?
After two symbolic African leaders' summits, Russia's trading is steadily increasing but significantly in exports of military weapons and equipment. According to Kremlin reports,… Read more »
September 11
Africa: The Global South in the New Cold War
Marginalised and dominated economically by the Global North, developing countries must urgently cooperate to better strive for their shared interests in achieving world peace and… Read more »
September 03
Africa: World Leaders Who Opted to Skip the United Nations
When the high-level segment of the UN General Assembly took place last September, there were several key world leaders missing in action (MIAs)--including, most importantly,… Read more »
August 28
Africa: Global Poverty Grows As Super-Rich Get Richer Faster
Oxfam expects the world's first trillionaire within a decade and poverty to end in 229 years! The wealth of the world's five richest men has more than doubled from 2020, as 4.8… Read more »
March 20
Africa: Industrial Policy, East or West, for Development or War?
Developing countries wanting to pursue industrial policy were severely reprimanded by advocates of the 'neoliberal' Washington Consensus. Now, it is being deployed as a weapon in… Read more »
March 06
Africa: Spare Us the Token Flowers - International Women's Day Is a Call to Action
Marking International Women's Day as a mere day of celebration is to strip it of its true meaning, a stab in the back of the generations of feminists who fought to make it a… Read more »
February 23
Africa: No God but Greed - Slavery and Indifference
At Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen there is a great painting made in 1797 by the Danish Golden Age painter Jens Juel. It depicts one of Denmark's richest merchants at the… Read more »
November 27, 2023
Africa: Migration - What the EU Can Learn From Africa
Popular migration discourses in Europe often question the ability of African states to govern migration effectively. Media images of African migrants squeezed into dingy boats in… Read more »
August 16, 2023
Africa: Reintegration Assistance for Migrants Going Home
Reintegration assistance for migrants returning to their countries of origin is becoming increasingly salient. Germany and the EU cooperate closely with countries of origin to… Read more »
August 11, 2023
West Africa: Russia Upstages Neo-Colonialist France in West Africa
Going back to the 16th century and continuing through the late 1960s, France was described as the world's second largest colonial power--just behind the British Empire. Read more »
August 07, 2023
West Africa: France, Russia, Ecowas in Battle for Soul of West Africa
On July 26 2023 a man named Colonel-Major Amadou Abdramane, flanked by soldiers with military fatigues, appeared on Niger's national television to announce the execution of a coup.… Read more »
July 18, 2023
Africa: Black Sea Grain Initiative 'Paused' but Africa Must Live Beyond Foreign Dependence
As Russia paused the renewal of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres reacted with regret saying the global south would be… Read more »
July 12, 2023
Zimbabwe: Private and Public Spheres - Sweden and Mugabe
The war in Ukraine continues unabated; young men are sacrificed on battlefields, towns laid waste by aerial attacks, the threat of nuclear disasters is looming. People within an… Read more »
June 19, 2023
Libya: A Shipwreck in Greece Reminds Us of the Mess in Libya
A new catastrophe in the Mediterranean, this time off the coast of Greece. The number of drowned still to be determined -- barely 100 survivors speak of more than 700 passengers on… Read more »
Africa: Migration - Europe's Complicity in Massive Human Rights Violations
Make no mistake: European States are complicit in the death of thousands and thousands of human beings on their shores, land borders and at home. The massive drowning of hundreds… Read more »
May 24, 2023
Africa: How Wagner Group, Mercenaries With a Wider Agenda, Impact Civil Society
The Wagner Group, a shadowy mercenary group that has been operating for many years in African countries such as Sudan, Mali, the Central African Republic, and other mainly… Read more »
May 18, 2023
Africa: Europe Sells 90% of Its Used Clothes, Textiles Waste to Africa and Asia
Once the money-making businesses have turned Asia and Africa into their low-cost factories, to produce and market at higher prices their clothes and footwear, obtaining more… Read more »
May 05, 2023
Africa: Charles Can Help Undo a Colonial Crime
Clive Baldwin is the London-based senior legal advisor at Human Rights Watch and lead author of the Human Rights Watch report on UK and US colonial crimes against the Chagossians Read more »
February 24, 2023
Africa: Spain - Home to The 'Greenhouses of Death' for African Migrants
Chances are that the fruits and vegetables sold in European supermarkets have been picked and packed by a migrant worker in southern Spain. By the tens of thousands, they work… Read more »
February 15, 2023
Africa: China and Russia Fail to Defund UN Human Rights Work
United Nations member states agreed to fully fund UN human rights mechanisms that China, Russia, and their allies had sought to defund in the 2023 budget. This should set a… Read more »
December 08, 2022
Africa: Europe and the Refugee Crisis - It's All About Tackling Racism & Discrimination
In 2019, when the President-elect of the European Union (EU) Ursula von der Leyen had presented a list for her soon-to-be European Commission, and on that list was a portfolio… Read more »
December 13, 2022
Africa: The Humanitarian Rescue Fleet Faces Hurricane Meloni
It was a hellish journey aboard a crammed boat amid three-meter waves. It had started on a Libyan beach, and at the gates of winter. On December 11, the last 500 migrants rescued… Read more »
December 12, 2022
Africa: European Court of Justice Ruling is Major Blow to Fight Against Illegal Fishing
The author is Executive Director, Financial Transparency Coalition Read more »
December 01, 2022
Egypt: Egypt Races to Supply Wind, Solar Energy to Europe Via Submarine Cables
As Europe braces for an unusual winter due to a global energy crisis, Greece is embarking on one of Europe's most ambitious energy projects by connecting its electricity grid to… Read more »
November 03, 2022
Africa: Solidarity and Negotiations to End the Ukraine War
On November 1, a statement of solidarity with Russians opposed to the Ukraine War was published. It was signed by more than 1,000 U.S. men and women who had opposed the U.S.… Read more »
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