Alassane Ouattara poised to win elections despite threats from the opposition
Cote d’Ivoire continues to play an important role in the politics and economy of West Africa. The re...
Read MoreHow has Turkiye fended since the 15 July 2016 attempted coup?
Turkiye has been very busy this July, not only has it welcomed thousands of tourists mainly from the...
Read MoreTime for Qatar to review its hosting of US Al Udeid military air base
The assassination of one of the highest-ranking Generals and the Commanders of Al Quds Force – part ...
Read MoreTime to talk about weaponising visas against Africans
The anti-migration regulations in Europe and the US against Africans continue to affect the sociopol...
Read MoreDonald Trump is decoupling from Benjamin Netanyahu
President Cyril Ramaphosa is in the US after an invitation by President Donald Trump. The invitation...
Read MoreBlame the conflict in Jammu and Kashmir to haphazard partitioning of India in 1947
India and Pakistan have been at daggers drawn since 1947 when Indian Sub continent was partitioned. ...
Read MoreThe growing popularity of “good coup d’états” in Africa
Coup d’états have dominated African politics since the end of colonialism for a number of reasons. C...
Read MoreRebuilding hope amidst landmines
Anti-personnel landmines have maimed millions of people around the world. At least 1 983 people wer...
Read MoreTesla to open operations in Saudi Arabia amid boycott and protests
There is increased pressure on oil-producing countries to do more to limit the effect of climate cha...
Read MoreDiplomats are booted as DRC conflict goes on
Rwanda has expelled all Belgian diplomats and gave them 48 hours to leave the country. Belgium has ...
Read MoreAzerbaijan’s engagement in multilateralism, education and humanitarian diplomacy in Africa
The announcement by Donald Trump that he was terminating the services of the US Agency for Internati...
Read MoreTurkiye must continue its rapprochement with Africa after the elections
The geographical importance and the role of Turkiye in global politics, especially after Russia's in...
Read MoreThe conflict in Sudan proves why Africa must reject all forms of military parallelism
The convenience of pairing Special Rapid Forces (RSF), a paramilitary force in Sudan, alongside the ...
Read MoreIt's time for the Arab states to renounce the Abraham Accords with Israel
The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan must surely renounce the Abraham Accords with ...
Palestine artist 'corrects' Charlie Hebdo cartoon on Turkiye's quake crisis
Palestinian artist, Abrar Sabbah, who received appreciation for her drawing against the provocative ...
Read MoreIn the DRC, an ugly history of war risks repeating itself
It was 1998, and President Laurent-Désiré Kabila was getting desperate. He had been in power for on...
Read MoreQatar chose to avoid domestic upheaval over Western World Cup demands
One of the political challenges in Qatar is that most of the population is left behind when the roya...
Read MoreEthiopia’s warring parties meet for peace talks in South Africa
The South African government is hosting peace talks to end the Tigray conflict, with delegates from ...
Read MoreThe 2023 Turkish elections
Turkish parliamentary and presidential elections will be held in eight short months; and in oppositi...
Read MoreSaudi Arabia plans to join BRICS. Why SA must be concerned
South Africa's relationship with Saudi Arabia continues to grow. Saudi Arabia has made substantial i...
Read MoreHistoric floods still haunt Mozambique.
Twenty-two years on, scars of Mozambique's worst floods still haunt Gilda Muhate, a 60-year-old wido...
Read MoreThe emerging “Third Way” within the governing ANC in South Africa
There is much said about the future of the governing party in South Africa, the African National Con...
Read MoreTurkiye holds panel on Security Council reform in Cape Town
Turkiye's Communications Directorate on Tuesday organised a panel on reform in the UN Security Counc...
Read MoreThe cascading effect of the three red lines policy
China’s economy is heavily dependent on the growth of the housing market. It is the third largest co...
Read MoreAnother take on Sri Lanka and China’s “debt trap diplomacy”
The panicked resignation and departure of Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his brother, p...
Read MoreAdverse labor laws by Chinese multinationals give rise to Anti-Chinese sentiments in Namibia
The Africa Youth Survey 2022 found that while pessimism about the future has declined, African youth...
Read MoreDRC and Zambia move ahead with electric battery collaboration
In what many regard as a large milestone for southern Africa, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of ...
Read MoreChina’s relations with Africa suffer damage after a racist video
“Shocking, outrageous, disgusting, abhorrent” are some of the descriptions used to refer to a video ...
Read MoreSouth Africa Must Leave BRICS Or Face Isolation
When South Africa became a democracy in 1994, its own long struggle against apartheid led it to alig...
Read MoreSaudi Arabia is losing the War in Yemen after seven years of mayhem and destruction
According to the United Nations (UN), the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen and the Houthis have extended...
Read MoreScramble for Covid-19 Vaccines – Zooming into The Chinese Vaccines & The Travel Ban in Africa
Africans have become victims of Covid-19 vaccine scramble as rich nations continue to hoard vaccines...
Read MoreZimbabweans Turn to Memes and Jokes as Covid Mental Health Burden Bites
Zimbabweans are no strangers to using humour as a coping mechanism. For instance, during funerals, a...
Read MoreThe election of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and the future relationship of Philippines with China and the US
Following the People Power Revolution in 1986 in Philippines, the Marcos family remained in exile un...
Read MoreCan Zambia take the lead in the Electric Vehicle Revolution?
Rising fuel prices have brought the conversation on the need for greener initiatives in the transpor...
Read MoreBeijing Pulling All Stops To Have Hong Kong Under its Total Control
The relationship between mainland China and Hong Kong is incredibly complex. The two are intricately...
Read MoreThe War in Ukraine Presents Both Opportunities & Disadvantages for China
Just before Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian coun...
Read MoreAvowed Anti-Feminist Ascends to South Korea’s Presidency
South Korea will soon have a new president. In what is regarded as the closest presidential win in t...
Read MoreKeep the Palestinian Struggle out of Putin’s war in Ukraine, Thembisa Ebrahim Fakude, Unpacks
Keep the Palestinian struggle out of Putin’s war in Ukraine, Thembisa Ebrahim Fakude, unpacks
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China In Zimbabwe: Trampling on workers’ rights or part of a bigger problem?
At the turn of the millennium, China and Zimbabwe revived relations after the African nation had cut...
Read MoreKeep Palestinian struggle out of Putin’s war in Ukraine
With the focus on Ukraine, it is easy to forget that Russian President Vladimir Putin supports his S...
Read MoreRussian Invasion Of Ukraine Will Embolden China’s Expansionist Ambitions.
A hunger for insatiable conquests, a ghost from the Second World War, has reawakened. That ghost is ...
Read MoreSolutions Sought For Insurgency In Mozambique’s “Forgotten Cape”
The end, in 1992, of a post-independence civil war in Mozambique left citizens feeling optimistic ab...
Read MoreCould Hosting The Next Climate Change Conference In The MENA Region Be A Solution For The Climate Apocalypse?
For many countries in the Middle East, October and November’s United Nations Climate Change Conferen...
Read MoreWhy Does Algeria Insists On Hosting An Arab Summit That Can Bring No Good?
The late Muammar Gaddafi erred in many policies and positions, but he was very correct in his lack o...
Read MoreCan Qatar Save Europe From A Cold Winter In The Event Of A Russia-Ukraine War?
Any war scenario between Ukraine and Russia would undoubtedly imperil European energy security. Exis...
Read MoreOmicron Travel Ban Leads To Renewed African Solidarity And Political Attitude Towards The West
Global Covid-19 politics appear to have awakened Africa’s liberation spirit: the continent’s leader...
UK based Uighur Tribunal indicts China of Genocide
The UK based Uighurs Tribunal ruled on 7th December 2021 that China “committed genocide” against th...
Will Egypt's gas to Lebanon end the East Mediterranean maritime border dispute with Israel?
Egypt has reached an agreement with Lebanon to export natural gas to the country in the first quarte...
Read MoreLeaked list sheds light on LGBTQ + community’s crisis in China
Abstract
Read MoreIn late August 2021, a document appeared on social media that queried the state of mind and ...
Competing media narratives whilst the conflict continues in Ethiopia
Earlier this week media reports emerged that Tigrayan People Liberation Front (TPLF) was withdrawing...
Read MoreTunisia's State of Flux and Counter-Revolution
Tunisia's President, Kais Saied, vehemently denies what he did in Tunisia is, literally, a constitut...
Read MoreIs Taiwan on the brink of being Colonized for the Seventh Time?
Taiwan, formally known as the Republic of China, is an island located to the southeast of mainland C...
Read MoreCOP26 must deliver a transformative agenda for financing climate action across developing countries
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our time. The cumulative effect of anthropogenic ...
Part 2 - Calls for Democratic Reforms in Eswatini puts King Mswati III Under Pressure
Part 2
Read MoreCalls for Democratic Reforms in Eswatini puts King Mswati III Under Pressure
As the ...
Part 1 - Eswatini: A History of Struggle
Part 1
Read MoreEswatini: A History of Struggle
Background
Political movements calling for change have long exis...
The Future outlook of Afghanistan under the Taliban
Introduction
Read MoreThe United States’ (US) decision to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan will have far-r...
Africa's struggles with decolonisation are being replayed in Afghanistan
Within minutes after it was taken, the photo of US Major General Chris Donahue boarding a C-17 plane...
Read MoreTowards understanding growing ultra-nationalism and anti-immigration sentiments
There are many countries that continue to deny their people's basic rights. Moreover because electi...
Read MoreThe plight of the future existence of the Uighurs in China
Introduction
Read MoreXinjiang, officially known as the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), lies in the ...
Ties between Turkey and Ethiopia have been strengthened by their latest agreements
The visit to Ankara of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on 18 August was significant. The signing...
Read MoreWhat does the three-child policy mean for women’s empowerment in China?
A severe national gender imbalance, an ageing population and a shrinking workforce: this is the mod...
Read MoreQatar's deep pocket foreign policy could produce a miracle in Afghanistan
Qatar has continued to set political and other trends in the Middle East. The small oil and gas ric...
Nkandla stand-off – Implications for South African democracy
The current stand-off between former South African president Jacob Zuma and the authorities has wide...
Read MoreNetanyahu's exit brings some slight optimism
Changes in the makeup of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, hardly cause for Palestinian optimism...
Zooming into Facebook and Twitter suspension of Donald Trump — Why must we be worried?
When Donald Trump assumed office, he used his own Facebook and Twitter accounts instead of that of t...
Read MoreA more complex reality in Cabo Delgado
When the uprising started in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique’s northernmost province, in 2017, the insurge...
Speculations grow amidst the launch of Al Jazeera's new Rightly digital platform
News emerged last night that Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN)was due to launch a new onli...
Ramaphosa attempts to allay fears and skepticisms amidst doubts on COVID-19 vaccinations
COVID-19 wll have a long lasting effect in the world’s economy. According to World Bank forecasts, ...
Appointment of Xiaomei Havard to South African parliament raises an important national question
Many South Africans of my generation were born and forced into politics by apartheid. There were a n...
Read MoreSudan needs to tread carefully in its political transition
Sudan has always featured on the news for a variety of reasons. Over the years, it has been the o...
Turkey is the only hope for the victims of the genocidal onslaught in Idlib
It is worth remembering that the initial protests in Syria were calling for social change, not regim...
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