Middle East & Africa
Eastern Mediterranean: A microcosm of regional and global battles
The Eastern Mediterranean has become a flash-point for the meshing of
geopolitics, the struggle for regional hegemony, battles for control of
resources, religious soft power rivalry,...
Saudization: Progress For Women In The Kingdom
Saudi women
are becoming a growing force in the workplace. The Saudi government has made a
concerted effort towards “Saudization” – a nation-wide program to replace...
Understanding Turkey’s tryst for Kashmir, but not for Kurdistan
The
political tensions between Turkey and India have soared quickly in last 8
months. Turkey is slamming India at every International Forums, including the
UNGA for violating...
President of The AfDB Receives 8th African Leadership Magazine African of The Year Award
Over 200 leading African political, business,
and diplomatic leaders gathered in Johannesburg for the 8th African Leadership
Magazine Persons of the Year Award dinner. They witnessed...
UN urge warring Libyan factions to negotiate
The UN’s Libya mission and world powers on Tuesday urged the country’s
warring parties to engage in peace efforts, as doubts hung over talks set...
Russia-Africa Relations: Highlights of Valentina Matviyenko’s Trip to Namibia and Zambia
On February 18 - 20, Chairperson of the Federation
Council (the Upper House or the Senate), Valentina Matviyenko, headed a Russian
delegation on a three-day working...
Africa has both the energy and the determination to make sustainable development happen
The United
Nations and the African Union (AU) should do more to ensure all Africans see
their futures in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)and the goals...
Zimbabwe’s Unprecedented Misfortune: The Perils of Climate Change
Remarkably, the El Nino effect is ghosting
human lives back again; Zimbabwe’s food insecurity is reaching dangerous levels
whilst ground policies are taking strange turns. Time...
Situation in central Mali ‘deteriorating’ as violence, impunity rise
The growing violence has contributed to a deteriorating security
situation in central Mali, with impunity being one of the aggravating factors, an independent UN
human rights...
Escalating Burkina Faso violence brings wider Sahel displacement emergency into focus
Deadly attacks on villages in Burkina Faso have forced 150,000 people to
flee in just the last three weeks, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said...