Middle East & Africa
Turkey and the time bomb in Syria
The Turkish attack on northern Syria has
provided conditions for ISIS militants held in camps in the region to escape
and revitalize themselves.
Turkey launched “Operation Peace...
The Turkish Gambit
The only
certainty in war is its intrinsic uncertainty, something Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan could soon chance upon. One only has to look back on
America's...
The Impact of Xenophobic Attack on Nigerians
Recently, on the 2nd of September 2019, Nigerians living in Johannesburg, Pretoria and surrounding areas, were attacked by South Africans. Many suffered the loss...
Could Turkish aggression boost peace in Syria?
On
October 7, 2019, the U.S. President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of
American troops from northeast Syria, where the contingent alongside Kurdish
militias controlled the vast...
Turkey and the Kurds: What goes around comes around
Turkey, like much of the Middle East, is discovering that what goes
around comes around.
Not only because President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to have
miscalculated the...
Russia-Africa Summit: Welcome to Sochi!
Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent warm
greetings to African leaders, business people and participants early
October, signaling that everything is set for the first Russia-Africa Summit...
Africa, no longer the Dark Continent
Ethiopian
PM, Abiy Ahmed was awarded the 2019
Nobel Peace Prize. He is the 12th winner from Africa. The Nobel
Committee stated, that Abiy had been awarded...
Turkey in the Kurdish Rojava
Since the
beginning of clashes in Syria, Turkey has aimed at annexing the left bank of the Euphrates up to
Mossul, a strip of land about...
Has Assad succeeded in overcoming the Syrian crisis?
A series of revolutions swept through the
Arab region. The first torch was from Tunisia when protester Mohamed Bouazizi
burned himself in opposition to the regime...
Who is Ethiopian Premier Abiy Ahmed, winner of 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for Eritrea Accord?
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been crowned the winner of the
2019 Nobel Peace Prize for "his efforts to achieve peace and international
cooperation" with...