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Climate change, food security and sustaining peace
‘We have succeeded at keeping famine at bay, we have not kept suffering at bay’, said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres while briefing members of...
Africa Active: A new publication to bridge the business information gap between Africa and Russia
Africa Active, a new quarterly publication about African issues, has hit the market in the Russian Federation. Nataliya Zaiser, the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of...
Russian investors should seize the opportunity to invest in Ghana
For nearly six decades, Ghana and Russia have had an excellent diplomatic relations and still looking to build a stronger economic cooperation. In this...
Linking Resource Scarcity with Conflict
Resource scarcity can be explained through three principals. First is basic human security requires adequate resources in the specific location. The human population is...
The unfolding humanitarian crisis around Lake Chad: UN report falls short of naming environmental dimensions
It is encouraging to see that the United Nations Security Council is beginning to acknowledge the transboundary dimensions of fragility and conflict, as demonstrated...
Is Bell Pottinger the Turning Point for South Africa’s Anticorruption Fighters?
At the crumbling Bell Pottinger, shock must still be setting in. Less than two years ago after the British PR firm agreed to a...
Read the new Journal of Rising Powers
Welcome to the second issue of the inaugural year of the Journal of Rising Powers. In our first issue, we focused a great diversity...
Why does China need a “support” base in Djibouti?
For four decades since 1949, Chinese government vowed not to send a single soldier abroad during the peacetime. This statement sounds credible because the...
Africa and the World Bank: Why it’s Not Too Late
African countries are in a developmental conundrum; they have seen economic reversals in the wake (and arguably because) of the World Bank and yet...
Macron’s global strategy in Africa and in the European Union
Both Chirac and Sarkozy had five minutes to leave power, while François Hollande could even have five months to do so. In fact, at...