The best class of human societies is those of the ladies and gentlemen – in the precise sense of those words. These are the guardians of all civilized societies. They mend the cracks and holes caused to the fabrics of ...
Dictatorship competitions : Re-elected last weekend at the head of their respective countries, the President of Kazakhstan and his colleague of Sudan Omar al-Bashir are part of the exclusive club of elected heads of state with over 90% of votes. Sunday, ...
Iran and Israel have taken their fight to the diplomatic arena in Africa. The Jewish State and the Shiite Theocracy are competing to win the favors of local rulers and their favors at the UN. Both country are diplomatically isolated ...
In Casamance, in the south-west of Senegal, a Sino-Australian multinational is looking for zircon, a mineral whose exploitaiton is very lucrative. But the project has many gray areas, reveals a survey by the news website Ouestaf News. Niafrang could have stayed a ...
‘Neocolonialism’ has become a widely used word by African heads of states in recent time, and in as much as we Africans resist colonialism in every form, but we must admit that more often than not, the cry of our ...
Low oil prices and a weak global economy have thrown a wrench in many countries’ plans to develop and exploit their untouched energy resources. But for Mozambique, those plans may be back on the table. On March 1, an energy ...
Summary Another oil pipeline in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region has been disrupted. Royal Dutch Shell’s Forcados Pipeline in Burutu, Delta state, was ruptured Feb. 14, which caused the entire pipeline to shut down. That it occurred in the oil-rich region, ...
December 4th marked an important occasion in Chinese-African relations, signalling, as it did, the 15th anniversary of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). This is a relationship that has been largely overlooked, and yet it is one of the world’s most ...
The world watched transfixed as West Africa battled the Ebola virus during the epidemic that peaked in 2014. Borders and airports closed, but a few cases managed to escape the continent, creating international panic. Even though the threat of a ...
Abdelmalek Alaoui is a contributor for Forbes and writes about North Africa, the US and International Relations. Three years have elapsed since a Tunisian fruit vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, triggered the biggest social and political upheaval of modern times in the ...