Sep 20, 2022 06:19 am UTC| Politics
President Joe Biden has not for the first time suggested that the U.S. would intervene militarily should China attempt an invasion of Taiwan. What did Biden say and why was it significant? In an exchange on 60...
Are the West's sanctions against Russia actually working?
Sep 20, 2022 06:15 am UTC| Insights & Views
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24 2022, the United States, the European Union and other countries swiftly imposed a mix of wide-ranging diplomatic and economic sanctions. Russia was excluded from...
Crimea: Ukraine uses new tactics to attempt to take back strategic territory from Russia
Aug 21, 2022 17:21 pm UTC| Politics
Russian president Vladimir Putin has reportedly replaced the commander of his Black Sea fleet just three days after an attack on the Russian Saki airbase in Crimea, as Ukraines military strategy shifts towards regaining...
Aug 08, 2022 05:46 am UTC| Insights & Views
Every five years, the nearly 200 member states of the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons meet to review their progress or lack thereof. After being postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the monthlong...
The US is revisiting its trade relations with African countries: key issues on the table
Aug 08, 2022 05:43 am UTC| Economy
Last year, the USs Biden administration announced plans to increase two-way trade and investment between the US and Africa. The starting point was a revamp of the Trump-era Prosper Africa initiative. As American secretary...
Ukraine Recap: grain and gas were problems the west should have seen coming
Aug 06, 2022 10:18 am UTC| Politics
There was a perceptible sense of relief on Monday when the Razoni, a Sierra Leone-flagged vessel, left the port of Odesa with 26,000 tons of grain bound for Tripoli in Lebanon. This was the first ship out of the port city...
Why Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan puts the White House in delicate straits of diplomacy with China
Aug 03, 2022 03:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan on Aug. 2, 2022 a highly controversial trip that has been strongly opposed by China. Such is the sensitivity over the islands status that even before Pelosis plane...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
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