Global Geo-political Series: US imposes new sanctions on eight Russian companies
Mar 27, 2017 06:11 am UTC| Commentary
Over the weekend the US State department announced that it is imposing new sanctions on 30 companies around the world of which 8 companies are of Russian origin and 11 are from China. The State department cited an existing...
FBI's Russia probe threatens a reckoning for team Trump
Mar 24, 2017 07:34 am UTC| Insights & Views
So now we know: the FBI has for months been investigating not only Russian interference in the US presidential election, but also Russian contacts with members of the Trump campaign team. Its scope includes the possibility...
Terror in London: Western cities will always be vulnerable to these attacks
Mar 23, 2017 06:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Just when the Western world had absorbed the shock of a truck bombing in Berlin in December that claimed 12 lives, it is reminded again of the dangers of lone-wolf attacks inspired by Islamic State (IS) that are almost...
Global Geo-political Series: Bitter battle breaks out across EU
Mar 22, 2017 11:41 am UTC| Commentary
The comments made by the head of the Eurozones finance ministers, Jeroen Dijsselbloem have triggered a bitter battle across theEuropean continent. Speaking in an interview with the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine...
Africa offers a point of cooperation for Xi and Trump
Mar 22, 2017 07:07 am UTC| Insights & Views
Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump will meet for the first time at Trumps opulent Mar-a-Lago golf resort in Florida in early April. Theres no indication yet that they will discuss Africa. But both...
Responding to Trump's 'discoarse'? An African humanist philosophy may be the way
Mar 21, 2017 10:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
US President Donald Trump is easily the most controversial person on Twitter. He thrives on the medium and has been exploiting it effectively. The tone of many of Trumps tweets plus Twitters nature as a medium where...
French election: Macron takes lead in latest poll
Mar 21, 2017 08:10 am UTC| Commentary
French Presidential front-runner, the independent candidate Emmanuel Macron has taken a lead over the Front National leader Marine Le Pen for the first time in the round one of the French election, according to a poll...
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