With the conflict in Gaza, relations between Israel and African countries, particularly Algeria and South Africa, have reached a critical point. Everything depends on whether the conflict spreads to other areas of the Middle East. In recent decades, relations between Israel and African countries have…
Israel is one of the world leaders in the production and export of digital surveillance technologies. To develop them, it can count on the…
It is the fourth largest economy on the continent but it is too closely tied to the fluctuations of the gas and oil markets.…
The middle class grows, but inequality increases. Galloping corruption, total party control over the people, an ambiguous relationship with China. Bamboo diplomacy. Vietnam's first impression…
With December, the decade (2015-2024) dedicated by the United Nations to Afro-descendants ends. Little has been done. Injustice and poverty still have an Afro face. Latin America and the Caribbean make up the most “biodiverse” region in the world. By biodiversity we mean not only flora and fauna but also ethnodiversity. The region’s multi-ethnic range includes a…
The new progressive executive is the spokesperson of ‘los nadies’, the marginalized, the “nobodies”, including Afro-Colombians. Many reforms are designed to create greater social justice. But they clash with a parliament in the hands of the opposition. After more than two hundred years of republican history characterized by political violence and conservative and oligarchic governments, Colombia has…
Successive governments have failed to improve the political and economic conditions of Afro-Ecuadorians. Drug-related crime is making their conditions even worse. Afro-Ecuadorians represent approximately 7-10% of Ecuador's total population. This means that there are between 1.2 and 1.75 million Afro-descendants in a country of approximately 17.5 million people. Most of this population is concentrated in the provinces…
The constitution and laws should protect their rights. In reality, this is not the case: because of confiscated land, 70% of these Afro-descendants live below the poverty line, their language is threatened with extinction and their human rights are systematically violated. The Garifuna are an Afro-indigenous people originally from the island of Saint Vincent, but now…
The Comboni missionary, Father Rafaello Savoia is one of the main pioneers…
A complex history has shaped relations between Muslims and Christians in Indonesia.…
Monsignor Pablo Virgilio David, of the diocese of Kalookan, on the outskirts…
On December 7, the Pope will create 21 new cardinals. Between Iran…
Peasant communities of indigenous origin see the land not as a…
Pascoal was a soldier for 30 years and now leads the…
It belongs to the Pedaliaceae plant family and is commonly called…
Contact with nature is omnipresent in the culture and the local…
According to United Nations (UN) data, approximately 134 million people of African descent live in the…
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The UN is currently working on a draft “World Declaration on People of African Descent”, with…
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“What we would like to achieve when we talk about peace. Peace means self-determination. Peace means biological conservation. Peace means revitalization of our culture and…
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At that time Viracocha, the creator God, looked down upon the earth. He saw it was bare, shrouded in impenetrable darkness, for daylight did not yet…
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“Young Africans are playing an active role in bringing social change in the continent. They are contributing daily to the benefit of their communities and nations…
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