The MAET is the movement of singers and musicians who support the change in Togo. These artists often suffer retaliation. MAET is one of the voices of the opposition to President Faure Gnassingbé, ahead of the 2020 vote. The busy city road, which takes to…
Private Military Companies (PMC) have become an important player in geopolitics. These companies provide military contractors to states and private citizens and companies to…
The concrete dome on an island in the Pacific Ocean houses tons of radioactive waste. Now it’s cracking open. The escaping waste could soon…
Young people are taking to the streets defending democracy. Violence and arrest by the police. Beijing shows its military power. What future has Hong…
Iraq, the country established on the land of the Assyrians and Babylonians of ancient Mesopotamia, is one of the most bitter fruits of the Franco-British imperialist nation-building efforts in the post-WW1 scenario that was the ‘Sykes-Picot’ Accord, signed on May 16, 1916. British, French and, to a lesser extent, Russian diplomats decided how the former Ottoman provinces…
There has been a tendency on the side of the mainstream media to describe this movement as a monolithic entity, and interested in adopting the model of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In fact, the Shi’a movement in Iraq is more complex, having responded almost exclusively to specific indigenous socio-economic Iraqi mechanisms. While, one of the biggest…
As the Ba’ath increasingly dominated the State, the Communists faced greater restrictions on their activities. By the early 1980’s they had been virtually silenced. Indeed, the Ba’ath Party suppressed all secular opposition. The effect was that all political grievances were increasingly channelled through the Shiite Islamic movement. The Shi’a were poor, but well represented politically during the…
There has never been a Kurdish State. But, there has been and still exists a Kurdish nation. The Kurds have occupied the mountains that extend from western Iran to eastern Turkey through Iraq and Syria for centuries. because political boundaries have worked that way, and there is no Kurdish nation, as such, although they have occupied…
He could have left, and lived a better and more comfortable life.…
There is no feast in Ethiopia, religious or civil, so popular and…
What kind of challenges exist for Christians in Islamic countries? How to…
A special Synod on the Amazon called by Pope Francis to be held in Rome this October. The…
The people from Tapac are referred to as the tapeth. They…
Indigenous to North Africa, the Amazigh people, sometimes known as Berbers,…
He is considered one of the best living blues guitarists. He…
Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was imprisoned and exiled for his…
The vast expanses of the sea, the complexity of the maritime transportation system, the immense volume…
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Tracing South Korea’s approach to the continent under 4 presidents. During the 1960s, South Korea commenced a…
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Advocacy is about politics and change, values and beliefs, consciousness and knowledge. It is about building democratic organizations and expanding citizens’ skills to understand how…
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In the old days, all the animals used to make farms like men do today. They hoed the ground, planted the seed, harvested the grain and…
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Plastic is so prevalent in our lives that we don’t even notice it anymore. It is convenient. It is cheap. It is ubiquitous. The unfortunate truth…
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