Existing and looming conflicts, “third-termism” and rigged elections are the main challenges.
The Jihadist threat, the leaders’…
01 Jan 2020
Syria and Iraq. The central role of the Russia in the region. The possible new nuclear…
01 Jan 2020
Eight countries, in all, are due to go to the polls to elect presidents or just…
01 Jan 2020
This year there will be several security hotspots around the continent. We focus on six African…
01 Jan 2020
Mogadishu and the Federal States are on a collision course regarding different issues, especially the management…
01 Dec 2019
Fishing rights sold off by governments to foreign companies. Illegal fishing and how it damages the…
01 Dec 2019
Environmental degradation will make the planet face up to challenges unknown until now. As a consequence…
01 Dec 2019
The drug-mafias have become experts in organization and logistical planning for the management of the dispatch…
01 Dec 2019
The 2,720 kilometre wall, which separates the areas occupied by Morocco and those liberated by the…
01 Nov 2019
He has transformed sterile land into a forest by digging trenches in the hardened earth that…
01 Nov 2019
In the Chadian region bordering with Libya, an area rich in gold,
we find a crossroads of…
01 Nov 2019
Xenophobic attacks against immigrants are causing a lot of damage to South Africa’s image across the…
01 Nov 2019
Tension between Pakistan and India in the disputed region of Kashmir. Against the background of the…
01 Oct 2019
A large oil and gas deposits off the Lebanese coast. Tensions with Israel. A massive immigration…
01 Oct 2019
Jihadist groups are expanding in Africa beyond the Sahel, from the Horn to Central and Southern…
01 Oct 2019
Abyi Ahmed Ali’s election in April 2018 raised considerable hopes in Ethiopia which he engaged steadfastly…
01 Oct 2019
Young people are taking to the streets defending democracy. Violence and arrest by the police. Beijing…
01 Sep 2019
The concrete dome on an island in the Pacific Ocean houses tons of radioactive waste. Now…
01 Sep 2019
The MAET is the movement of singers and musicians who support the change in Togo. These…
01 Sep 2019
Private Military Companies (PMC) have become an important player in geopolitics. These companies provide military contractors…
01 Sep 2019
Ongoing insecurity and bad governance contribute to the expansion of the second largest Ebola epidemics in…
01 Aug 2019
The continent is changing thanks to the increasingly frequent use of new technological tools. A journey…
01 Aug 2019
The first country to produce 90% of its energy from green sources.
The development of the…
01 Aug 2019
In the northern state of Kano in Nigeria a political war is ongoing. On one side,…
01 Aug 2019
Each day it is criss-crossed by invisible travellers who arrive after placing themselves in the hands…
01 Jul 2019
The long-awaited bridge spanning the Gambia River will open in July. The facility, which is set…
01 Jul 2019
According to the World Bank, 41% of the inhabitants of the continent do not exist in…
01 Jul 2019
The unrecognized state of Somaliland is receiving increasingly foreign support partly owed to its stability, its…
01 Jul 2019
Set to become the main mode of transport in Africa, motorcycle taxis invade roads and streets…
01 Jun 2019
Trump’s anti-Iranian Efforts Are Backfiring, But the Threat of Another Middle East War Looms Large
There are…
01 Jun 2019
Bonga is one of the capitals of Ethiopian coffee. At the corner of every alleyway, one…
01 Jun 2019
Tension is escalating between Uganda and Rwanda. A crisis is developing that is affecting the entire…
01 Jun 2019
There are areas of Africa where it is difficult to work as a journalist. A journalist…
01 May 2019
Criticisms force governments to place restrictions on the Internet. Serious violations of human rights and grave…
01 May 2019
The Easter Sunday bombings in and around Sri Lanka's capital left hundreds dead and injured. In…
01 May 2019
Another so-called Arab – or at least North African – Spring? Given the significant risks and…
01 May 2019
Twenty-five years after the genocide of the Tutsis in 1994, the country is peaceful and the…
01 Apr 2019
Four years after the crisis sparked by President Pierre Nkurunziza’s determination to run for a third…
01 Apr 2019
The Addis Ababa - Nairobi route, it’s often a necessary ‘rite of passage’ for those heading…
01 Apr 2019
Chinese high-tech companies are banking on Africa, especially on the 'Silicon Savannah' of Nairobi, to develop…
01 Apr 2019
The new President’s first decisions tilt towards authoritarianism, which is matter of concern owing to the…
01 Mar 2019
With Chinese technical and financial backing, a number of countries – from Tanzania to Angola, from…
01 Mar 2019
The presidential election of 2019 will be a crucial test for the Arab world’s democratic laboratory.
While…
01 Mar 2019
Lithium is a fundamental mineral in modern economy and Chile is particularly rich in it. This…
01 Mar 2019
Illegal logging and deforestation for agriculture and livestock activities are destroying the Bosawás Biosphere Reserve.
The Bosawas…
01 Feb 2019
The definition of The Maritime Silk Road seems never ending. The initial interest of the Chinese…
01 Feb 2019
The 30 December presidential and parliamentary elections have ended up in a farce. Monitoring group and…
01 Feb 2019
After two years of interruption, the railway traffic has resumed recently between the capital, Brazzaville and…
01 Feb 2019
Important political events will mark the Asian panorama in 2019 while the evolution of strategic and…
01 Jan 2019
The year 2019 looks extremely challenging in many countries of the continent where crucial elections are…
01 Jan 2019
The Return of Palestine and A Deepening
of the Shi’a-Sunni Divide.
One of the clearest lenses through…
01 Jan 2019
From a security point of view, in 2019 in Africa there will be several hotspots. We…
01 Jan 2019
Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi human rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery by Islamic…
01 Dec 2018
A 'no deal' Brexit could mean a temporary interruption of the diamond trade on the London…
01 Dec 2018
Illegal fishing or unauthorized fishing is a scourge affecting the countries of Africa, in particular those…
01 Dec 2018
The security of the continent has now become a 'private affair' of the Americans, the French,…
01 Dec 2018
More than one year after he was sworn in, the new Angolan head of state, João…
01 Nov 2018
Thousands of migrant children in transit for Mexico disappear. Meanwhile, in the United States they are…
01 Nov 2018
The largest infrastructure project in East Africa is likely to become obsolete long before it is…
01 Nov 2018
The now confirmed murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of a Saudi ‘investigation team’…
01 Nov 2018
Either the elections are rigged or they cannot take place for logistical and financial reasons. In…
01 Oct 2018
The invasive plant is spreading rapidly, threatening the ecosystem, the economy, tourism and the survival of…
01 Oct 2018
Ecuador and the Dominican Republic have become the new drug routes in collaboration with the Mexican…
01 Oct 2018
Political Battles Are Creating a Distraction from Main Problems Weakening its Young Democracy
Tunisian President Beji Caid…
01 Oct 2018
Refugee teachers create a school for young people in South Sudan.
The life of refugees is hard.…
01 Sep 2018
The issue of the redistribution of the land is splitting South African society and could deeply…
01 Sep 2018
The increase of the population, the great demand of coal and the search for fertile land,…
01 Sep 2018
Tensions are mounting in the Middle East. It’s not just about Syria; there are risks of…
01 Sep 2018
U.S. citizens possess at least 265 million of firearms with an average of 88 weapons to…
01 Aug 2018
Since his appointment in April, the new Prime Minister, Abyi Ahmed has provoked a strong wind…
01 Aug 2018
Forests are rapidly vanishing in Zambia. The country's rate of depletion of this natural resource is…
01 Aug 2018
What is the so-called ‘Middle East Peace Plan’ ? What this means, in practical terms ?…
01 Aug 2018
The cards suggest that the final showdown in Syria is approaching. Daraa, the city where the…
01 Jul 2018
The proximity of Yemen and its strategic geographic position have brought about the multiplication, in the…
01 Jul 2018
It is not so much immigration as clandestine arms trafficking that renders the Mexico/USA border highly…
01 Jul 2018
The Congolese government is considering to declassify areas in two national parks to allow oil exploration…
01 Jul 2018
Illegal logging drives other forms of environmental crimes such as deforestation, labour exploitation, land invasions, tax…
01 Jun 2018
According to UNESCO, Lake Chad has shrunk by 90 percent since 1963, with enormous environmental, economic…
01 Jun 2018
One evening, Mamadou Touré had just left the disco and was walking back home when a…
01 Jun 2018
Total world military expenditure rose to $1,739 billion in 2017, a marginal increase of 1.1% in…
01 Jun 2018
According to the opposition, the referendum would be a “death warrant” for the 2000 Arusha Peace…
01 May 2018
The 2018 FIFA World Cup to be held in Russia will be the greatest sporting show…
01 May 2018
Congo’s most popular politician, the former governor of Katanga, Moise Katumbi, might be excluded from the…
01 May 2018
Under the Guise of Security and Resources Niger Has Attracted Ever More Foreign Intervention. And Not…
01 May 2018
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga, the chief opposition leader, met in Nairobi, on 9th…
01 Apr 2018
A string of private financiers has met a considerable part of the public debt of the…
01 Apr 2018
China’s and other emerging countries’ appetite
for raw materials is causing a railway mania in Africa and…
01 Apr 2018
The Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital, and its Political Context, Has Ended the Middle East…
01 Apr 2018
Fights between rival gangs for territorial control. People's fear. An absent State. Daily life in Rocinha,…
01 Mar 2018
Ethiopia is passing through a period of turmoil due to ethnic tensions. Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn…
01 Mar 2018
After the phenomenon of Moroccan foreign fighters joining the ranks of the Islamic State, now the…
01 Mar 2018
The conflict diamonds issue is dying down, but new challenges are emerging. Will Africa be able…
01 Mar 2018
At recent EU-AU summit of Abidjan, much attention was focussed
on the tragedy of migrants sold as…
01 Feb 2018
The largest Latin American countries go to the polls to elect their presidents. Almost 80% of…
01 Feb 2018
Argentina, Bolivia and Chile boast the world’s largest reserves of lithium. The three countries, however, have…
01 Feb 2018
Are Turkey and the United States on a collision course on operation Olive Branch? What consequences…
01 Feb 2018
The year 2018 could See Current Middle East Tensions Reach Their Inevitable Bloody Conclusion.
The Middle…
01 Jan 2018
General Elections in Egypt, Sierra Leone, Mali, Cameroon and Democratic Republic of Congo. Possible political instability…
01 Jan 2018
In 2018 several African states will have to face a series of challenges at the security…
01 Jan 2018
If on the one hand Asia looks forward to 2018 with confidence, on the other there…
01 Jan 2018
On the one hand organised crime, assassins, the systematic destruction of the Amazon rainforest. On the…
01 Dec 2017
Tensions are rising since end 2016 in the English-speaking part of the country. Local bishops deplore…
01 Dec 2017
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri resigned and then he agreed to withhold his resignation. He has…
01 Dec 2017
Purchase of European teams, players and famous coaches. What's behind this great Chinese investment? It is…
01 Dec 2017
Democratic Aspirations and an Open Outlook to the World Make Kuwait Uniquely Suited to Mediate Disputes…
01 Nov 2017
The French justice will investigate on accusations against BNP Paribas’s financing of weapons which may have…
01 Nov 2017
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent health problems led to the emergence of Nigeria’s health problems. This…
01 Nov 2017
The survival of Nigeria as we know it now is increasingly put into question by separatist…
01 Oct 2017
While rebellions still rage in Eastern Congo and Kasai, tensions are rising in the Western Province…
01 Oct 2017
Panama breaks off from Taiwan and ties up with China Beijing. Taipei loses an important ally…
01 Oct 2017
Peru is now taking an important position in cocaine production and its trafficking. Complicity and corruption.…
01 Oct 2017
Each day thousands of mothers search for their lost children in the hospitals, morgues and clandestine…
01 Sep 2017
The Iraqi army and the various militias that support it, have stormed the town of Ayadiya,…
01 Sep 2017
Analysts said that in the future conflicts (especially internal wars) will be fought more and more…
01 Sep 2017
President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski completed the first year of his term on July 28, with little…
01 Sep 2017
The basin of the Nile is the turf of different wars between the riverine states. The…
01 Aug 2017
Migration has become the main driver of EU’s development policies. Even food security policies are envisaged…
01 Aug 2017
Bahrain, known in Babylonian antiquity as Dilmun, is a small island Kingdom. It is in the…
01 Aug 2017
Offshore mining is occurring in Namibia and in the Red Sea. But much more ambitious programs…
01 Aug 2017
The military crisis between the government and pro-Russian militia is still producing tensions. But we mustn’t…
01 Jul 2017
North Africa is one of the battlefields of the fight between the two major organizations within…
01 Jul 2017
Qatar’s efforts to find a way to live in harmony with Iran was the drop that…
01 Jul 2017
Since November, a series of strikes and demonstrations in Cameroon have been affecting the North-east and…
01 Jul 2017
The formation of micro-cartels is superimposing itself on the traditional large drug cartels. The petrol trade,…
01 Jun 2017
Terrorist attacks, tension between al- Sisi’s regime and the Coptic minority, the emergence of new militant…
01 Jun 2017
The Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani won with an unexpected landslide victory in a fiercely contested re-election…
01 Jun 2017
Parliament and local elections are scheduled sometime between June and August. But they take place in…
01 Jun 2017
Central Africa is falling behind all the other regions of the continent and risks to lag…
01 May 2017
Ten years after a historic verdict, which, in theory, allowed the Bushmen of the Kalahari reserve…
01 May 2017
The new president will face many challenges among others the repatriation of Syrian refugees. The role…
01 May 2017
The candidate for the ruling Alianza PAÍS party won the election in the second round of…
01 May 2017
Donald Trump’s decision to suspend the conflict minerals legislation has sparked an outcry among mainly Western…
01 Apr 2017
In February, the Moroccan government surprised the international community after withdrawing its troops from the disputed…
01 Apr 2017
A long list of ecologists who paid with their lives for their defense of the environment.…
01 Apr 2017
Street children in Kenya are often a nuisance to pedestrians and shopkeepers. They are also disliked…
01 Apr 2017
The Cradle of Secular Parliamentary Democracy Faces Daunting Obstacles. A risk to become a potential epicenter…
01 Mar 2017
Month after month, new revelations show that the Congolese mines continue to be plundered by a…
01 Mar 2017
After he took office, the Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte, an outsider in Filipino political history, set…
01 Mar 2017
'Balaknama', a newspaper that highlights the problems faced by Indian street children, but not only, the…
01 Mar 2017
Presidential elections will be held in Ecuador, Chile and Honduras. Results will shed more light on…
01 Feb 2017
As jihadist terrorism escalates in Europe, the collaboration between Moroccan and Algerian intelligence services and those…
01 Feb 2017
Forgotten conflicts in the eastern half of the country are posing a serious threat for the…
01 Feb 2017
Kashmir, a region disputed by two nuclear powers: India and Pakistan. The territorial war has turned…
01 Feb 2017
One year after the EU-Africa summit on migration, disappointment and frustration are predominant among the priority…
01 Jan 2017
They cover their face behind balaclavas. Greasy hands and heads bowed. Meeting the shoeshiners in La…
01 Jan 2017
First woman in Nigeria to graduate in mechanical engineering, founder of 'Lady Initiative' that forms girls…
01 Jan 2017
The Congo Forests are in danger. Biodiversity is declining and poaching persists even in Protected Areas.…
01 Jan 2017
Across the desert. In the grip of traffickers and military people. A long journey that can…
01 Dec 2016
President Daniel Ortega, wins the presidential elections for the third consecutive time. Without opposition, and alongside…
01 Dec 2016
Syria must borrow from Algeria to end its brutal internal war. Throughout the 1990’s (1992-2002), Algeria…
01 Dec 2016
While connectivity has sizeably improved on the continent, Africa lags nonetheless still far behind other parts…
01 Dec 2016
While The World’s Attention is on Syria, The United States is being drawn into another war…
01 Nov 2016
The government has declared the state of emergency after the death of at least 52 people…
01 Nov 2016
A wind of democratic claw backs on democratic gains is blowing across East and Central Africa.…
01 Nov 2016
The victory of the 'No' vote leaves Colombia in limbo. The country has no Plan B…
01 Nov 2016
Research has made considerable progress but the world is not yet ready to face another epidemics,…
01 Oct 2016
Discontent with president Zuma is growing. In the last local election the ANC lost the main…
01 Oct 2016
Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza has defied internal and external pressure to hold talks with the opposition…
01 Oct 2016
The dreaded jihadist group Boko Haram (BH) has received serious blows over the last months. Its…
01 Oct 2016
Issa Kouyaté is the Founder and Director of Maison de la Gare, a shelter in Senegal…
01 Sep 2016
