Right in the middle of Eurasia, in that mass of land known as ‘The Heart…
01 Sep 2021
Kazakhstan achieved independence in December 1991 at a time when the dissolution of the USSR…
01 Sep 2021
The modernisation of the state forms part of the ‘Kazakhstan 2030 Plan’ launched by Nazarbayev…
01 Sep 2021
For Kazakhstan, the year 2019 may be remembered as a time of political change. President Nursultan…
01 Sep 2021
The Bororo culture is one of movement. There are different sorts of movement. First of…
01 Aug 2021
The Gerewol is the festival of bodily beauty. The young Bororo, after spending ascetic months…
01 Aug 2021
The cult of physical beauty is most important. The rules of aesthetics are followed by…
01 Aug 2021
The Bororo belong to the large ethnic family of the Peul, better known as the…
01 Aug 2021
There are at least eighteen countries, where children are recruited and used in armed conflicts.…
01 Jul 2021
It is estimated that there are 152 million children in the world who are compelled…
01 Jul 2021
They travel alone. They may fall into the hands of human traffickers. They often end…
01 Jul 2021
Born in the Caliphate and indoctrinated to believe in a ‘different world’. The images are few and…
01 Jul 2021
The discovery of oil, together with its geographical position, has brought Guyana to the attention…
01 Jun 2021
The recent discoveries of oil have brought Guyana to the centre of international attention. Many…
01 Jun 2021
In 1966, Guyana became independent of its mother country and joined the Commonwealth as an…
01 Jun 2021
Economically, with a per capita GNP of around $5,000, Guyana is one of the poorest…
01 Jun 2021
The sustainable future of humanity is bound by a double cord to the Rare Earth…
01 May 2021
China not has only reached 62% of the mineral production, around 90% of its overall…
01 May 2021
How does the rare earth market work? Which are the more desirable elements and which…
01 May 2021
Latin America has reserves of rare earth and 'technological metals' estimated to amount to 50…
01 May 2021
Far from the reflectors of global strategies and tensions, the small South-East Asian island country…
01 Apr 2021
With a population that is 70% ethnically Malayan, Brunei has been under the influence of…
01 Apr 2021
A small Catholic population. The seven pastoral priorities. Living under Sharia Law. Cardinal Cornelius Sim,…
01 Apr 2021
Seven years have passed and the real reasons for the introduction of the most severe…
01 Apr 2021
March 2021 will mark the tenth anniversary of the Syrian war. The bulk of the…
01 Mar 2021
The definition of civil war has never quite applied in the case of Syria. Ever…
01 Mar 2021
The Russians are the ones who, having taken a direct military role alongside Damascus in…
01 Mar 2021
On 6 March 2011, a group of teenagers wrote anti-government graffiti on a school wall…
01 Mar 2021
The Black Sea, besides being a transit zone for oil, is rich in energy deposits…
01 Feb 2021
A further crucial element in the balance of power in the Black Sea is that…
01 Feb 2021
The Black Sea is situated in the centre of the vast geographical area that runs…
01 Feb 2021
It was the conflict that broke out between Russia and Georgia in 2008 that challenged…
01 Feb 2021
Crisis in the economy, public health and the environment. Six countries will go to the…
01 Jan 2021
How to confront the consequences of Covid-19 as they affect the countries of Asia. China…
01 Jan 2021
Clouds appear on the horizon in Sahel and forthcoming elections in several parts of the…
01 Jan 2021
Socio-economic tensions rise but the COVID Pandemic buys time for governments under pressure. Tension between…
01 Jan 2021
It is not easy to juggle the various interests that revolve around the GGW, and…
01 Dec 2020
The Great Green Wall’s goal is clear: to regenerate 100 million hectares of degraded land…
01 Dec 2020
From a green wall of trees to a mosaic of ecosystems. From the moment it…
01 Dec 2020
Any ecological rehabilitation of a territory must consider several factors, not the least of which…
01 Dec 2020
Today, there are 40,000 inhabitants in Tivaouane, 100 km north-east of Dakar, the holy city…
01 Nov 2020
More than 90% of the population of Senegal, an officially secular country, profess the Islamic…
01 Nov 2020
On one of the Atlantic beaches of Yoff, rises the Great Layene Mosque-Mausoleum. The low…
01 Nov 2020
Touba, the holy city of the Muridiyya Brotherhood, situated in the centre of the country,…
01 Nov 2020
Clearly, Great Britain has played a fundamental role in the emergence of modern Oman, considering…
01 Oct 2020
Oman is distinctive in the Persian Gulf context because it has been traditionally ruled by…
01 Oct 2020
The Sultanate of Oman is in the Middle East, on the south-eastern end of the…
01 Oct 2020
During its history, Oman has been known by different names. Arab tribes, who emigrated from…
01 Oct 2020
China and Russia’s advances have prompted the United States to bolster its own efforts in…
01 Sep 2020
Russia, which in Soviet times pioneered space exploration in 1957 with the launch of the…
01 Sep 2020
Space has witnessed an intensifying level of economic-strategic activity as related to defense, protecting territory…
01 Sep 2020
The logic used by super powers in space is not an exclusively competitive one. In…
01 Sep 2020
The Buganda are a bantu speaking ethnic group found in Uganda. They are a very…
01 Aug 2020
Birth in Buganda is very important because it is the yard stick that measures a…
01 Aug 2020
The Bulgarian demographic crisis is the one that is most critical due to the speed…
01 Jul 2020
The Balkans and central Eastern Europe are experiencing the most serious and sudden drop in…
01 Jul 2020
Serbian demography is also following the trend of the other surrounding countries, registering a considerable…
01 Jul 2020
Romania, with its 19.6 million inhabitants, is going through a shocking demographic depopulation crisis. If…
01 Jul 2020
A country of striking and changing landscapes, extremes of climate and environment, in tourism, Mongolia…
01 Jun 2020
The advisability, possibility and feasibility of the elections for the new Mongolian parliament, the single…
01 Jun 2020
The question present in the recent history of Mongolia is whether the potential of the…
01 Jun 2020
The Moldovan political situation is extremely complicated. It reflects the clashes between the West and…
01 May 2020
The secessionist threat of the Gagauza community, which developed simultaneously with that of Transnistria, was…
01 May 2020
Geographically located on the very outskirts of southeastern Europe, Moldova is a small state nestled…
01 May 2020
From an economic point of view, Moldova is considered one of the poorest countries in…
01 May 2020
The strong demographic growth is a main driver of the decimation of the African wildlife.…
01 Apr 2020
The latest ‘Peace’ plan, the so-called ‘Deal of the Century’ by US President Donald Trump…
01 Mar 2020
Jordan is a country marked by ‘artificial’ borders, drawn on a map in the wake…
01 Mar 2020
Inevitably, the Jordanian government - and the political arrangement, which has taken decades to craft…
01 Mar 2020
In this new re-establishment of international balances in which Asia is acting as the leader,…
01 Feb 2020
In ancient times, the Atlantic Ocean was believed to be a mysterious extent of water…
01 Feb 2020
The Pacific, almost twice as big as the Atlantic, with an area of 161 million…
01 Feb 2020
Besides having always been that part of the world where the most of commercial interchange…
01 Feb 2020
The region has acquired a key role in the drugs trade, becoming the major platform…
01 Dec 2019
A large part of the drugs coming from Latin America and Asia is controlled and…
01 Dec 2019
Ever since it won the first democratic elections, held in November 1989 and supervised by…
01 Nov 2019
The structure of the economy of Namibia reflects the contradictions that are typical of all…
01 Nov 2019
With only 2.6 million inhabitants and an area of 824,292 square kilometres, Namibia presents a…
01 Nov 2019
The SWAPO movement succeeded in bringing on board the different ethnic groups, even co-opting some…
01 Nov 2019
The defense of the environment and its peoples. New ministries for the Christian communities. The…
01 Oct 2019
There has never been a Kurdish State. But, there has been and still exists a…
01 Sep 2019
There has been a tendency on the side of the mainstream media to describe this…
01 Sep 2019
As the Ba’ath increasingly dominated the State, the Communists faced greater restrictions on their activities.…
01 Sep 2019
Iraq, the country established on the land of the Assyrians and Babylonians of ancient Mesopotamia,…
01 Sep 2019
The maras are characterized by their particular ritualism, their violent initiation rites and the tattoos…
01 Aug 2019
The phenomenon of organized crime is one of the plagues that most affects both the…
01 Aug 2019
El Salvador is one of the smallest countries in size of Central America, given that…
01 Aug 2019
In the general elections last February, Nayb Bukele established himself as the new President of…
01 Aug 2019
They live today almost the way they could have lived one or two hundred years…
01 Jul 2019
Travelling around the Gumuz region we did not see specific place for worship. Of course…
01 Jul 2019
Changes go very fast. There are many agents responsible for these changes. The first is…
01 Jul 2019
We have travelled for 500 kms in northwest Addis Ababa. First, it was along the…
01 Jul 2019
The 13 May 2019 elections in the Philippines have been correctly seen most of all…
01 Jun 2019
The tension between the presidency and the ecclesial hierarchy has considerably affected baptised Filipinos. The…
01 Jun 2019
But who is Rodrigo Duterte? A person with a judgemental mentality, partly due to his…
01 Jun 2019
With a Catholic population of over 80% of its 100 million inhabitants, the Philippines has…
01 Jun 2019
Advocacy is also defense when it acts to preserve the initial aims and values of modern discoveries. According to legend, when Vladimir Lenin was asked how…
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Long, long ago, the man-in-the-moon and his wife Atai, had a quarrel which led to very strange results. These two were the royalty of the skies…
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Anyone watching on television the images of burning forests, the raging floods destroying lands and villages, massive landslides burying homes and people have no reason to…
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