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
Death is a sad and dark time among the Baganda. Loss of a loved one…
01 Aug 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
Marriage in Buganda was one of the most important activities and a time for merry…
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
For years, the question of minerals has been at the centre of political debate and…
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 combination of increasing poaching uncontrolled demographic growth leading to forest encroachment and the destruction…
01 Apr 2020
The most direct cause for the decrease of wildlife population is poaching. Rhino poaching is…
01 Apr 2020
Another indirect threat is the boom of extractive industries. In the DR. Congo, oil blocks…
01 Apr 2020
Jordan has few resources. It is one of the world's leading exporters of phosphate, but…
01 Mar 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
Owing to a lack of evolution of agricultural techniques, slash-and-burn agriculture remains the most frequent…
01 Jan 2020
Logging is another major threat. It provokes soil erosion, water pollution and reduces the regeneration…
01 Jan 2020
According to recent NASA satellite information there are five times more wildfires burning in Africa…
01 Jan 2020
Central African forests are also vulnerable to the effects of climate change which could generate…
01 Jan 2020
The continent of Africa is becoming one of the major transit hubs for the movement…
01 Dec 2019
The North African area, with its vast desert regions that are difficult to police and…
01 Dec 2019
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 agricultural and metal products of Amazonia are exported on a large scale. For example,…
01 Oct 2019
For Amazonia, in the defence of the sacredness of life and of its people, there…
01 Oct 2019
The Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region will be held this month in Rome.…
01 Oct 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
Interregional migration, or the movement of people between geographic sub regions, is also a key…
01 May 2019
African bishops are aware that, when there is a massive movement of people, the countries…
01 May 2019
Globally, in 2017, there were around 258 million international migrants, approximately 3.4% of the world…
01 May 2019
African migration patterns do not happen in a vacuum. Rather, they are situated within major…
01 May 2019
If it is true that the Christian Europe of the Middle Ages was shaped by…
01 Apr 2019
From its very foundation, Debre Libanos grew in prestige and power until it surpassed all…
01 Apr 2019
Among the many Ethiopian monasteries Debre Damo deserves to be mentioned first. Not because it…
01 Apr 2019
If we mention the monastery of Hayk (or Hayq) among the three chosen for this…
01 Apr 2019
The cancellation of the effective reforms imposed during the decade in which the social-democrat government…
01 Mar 2019
The country has always been at the centre of tensions and troubles, provoking a sequence…
01 Mar 2019
It was the Maya who, long ago, inhabited those territories that were later colonised by…
01 Mar 2019
In December 2006, thanks to the support of the international community, a new truce was…
01 Mar 2019
It is now almost five years since the coup d’état that took place in…
01 Feb 2019
Bangkok seems to be a champion of futuristic architecture but its lights simply overwhelm without…
01 Feb 2019
Thailand is now witnessing the disappearance of its myth as a 'Teflon Country', unmoved by…
01 Feb 2019
The nation, the monarchy and Buddhism are the pillars commonly attributed to the Thai identity.…
01 Feb 2019
The Limpopo River Basin is a fragile environment threatened by the combined pressure, of climate…
01 Jan 2019
The Zambezi River is one of Africa’s main energy assets and could become as well…
01 Jan 2019
The Senegal River is a main source of life and prosperity for three West-African countries.…
01 Jan 2019
The Niger River is the main source of life of large parts of West Africa.…
01 Jan 2019
In the new geopolitical context that is developing worldwide, Africa is increasingly seen as a…
01 Dec 2018
Over the years, President Putin has attentively observed the political, economic and military strategy of…
01 Dec 2018
It is a fact that Libya is of fundamental importance for the Russian Federation since…
01 Dec 2018
Moscow began to take its first steps in the African context during the “Soviet period”. Since…
01 Dec 2018
In the context of the changes in power relations on the Asian continent, the movements…
01 Nov 2018
The collapse of the Soviet Union has characterized the birth of new and important geopolitical…
01 Nov 2018
The new centrality and strategic importance assumed by the Indian Ocean have unquestionably created competition…
01 Nov 2018
China may certainly be described as the more relevant protagonist in this change, finding itself…
01 Nov 2018
Negative impacts of deforestation require proactive interventions in order to reverse the trend. African governments…
01 Oct 2018
The most common pressures causing deforestation and severe forest degradation are agriculture, unsustainable forest management,…
01 Oct 2018
In Africa, forests play a vital role in providing goods and services to people and…
01 Oct 2018
Man is aware that he did not create nature. The earth, with all it contains,…
01 Oct 2018
In his Easter Urbi et Orbi message, Pope Francis urged all nations to “meet the greatest needs of the moment through the reduction, if not…
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0nce upon a time the chimpanzee and the crocodile were good friends. At midday, the chimpanzee would always go to the riverbank and call the crocodile:…
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Starting afresh from children to build a peaceful future in Africa. Rely on their energies to transform the continent into a better place. This is the sense…
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