The oil industry is at the heart of the Angolan economy. But it benefits only…
01 Jul 2022
Since independence, the Church has been somewhat close to the MPLA, although it has always…
01 Jul 2022
The result of next August’s elections cannot be taken for granted. About 14 million Angolans…
01 Jul 2022
They have lost the prophetic voice they had in the days of apartheid. They have…
01 Jun 2022
The country is divided between two worlds, the world of the poor and the world…
01 Jun 2022
The former president faces two important trials. At the moment, he has only been in…
01 Jun 2022
Next December, the African National Congress will hold its five-yearly elective conference. President Cyril Ramaphosa…
01 Jun 2022
On May 9, the Philippines will be the scene of multiple elections that will have particular…
01 May 2022
In office since June 30, 2016, despite the criticisms, Duterte ‘the executioner’ seemed unstoppable. After having…
01 May 2022
Once again, on May 9, the Filipinos will also bring persistent situations to the polls…
01 May 2022
The motto of the 500th anniversary year was ‘Missio ad Gentes’, to show that the…
01 May 2022
The Emirate Federation, created in 1971 out of the union of the six monarchies (seven…
01 Apr 2022
The history of the United Arab Emirates is unique in the scenario of the Near…
01 Apr 2022
The strategic asset of the United Arab Emirates finds its place in the broader security…
01 Apr 2022
During the past decade, the United Arab Emirates has brought to the fore an important…
01 Apr 2022
In the last years one of the different ethnicities that live on the continent was…
01 Mar 2022
Nomadism caused Peuls to move between different areas that, after the decolonization, became independent states.…
01 Mar 2022
The fight is not only between Peuls and other groups. In many areas there is…
01 Mar 2022
The crisis of traditional authorities is a common phenomenon in many northern areas in West…
01 Mar 2022
In the world of rural Africa, the market is not just a place for buying…
01 Feb 2022
Approaching the market of any African city, the visitor is immediately involved. The eyes are…
01 Feb 2022
In some rural areas of the Sahel such as the Mossi plateau in the north…
01 Feb 2022
It is still dark when Esther rises. The children are still asleep and her husband…
01 Feb 2022
The country is extremely rich in water resources and minerals. The latter have featured largely…
01 Jan 2022
Azerbaijan is a Caucasian republic located in the south-east, straddling Asia and Europe, in an…
01 Jan 2022
In the autumn of 2020, the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan again broke out violently…
01 Jan 2022
In 1917, ownership of the region of Karabakh was claimed by the new-born republics of…
01 Jan 2022
In the vast semi-desert uplands of southern Ethiopia, and in the northern desert region of…
01 Dec 2021
Among the Borana people marriage is preceded by several stages and long negotiations, which can…
01 Dec 2021
The birth of a child is always an important event that brings joy to the…
01 Dec 2021
Every eight years, the feast of final Borana passage called Gadamoji, when a man reaches…
01 Dec 2021
Marriage is highly esteemed among the Banyakole and it is one of the most expensive…
01 Nov 2021
Prior to the Christian missionary movement in the 19th century, the Ankole people’s idea of…
01 Nov 2021
Places, legends, instruments, dances, to preserve the Ankole’s rich and diverse culture. At a glance…
01 Nov 2021
Ankole is one of the oldest and most famous dynasties in Uganda. It is believed…
01 Nov 2021
Located between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, Trinidad and Tobago are part of…
01 Oct 2021
The discoveries of large deposits of oil and gas between 1970 and 1990 brought about…
01 Oct 2021
As well as the high crime rate and the phenomenon of migration from Venezuela, during…
01 Oct 2021
Due to its varied history, Trinidad and Tobago represents one of the most multiracial countries…
01 Oct 2021
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
For Kazakhstan, the year 2019 may be remembered as a time of political change. President Nursultan…
01 Sep 2021
The modernisation of the state forms part of the ‘Kazakhstan 2030 Plan’ launched by Nazarbayev…
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
In the Philippines, the missionaries of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) are committing to plant 100,000 seedlings of Bamboo by 2022. With an…
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The Chief of the Sky Gods had many stories to tell. As Spider listened to the stories of the Sky God, he said to his wife,…
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Three Comboni Missionaries talk about their missionary experience. My name is Gédéon Ngunza Mboma from Democratic Republic of Congo. For the last eleven years, as a…
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