The first major war of the new scramble for Africa is being fought in Libya as big powers fight over the spoils of war. Ever since NATO intervened to help depose Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in Oct...
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Brazil’s President Bolsonaro Tests Positive for Coronavirus
As the coronavirus continues it’s inexorable spread around the world, South America is becoming one of the worst affected areas and Brazil has the second-worst coronavirus outbreak in the...
Russian Arms Sales are Fueling Africa’s Conflicts
Russia plays a critical role in Africa, it is responsible for 49% of arms exports to the continent and those arms sales are fueling Africa's conflicts.
From Probation to Regulation: The Economics of Cannabis...
Governments are now moving from probation to cannabis legalisation, as a way to tackle the increase in consumption and take away benefits from it.
Sub-Saharan Africa has a Huge Drug Problem and it Will Get Worse
When it comes to drugs, the focus has largely been on developing regions as sites of production or transportation, rather than consumption. The reality is however, far more shocking. Sub-Saharan...
The Strange Creatures That Are Boosting Local Farmers in Zanzibar
It’s worth remembering that farming of anything is not exactly natural. It’s how we’ve managed to organise our food production and produce it in volumes and formats that work with the way we...
The Rise, and Potential Fall of the Asian Century
With the US/China relationship becoming increasingly fractured China-USA relationship, questions about Asia’s future and the emerging new world order are being asked, casting doubt on the dream of...
The Effect of Polarised Politics on American Diplomacy
Former deputy secretary of state, and author of The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for its Renewal, William J Burns puts forward a strong argument that the partisan divide...
As The Arctic Thaws a New Cold War Heats Up
Many commentators were surprised by Donald Trump’s recent announcement ordering the construction of a fleet of icebreakers and two new military bases designed to strengthen US interests in the...
Dante Lee Was Denied a Coronavirus Test. It’s a Familiar Story...
Dante Lee is an African American living in San Diego. In early March, he began showing symptoms of COVID-19. As any responsible adult should do, Dante began self isolating. But three days later, as...
Africa in Lockdown: Why the Cons Outweigh the Pros
For nations where older people make up less of the population, the health benefits of a lockdown are more limited. The downsides outweigh the pros, which can lead to long-term effects in African...
Is Sweden’s Approach the Right Way to Tackle the Coronavirus?
Nations around the world are using different tactics to deal with the novel coronavirus, but almost all of them involve some form of lockdown and social isolation orders. Sweden however, decided to...
Coronavirus and Starvation. How Lockdowns are Increasing Hunger...
One of the few positives that has come from lockdowns around the world is that many people in the west are experiencing the joys of cooking for the first time. However, while they are doing so...
Coronavirus is Coming to the Developing World and No-one is...
Policy failures meant that the western world failed to test its population, but that’s a luxury the developing world cannot afford. The lack of resources, when added to their huge populations, is a...
Is China’s Belt and Road Initiative COVID-19’s Biggest...
The BRI was meant to solidify the global reliance on China as the world’s supplier. However, because of the pandemic, many private industries have either shut down, or shifted to manufacturing...
The Lockdown in India Has Sparked the Nation’s Worst Migration...
Announced just hours before going into effect, the lockdown has sparked the nation’s worst migration crisis since independence. Millions of migrant workers have since been scrambling to get home...
Forgotten Women: The Unseen Victims of the Venezuelan Crisis.
Politician corruption, high unemployment and record breaking inflation have created a humanitarian crisis like no other in Venezuela. The nation, once the richest in South America during the 1960’s...
Locked Down Borders Leave Migrants Out In The Cold
As the COVID-19 crisis continues to grip the planet, travel restrictions have become the de-facto method of control. Nearly 80 countries have now locked down their borders to curb the spread of the...
How One Man’s Words Led To the Deaths of 25 People in Delhi
The Hindu-Muslim divide in India has always loomed large over the nation. Since the election of Narendra Modi, the rightwing BJP leader, that divide has only become more prominent. In February, the...
Did Women Just Save Sweden From Its Men? A Look at a Swedish...
Every once in while a political moment springs up that makes me think a bit more deeply about what it reveals about the changing world we live in and the recent Swedish election are, for me, just...