Malvinas: The Strength of a Just Cause↗
Only a few weeks ago, the Question of the Malvinas Islands once again took centre stage on the international agenda. The Organization of American States (OAS), the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization (C24), and the States…
Africa loses USD 90 billion annually to illicit financial flows, warns Dr. Tedros↗
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom has issued a stark warning that Africa loses an estimated USD 90 billion annually to illicit financial flows, severely undermining the continent’s public health…
Africa bears 25% of global disease burden yet contributes under 4% to clinical trials, AKUH warns↗
Health sector leaders from the Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), Nairobi, have issued a stark warning regarding Africa’s heavy reliance on external health expertise and research, cautioning that the status quo places the continent at…
Invitation to Bid (ITB)↗
Establishment of a Long-Term Agreement (LTA) for the Provision of Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Services UNDP-ETH-00781 Negotiation: UNDP-ETH-00781 The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), on behalf of Office of the United Nations…
The FX Auction Meant to Restore Order Turns Two↗
The foreign-exchange auction turns two this month. Its 25 rounds since August 2024 have offered a running scorecard of the dollar market. More often than not the bids have run ahead of the dollars on offer. The auctions have injected…
Breaking the debt and currency cycle↗
Ray Dalio’s ‘How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle’ is not a book about one country, one government or one moment of bad policy. It is a warning about a recurring economic pattern: countries become vulnerable when debt rises faster than…
China, African media sign joint declaration to deepen audio-visual & AI innovation↗
China and African nations took a major step forward in expanding cross-continental cultural and media ties as the 7th Forum on China-Africa Media Cooperation opened in Beijing on August 20. Highlighting the deepening partnership, the…
Our AI, your problem↗
In 1971, US Treasury Secretary John Connally famously told European finance ministers that the dollar was “our currency, but your problem.” The Nixon administration had just suspended the greenback’s convertibility into gold, and the rest…
The “Might Makes Right” Policy↗
Power has always struggled to disguise itself as principle. In every era, dominant states have preferred their conquests to be understood as necessity, civilisation, law or security—rarely as the plain exercise of superior force against a…
asked for a concrete driveway not a swimming pool↗
a truly masterpiece of chaos↗
a shoe shine and repair shop↗
All-people Resistance and Korea’s Liberation↗
In the early 1930s, an anti-Japanese armed resistance led by the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung (April 15, 1912-July 8, 1994) was sweeping the northern part of the Korean peninsula and the vast swathes of Northeast China centring on the…
Who is Aman?↗
#Advertorial Greetings everyone. Is everything Aman? Allow us to introduce ourselves. We are Aman Properties. As a sister company of Amanet Group, a name recognized for its contribution to construction, riverside developments in Addis…
Africa faces trade crossroads as AGOA expiry nears↗
African governments, exporters and business leaders are preparing for a potential shift in the continent’s trade relations as the temporary extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) approaches expiration in December 2026.…
Who benefits from the migrant chaos in Spain?↗
What happened in the North African Spanish enclave of Ceuta last week was tragic for everyone involved. So let’s make it a regular thing, the EU apparently decided – at least judging by its actions. I’m not saying that anybody overtly…