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CONSEQUENCES OF the US elections have extensive impacts of both local and global dimensions. These are already manifesting in the aftermath of the recently concluded presidential election. While the losers in the November 5 election within the US have been smarting over the shock of defeat and they must have started to figure out how […]

AMERICA’S DEMOCRACY, deemed the global epitome and exemplar by many countries of the world, is currently undergoing a test of relevance and endurance. Depending on which side the analysis is coming from, it is reasonable to expect divergent opinions on the outcome of the election that was recently concluded. The US political spectrum is comparable […]

FOR SUDAN, APRIL 15, 2023 was another watershed that began the build-up to a repeat of disastrous events that defined the country 20 years earlier. In 2003, Darfur was in the news for the wrong reasons. From 2023, events leading up to Darfur for earlier similar reasons began to unfold. Hope began to give way […]

THE GOALPOST ON ‘Silencing the Guns in Africa’ agenda has been shifted time and time again. Since this flagship initiative of the African Union’s (AU) Agenda 2063 was mooted, the timelines and deadlines have been altered under various circumstances and events such that the agenda only turned out to become plain sloganeering and mere mantra. […]

DAMS IN AFRICA are becoming time bombs, waiting to explode. The risk they pose can be enormous, particularly in the form of outcomes of infrequent weather events. Tragedies involving dams collapse in the past one year in response to such weather events have claimed lives, displaced people, inundated houses, killed animals, devastated crops, destroyed infrastructure […]

THE FLAMBOYANT JAMBOREE of visits to China by all African countries except one has ended and all the visiting presidents and heads of governments on such visits are presumably back in their home countries where they hold sway. What types of bargains those attendees made with China will be of great interest for their anticipated […]

ESWATINI, THAT TINY COUNTRY in the Southern African region was the only country not represented in Beijing last week during the ninth triennial summit on China-Africa relations. The summit, which is generally referred to as the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), has turned Beijing visits by African heads of state to some sort of pilgrimage. […]

Majority of adult Cameroonians below 50 years of age right now know little or nothing about any other president of their country. Paul Biya, the second president, will be 92 in 2025. Born February 13, 1933, he is undoubtedly the oldest person currently in power in Africa. He was a prime minister of Cameroon from […]

MONKEY POX EPIDEMIC in Africa is on the rise. The recent disclosures about potential public health risks are a bit belated, though unsettling. They betrayed the lackadaisical attitude of those who should be in charge of surveillance and preventive measures in a manner reminiscent of the way COVID-19 pandemic was initially treated at the onset, […]

A GLOBAL RESET IN the world’s population is underway. Painfully, it seems inevitable, especially when considered in the context of events that are reshaping the world of our time. Much of the changes associated with the current trends in migration will be irreversible. Expect many Asians to become American or Canadian citizens, many Africans to […]