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DIPLOMATIC DRAMA UNFOLDED in Paris, the French capital, two months ago at the October 2024 Francophone Summit hosted by President Emmanuel Macron. An embarrassing moment came when DR Congo’s President Félix Tshisekedi walked out of the summit. It was a bold expression of discontent by President Tshisekedi against Macron’s handling of an issue of great […]

DOMINOS OF FRANCE in Africa are falling in quick succession. Clear signs of an end to Françafrique are becoming even bolder and more prominent in recent times. For the colonies in Africa the France grand assimilationist colonial policy is losing its relevance and appeal such that the sense of urgency in terminating it is becoming […]

Trump’s MAGA effect is going “glocal.” If there is anything called body language, it is what Trump’s second coming has been signalling since the months leading up to the November 5 election. Even before that election that gave Donald J. Trump the mandate to return him to the White House, his Make America Great Again […]

In their desperate attempts to retain power, the US Democrats wielded two-edged swords at each step of their battle. The swords effectively did cut both ways, but ended up hurting the wielders even more. First, they overreached their bounds by their relentless efforts to focus on how to destroy an opponent that was perceived as […]

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 […]