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JULY 26, 2023 MAY have become a watershed in foreign military interventions as well as bilateral and multilateral relations in Africa. That a foreign country was told to withdraw its ambassador and armed forces was not new. What was new, however, was the speed and tenacity with which the foreign soldiers and ambassadors were told […]

CONTRADICTIONS AND CONTRASTS marked major events drawing attention on Africa in this month of September. Within four days, two remarkable weather events that tested the resilience of the continent occurred. They were going to lead to disasters of such a scale as to involve death tolls in excess of 14,000. This was just a conservative […]

SEPTEMBER 11 has become a date of global relevance, based on two significant events that took place in the Americas – one in South America and the other in North America. The latter was in the aftermath of the daring murder-suicide and brutal, coordinated terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001. An estimated 3,000 […]

WESTERN EUROPE now has every reason to feel apprehensive about the recent wave of coups in Africa. In particular, there has not been a worse period for France than this because almost all the coups have happened in francophone countries. The only exception in the past four years was that of Sudan that saw to […]

THE UNITED NATIONS General Assembly for the year 2023 commences in a fortnight. The global gathering tagged UNGA 78, an event which will bring leaders from various parts of the world together from September 18 to 26, will entail a lot of speechmaking by world leaders and country representatives as heads of governments. This annual […]

MULTILATERAL COOPERATION got another boost last Wednesday at the end of the 15th BRICS Summit in South Africa. Described as “Johannesburg II Declaration,” with a broad theme of “BRICS and Africa: Partnership for Mutually Accelerated Growth, Sustainable Development and Inclusive Multilateralism,” the report at the end of the meeting in Sandton, Gauteng, laid out 94 […]