By Halim Gençoğlu Introduction Burkina Faso, a landlocked West African nation, has experienced significant political and social upheaval in recent years. The rise of Captain Ibrahim Traoré to the presidency in 2022 marked a pivotal moment in the country’s history. This paper delves into the current situation in Burkina Faso, examining the socio-political dynamics that have shaped Traoré’s leadership and popularity. ...
By Dr Halim Gençoğlu The Catholic Church stands at a critical crossroads. As it grapples with declining credibility in the West, growing spiritual hunger in the Global South, and internal calls for reform, questions surrounding its future leadership have taken on renewed urgency. For centuries, the papacy has been shaped largely by European traditions and perspectives, even as the heart ...
By Ali Rıza Taşdelen In the last four years, the struggle against neo-colonialism in Africa has continued to achieve significant successes. Coup plotters? While its roots go back further, a decisive turning point occurred in 2020 when a group of anti-imperialist revolutionary officers in Mali overthrew the pro-French government, shut down French military bases, and expelled their troops. This marked ...
By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein Shanghai, November 12, 2024. In his magnificent work “Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism”, written in 1916 and published for the first time the following year, Vladimir I. Lenin delineated, at the dawn of the twentieth century, the contours of the colonial situation that permitted placing it as the fundamental characteristic of the imperialist stage of ...
“We will not make the great future we are looking for, If we do not know the great past we had.” Commandante Hugo Chávez January 15, 2006 By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein A few weeks ago, I listened to a press conference and an interview with Jorge Rodríguez. In both news events, the president of the National Assembly of Venezuela explained ...
By Hend Selim Dr. Mohamed Torshin, writer and researcher in the African affairs has spoken to UWI about expected developments in the Democratic Republic of Congo after the last coup attempt, the presidential election that witnessed chaos, postponing the parliamentary election. He also has talked about the curse of resources in Congo and how the colonial powers exploit conflicts in ...
The Sahrawi Writers and Journalists Union organized a conference with the theme “A Press Perspective on the Western Sahara Issue and Developments”. Journalists from numerous countries attended the meeting. From Türkiye, Kıvanç Özdal, the Head of Foreign News at Ulusal Kanal TV channel, cameraman Zafer Alpuğan and Aydınlık Newspaper columnist Ali Rıza Taşdelen were present at the meeting. In his ...
By Tahran Oruçoğlu, Baku, Azerbaijan The history of tension between Azerbaijan and France is not new. France was one of the three co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, which was created to normalize relations and achieve peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia. However, during the conflict, the Minsk Group did nothing to solve the problem. After Azerbaijan ensured its territorial integrity, ...
Aydınlık newspaper and Ulusal Kanal TV channel from Türkiye met with Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Foreign Minister Mohamed Sidati. Sidati answered questions of journalists Kıvanç Özdal and Ali Rıza Taşdelen at the Boujdour Refugee Camp of the Polisario Front on the border of Algeria and Western Sahara. From Spanish colonialism to Moroccan occupation Kıvanç Özdal: Today here is taking place ...
During the week two great friends and brothers left us, Alexis Texier, Chilean, a fellow fighter in those fateful days of frontal combat against the civil-military dictatorship commanded by Pinochet. Likewise, Roberto Cirilo Perdía, a Montonero leader who helped me take the first steps in clandestine life in those intense 70s and 80s of the last century, passed away to ...