On the 26th and 27th of February, the Russian Federation hosted over 500 participants from more than 130 countries in Moscow to challenge Western hegemony in the Second Congress of the International Russophile Movement (MIR). UWI documents in the following days some speeches delivered in the congress. Today we publish the presentation of Zwelivelile Mandla Mandela. Mandela is a member ...
Having been debated already for a long time, the reform of the United Nations and specifically its Security Council has gotten on the agenda within the Gaza Conflict, as the United States used its veto power and – at least politically – paralyzed the institution. We had the chance to interview Hans von Sponeck. Von Sponeck worked for 30 years ...
Reporting from Johannesburg / South Africa We are continuing to publish our interviews on the margins of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. To deepen insight into South African economic perceptions and expectations on the summit, the BRICS enlargement and trade in national currencies, we spoke to Asanda Luwaca. Luwaca is the Executive Chairperson of the National Youth Development ...
By Prof. Alfredo Jalife-Rahme * The hypothesis has been defended here that the war in Ukraine gets a multidimensional nature when the military battlefield has been extrapolated to two serious crises of global impact –energy and food– and, above all, to one in the Global South that seeks to break free from the US dollar through the very fashionable de-dollarization. ...
Last Tuesday, February 7, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov felt compelled to respond to the statement made by the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union (EU) Josep Borrell, about two countries that the Russian Foreign Minister had visited during his tour of Africa. In his opening speech at the European External Action Service ...