The White House has appointed a new Special Advisor for Africa Strategy at the National Security Council. Judd Devermont started the work in early October. He is expected to draw a new Africa strategy for the Biden Administration. Devermont is not new to the White House. After having started in the State Department in 2001, he worked as foreign policy ...
By Cansu Yigit The peace and stability process in Libya led by the United Nations (UN) is going down “a slippery slope” towards the December 24th. The Libyans are the ones likely to pay for a UN failure in Libya, which has been known for the mess it left on its peacekeeping missions all around underdeveloped or unstable countries. Footsteps ...
“After achieving independence, African countries pursued a de-colonization tied to the former metropole, resulting in lack of economic independence and industrialization. But today, multilateralism opens new possibilities to establish a true and own, African trajectory of development”, said Chris Matlhako, Deputy Secretary General of the South African Communist Party. “African development runs in cycles of approximately 60 years. The continent ...
On the southern side of the Mediterranean, Libya keeps on being in a political limbo. General elections are scheduled for December 24, but the Tobruk-based House of Representatives already postponed these for a month. The legislative base of the elections, including the question who will be permitted to candidate for the presidency, cause debate. Western countries headed by the US ...
Elections without rules The political process in Libya is once again poised to fail. On Monday, the country’s parliament (House of Representatives – HoR), sitting in the eastern part of the country, passed a law that postponed parliamentary elections by a month. “The election for members of the House of Representatives will take place 30 days after the presidential vote,” ...
The Soros-funded International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has published the Pandora Papers, claiming to disclose the secret offshore affairs of 35 world leaders, including current and former presidents, prime ministers and heads of state. The publication has sparked a debate. While the Washington-based ICIJ reports on leaders of developing countries in the Pandora Papers, it is noteworthy that no ...
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been sworn in for a second five-year term on October 4. Abiy’s Prosperity Party was declared the winner of parliamentary elections earlier this year in a vote criticized and at times boycotted by opposition parties and Western countries but described by some outside electoral observers as better run than those in the past, reported ...
As nuclear weapons stockpiles worldwide rise and countries upgrade their warheads and missiles there is an unprecedented need to de-escalate tensions and prevent nuclear Armageddon. Upon reading such a statement, one might regard it as self-evident. But the important thing is that it wasn’t you or me, but the Deputy Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces, General John E. Hyten, ...
By Awad Abdulsebur Ahmad / Addis Abeba Despite the unilateral humanitarian ceasefire declared by the government of Ethiopia in an effort to assist the smooth flow of humanitarian aid to the people in Tigray region, the conflict has continued, resulting in a devastating humanitarian crisis. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a militant group that is waging war with the ...
Africa is witnessing several coup d’etats, the rising threat of terror and the decline of US and French imperialism on the one side, rising economic and political activities of new powers such as China, Russia and Turkey on the other. We interviewed Chris Matlhako, 2nd Deputy Secretary General of the South African Communist Party, governing the country in the Tripartite ...