All-Out-War between Ethiopia and Sudan on the Doorstep?
Domestic politics in Ethiopia and Sudan fuel the conflict and the border disputes, which are also conditioned by the geopolitical developments in Northeast Africa.
Will Latin America Turn into Another Domain of Right-Wing Politics?
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Latin America is a region with the highest inequality gap - even higher than Sub-Saharan Africa.
Is the UAE-Saudi Political Alliance Sustainable?
While the UAE-Saudi Arabia axis continued its anti-Turkey policies, it also followed similar policies in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Horn of Africa, Libya, Syria, Iraq, and lately in the Maghreb region.
Modern-Day Orientalists Have Never Understood the Arab Spring
However, with the financial crisis of 2007/08 and its aftermath shocks, youth unemployment, inflation, and the cost of living skyrocketed in many Middle East and North African (MENA) countries - as they did across the globe.
The Insurrection and Its Discontents: American Exceptionalism Revisited
From the genocide of the Native Americans, to the enslaving of millions of Africans, to the never-ending interventions in South America - starting with the Monroe doctrine of 1823 - all the way to the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, American exceptionalism has always served the purpose of reinforcing the notion that America possesses a moral, divine right to do as it pleases for the betterment of mankind.
GCC Breakthrough Faces Risk of Relapse as Underlying Tensions Remain
The engagement of these blocs in a power competition has certainly intensified and regionalized local conflicts in the Middle East, North Africa and beyond.
Macron’s “Islamist Separatism” Discourse Is An Islamophobic Hysteria
He explained his formula last year in January in the old capital of the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire, Abidjan, by saying, "Colonialism was a big and serious mistake of the French Republic!" Implying that it is all in the past now, he made a call to all of Africa, "Let's turn this page now.
Political Assassinations: From the Assassins to Modern Politics
What is most worrisome about political assassinations today is that just like the assassination of Ferdinand in 1914 was the…
The Hirak Movement in Algeria Continues to Demand Change
The policies of President Tebboune’s government have not succeeded in giving answers to “their excellency, the people,” but have only engendered new questions regarding how profoundly difficult it is to get rid of the “gang” running Africa’s biggest country.
French Youth and the Far-Right: When Will the Culture War Begin?
Theorized by the extreme right-wing writer and theorist Renaud Camus, the Great Replacement is a racist and xenophobic conspiracy theory according to which there is a deliberate process of substitution of the French and European population by a non-European population, primarily from Black Africa and the Maghreb.
Overcrowded and Under Siege: Worrying Pandemic Scenarios in Gaza
“The harrowing descriptions by ambulance drivers and other medics of the utterly impossible situation in which they have to work, with bombs and bullets killing or injuring their colleagues as they try to save lives, paint a grim reality of life in Gaza,” said Philip Luther, Middle East and North Africa director of Amnesty International.
Morocco Lost One of Its “Sacred” Causes with the Israel Normalization
For the Western Sahara conflict, only one political formation of Marxist affiliation, Annahj Addimocrati (The Democratic Way), is neutral and calls for the holding of a referendum on self-determination as accepted by Hassan II and adopted by the eighteenth summit of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the forerunner of the African Union (AU), in 1981.
Should We Care About the New Variant of COVID-19?
We should note that another variant that appeared in South Africa known as 501.
People of Color and Politics in the West: A New Trend?
Ayanna Pressley is an African American politician who made her way to politics through her early political engagement; she was the first African American woman to be elected to Boston City Council in 2010 and the first black women elected to the congress from Massachusetts.
Can Muslims Reclaim a Unified Political Bloc on the International Stage?
Gambia, a West African country many thousands of kilometers away from Myanmar, took the case to the ICJ.
Piracy and the Global Military Presence in the Gulf of Aden
The first and foremost difference is that unlike pirate attacks in other parts of the world, such as the Straits of Malacca (located between Malaysia and Indonesia), pirate assaults in the Horn of Africa mostly target large vessels and bulk carriers that often transport coal and iron ore, and tanker ships that transport petroleum, chemicals, and crude oil.
103 Years since Jerusalem’s Capture: Britain Is Responsible for the Plight of the Palestinians
Facilitating mass Jewish immigration to Palestine and Britain’s gross disregard for the indigenous Palestinian population and their national aspirations eventually led to the establishment of the state of Israel in May 1948, reshaping the entire geopolitical order of the Middle East and North Africa.
Has the Libyan Civil War Come to an End?
This is essentially what South Africa did at the end of Apartheid.
Will Biden Upend the Controversial US-UAE Arms Deal?
With Ankara and Abu Dhabi’s relationship continuing to deteriorate in a tense standoff that some experts label a Turkish-Emirati “Cold War”, Turkey would see a completion of this transfer as a major threat to Ankara’s own geopolitical and security interests in the Middle East and North Africa.
Who Is in Control of Egyptian Football?
he Club Champions League, the final game of the CAF (Confederation of African Football), took place on November 27, 2020.
