Is Drowning Immigrants the EU’s New Strategy?
And you are a mother – from an African country or war-ravaged Syria and Afghanistan – with small kids on a boat full to the brim with people who are destitute like you.
Haftar Wants to Drag Turkey into the Libyan Conflict
This accident came amid the escalation of tensions between Turkey and Haftar, and one day after Haftar’s self-style army – the so-called Libyan National Army (composed of local militias and gangs, Salafi Maskhali radical groups and mercenaries from African countries) – threatened to target Turkish ‘strategic targets.
Ethiopia: Political Reforms, Violence, and Now a Coup d’Etat
The African nation had survived a cataclysmic and potentially ruinous moment.
China Caught Between Nationalism and Multiculturalism
Chinese products have circulated from Latin America to Africa and the Middle East through free market, open access routes and a rule-based global economic order.
Turkey’s Elections Are Not Determined By Identity Politics
A quarter century after the USSR – a state based on enforcing an extremely radical and violent version of those universalist Enlightenment ideals -- disintegrated, is it any wonder that the politics of the various successor states are dominated by nationalism? How much ordem e progresso was achieved by the modernizing military juntas of Central and South America? What about the modernizing elites of Africa’s de-colonizing societies, after taking over the administrative and security institutions already established by the colonizing powers, intoning après nous le déluge in order to obtain weapons and massive development credits from those former colonizers? Did the native administrators – subordinate to the colonizers but lords over their own peoples -- of the South and Southeast Asian British, Dutch, and French colonial empires quickly provide liberté, egalité, fraternité to all of the masses they inherited regardless of caste, gender, ethnicity, or religion? Unfortunately, the vast majority of Westerners have little idea about the details of how these questions have continued to develop over the past century.
A Revolution Undone: What’s Next for Sudan’s Uprising?
The African Union announced that Sudan’s membership is temporarily frozen and called for immediate civilian rule in the country.
Sudan: On the Road to Revolution or Violence?
The African Union commission chairman, Moussa FakiMahamat, in a press release condemned the crackdown on protestors and called for a transparent investigation.
Moroccan Foreign Policy at the Crossroads
The Kingdom is already allocating more attention to West Africa, and there is a combined sense of apprehension and fatigue of perfidious Arab politics.
Will the Far-Right Lead Europe?
In terms of people arriving by sea from the MENA (Mediterranean and North Africa) region, Italy is one of the leading countries in Europe.
The Libya Crisis and the Future of Khalifa Haftar
Haftar's entry to Tripoli and seizure of the administration via weapons will create an environment where extremist and radical groups will expand their area of influence in Libya and North Africa.
A Tale of Two Erdogans: How The West Went Rogue on Turkey
More recent years have seen Turkey expand its economic and cultural connectivity throughout Africa with investment projects and visits by major Turkish officials becoming ever more common from South Africa to Sudan.
Egypt’s Constitutional Change and the Future of the Sisi Regime
Germany, on the other hand, supported the Sisi regime for Egypt’s strategic position in preventing a new migration wave from Africa.
Sudan and the Nile Spring: Raptures of Hope and the Uncertain Road Ahead
udan is going through decisive and uncertain times: on Thursday April 11, 2019 the military toppled the regime of Omar Al-Bashir and installed a military council to govern the Eastern African nation; within 24 hours of the coup d’ etat, the head of the military council Ahmed Awad ibn Ouf resigned and handed power to Lt.
Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Equation
The world has witnessed and is witnessing this very fact in Africa and in the Middle East.
Christian Zionists, Zionists and Authoritarian Regimes in the Middle East: A Bermuda Triangle?
All parties of the Bermuda Triangle are destroying Islamic values of the bleeding Muslim societies in the Middle East and North Africa, and are now attacking them in the West with the rise of White supremacist rhetoric.
The Resettlement of Refugees: A Test for European Values
Considering that most migration movements originating from Asia and Africa are directed towards Europe, it can be stated that the responsibility of EU institutions and member states has increased.
R.I.P. Julian Assange: The Annoying Australian Will Be Quite a Catch for Trump
The speak-your-weight machine opprobrium from UK government ministers is shameful but indicative of just how far Britain has sunk as a nation once a champion of freedom of speech but has now become a West African tin pot dictatorship whose leader considers the profession of journalism as a crime and the raw commodity of truth a derivative of Ebola, which needs to be quarantined and destroyed.
The ‘Far-Right Poster Boy’ that received Funds from the New Zealand Terrorist
" A crew who chartered a ship for their effort to send refugees “back to Africa” by harassing and blocking search and rescue vessels run by NGOs, who safe the lives of refugees in the Mediterranean.
The Age of Erdogan has Brought Stability and Political Flexibility to Turkey
As such, Turkey’s expanding relations with multiple African partners will likewise help the Belt and Road initiative to develop along positive multilateral lines.
To Counter Turkey, Saudi Arabia Backs the YPG in Syria
The deepening of Saudi Arabia’s partnership with the YPG unfolds against the backdrop of scores of other issues that have severely tested Ankara-Riyadh relations in recent years from the Qatar crisis to the Jamal Khashoggi saga, and geopolitical competition in the Horn of Africa to the politics of post-2011 Egypt, as well as the failed coup plot against Turkey’s government in 2016.
