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In the last two decades, China has been one such country that has been targeted by Western powers (the USA in particular) through the mainstream media to discredit the country’s reputation in the international community.For many years, the world...

Two-thirds of these elections are packed into the last quarter of the year. A series of elections in southern Africa, where a single party has long dominated, may see their first transition of power while others may lose their legislative...

The DRC’s Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) has declared incumbent President Félix Tshisekedi the winner of the country’s presidential election with 72% of the vote. The resounding figure would seem implausible given the strong...

It is disheartening to state that leaders of 14 African countries have held onto power for more than two terms after evading term limits. This continues a pattern of term limit evasion observed since 2015, reversing an evolving trend of term limit...

The Israelis were trying to compromise US-Egyptian relations, particularly the efforts of the Eisenhower administration to finance the Aswan Dam.In the 1980s, the Israelis denied that Jonathan Pollard was spying on behalf of the Israeli intelligence;...

Examples here include violent elections in countries such as Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and others where the attendant search for redress through official and unofficial responses has, altogether, been largely trapped in deepening...

The greatest failure of its “Forever Wars,” however, may not be in the Middle East, but in Africa. “Our war on terror begins with al-Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found,...

What is the problem of international law that it has always failed to protect the people of Palestine? What is the missing link or the lacuna that Israel is getting away with its acts without any scrutiny? The answer lies in the international law...

Term limit evasions are at the root of a host of governance dysfunctions in Africa and are linked to higher levels of autocracy, corruption, conflict, and propensity for coups. Leaders of 14 African countries have held onto power for more than two...

Brigadier General Yitzhak Segev, who served as an Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s, had disclosed in an interview to The New York Times that he had contributed to financing the Palestinian Islamist movement as a...

His proposal lights the path forward as the world fumbles for solutions, and represents China’s contribution to global efforts to protect our shared home and create a better future of prosperity for all.The vision is based on both observation of...

Propaganda is used to rally the troops, manage public perceptions and garner support. Israel has firmly embedded the myth that it is a democratic, brave, vulnerable nation into the body politic of the United States.In their current war against the...

This is particularly pivotal on the African continent in the context of democratic consolidation and mitigating the unconstitutional changes of government. As such, questions on how to strengthen political transitions towards democratic governance...

Recently he gave an intellectually stimulating discussion on how the African Union Peace and Security Council (PSC) is lagging behind in implementing some vital recommendations that involve security.Given current threats to safety and stability,...

Political leadership in many African states is characterised by corruption and impunity where accountability, transparency and rule of law are lacking in many respect.This has in turn resulted in many local grievances which in many cases have led to...