Year: 2022
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EUROPE
Azerbaijan’s journey from victory to victory
By Aslan Aslanov Thirty years and 44 days. What is behind these numbers? First of all, the greatness and invincibility…
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AMERICAS
Time to think again about abolishing torture
Right now, 47 years ago to the day in the autumn of 1975, the corridors of the UN in New…
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BUSINESS
Some reflections on Russia’s economic diplomacy with Africa
By Kester Kenn Klomegah* During the September ceremony to receive foreign ambassadors, Russian leader Vladimir Putin offered spiteful goal-setting policy…
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AMERICAS
Corruption and human rights abuse in Paraguay
Toxic levels of corruption and lack of discipline in the military’s top brass, minister of the interior Federico Alberto Gonzalez…
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AMERICAS
Gun control is political control instrument
By Jason Innocent When an 18-year-old shooter entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and killed 19 children and two…
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AFRICA
U.S.-China cooperation and competition mutually reinforce Ethiopian development
By Ashwin Telang As one of the poorest countries in the world, Ethiopia needs international aid to escape poverty. Luckily,…
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ASIA
Avoiding a war without a winner: How we could ease the deadly US-China dispute
By Jacopo Demarinis In a world haunted by the specter of nuclear war, needlessly aggressive competition among nations could lead…
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ASIA
The Cambodian-UN war crimes trials are finally over
Finally, finally, the over-long, fifteen-year-long, trials of the leaders of the murderous Khmer Rouge leadership of Cambodia, are concluded. It…
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ASIA
Beijing’s scramble for soft power resurrection
By Collins Chong Yew Keat China’s media sway and influence-seeking drive throughout the world have been gaining intensity and scope,…
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AFRICA
Putting Benin back onto a democratic path
By Rogatien Biaou In recent years we have been witnessing the demolition of the precious democracy that Benin had built…
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