Kester Klomegah During the September ceremony to receive foreign ambassadors, Russian leader Vladimir Putin offered spiteful goal-setting policy outlines and some aspects of lofty Russia’s economic policy directions for Africa. Most of these directions considered significant have, over these years, featured prominently in all his previous speeches on …

Eric Zeusse  On September 28th, the AP headlined “Record methane leak flows from damaged Baltic Sea pipelines” and reported that “Methane leaking from the damaged Nord Stream pipelines is likely to be the biggest burst of the potent greenhouse gas on record, by far. … Andrew Baxter, a …

As central banks across the world simultaneously hike interest rates in response to inflation, the world may be edging toward a global recession in 2023 and a string of financial crises in emerging market and developing economies that would do them lasting harm, according to a comprehensive new …

The date August 22 should be remembered as the day of the euro’s “official” downfall. After a long period of being one of the foremost currencies, the euro has now become cheaper than the U.S. dollar. When the euro first came into existence, it fell sharply against the …

Putin must find a way to salvage Russia’s more modest gains after six months of fighting while forestalling the further erosion of Russian power. Russian president Vladimir Putin’s decision to order a partial mobilization is perhaps the greatest risk he has undertaken during his twenty-three-year tenure as Russia’s …

The United States must increase Putin’s costs in Ukraine while keeping the door open for a political settlement that serves our long-term global interests of stability and security. In the face of his recent military setback, Russian president Vladimir Putin has decided to escalate the war in Ukraine …

The Marine Corps and Navy remain at odds over the number of Light Amphibious Warships the Corps should acquire. The U.S. Marine Corps will rely on the Light Amphibious Warship to shuttle Marines and supplies throughout the Pacific in support of Marine operations in the world’s largest ocean. …

Russia certainly stands as the main loser of the war, irrespective of what comes next, but the need to reengage Moscow to stop the fighting is no less certain. To the end, Samuel Beckett insisted that he did not know who Godot was, nor what his two characters, Vladimir …

A new UN report reveals how the Ukraine war and its global impacts on food, energy, and finance are affecting women and girls disproportionately, both inside the country and around the world. The policy paper developed by gender agency UN Women and the Secretary-General’s Global Crisis Response Group, …