At the invitation of President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa, I make a state visit to the Republic of South Africa and attend the 15th BRICS Summit. It is my sixth visit to the promising land of the “rainbow nation”. South Africa is home to the great statesman Nelson Mandela, …

The coup d’état in Niger has provoked the umpteenth crisis between Algeria and France, notes Spanish ‘Atalayar’ magazine. It all started after an Algerian public radio announced that Algiers had refused permission for French military aircraft to fly over Algerian airspace. As the media outlet recalled, Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s …

The three-day summit that began Tuesday in Johannesburg demonstrates how Washington has struggled to project influence throughout the vast, developing Global South, notes ‘Newsweek’. “The U.S. is trailing countries such as Russia, India and China in the Global South,” Akhil Ramesh, a senior fellow at the Hawaii-based Pacific …

Eng. Saleem Al-Batayneh Arab countries have topped global indicators in financial and political corruption, lack of transparency, and absence of freedoms! They have also ranked at the bottom in indicators of the collapse of education, healthcare, and social affairs systems. On May 19, 2022, the Global Misery Index …

On 16 August, the United Nations Security Council met to discuss the situation in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. Armenia had requested the meeting with a hope that the world body would adopt a resolution or issue a statement aimed at exerting pressure on Azerbaijan. This has been …

How will the world look in 2050? The truth is unknown to all. However, intuitively, it could be assumed that the upcoming transformation of finance and technologies will be unprecedented. It will definitely have an impact on all areas of economic activity. The development of global Yin-markets and …

On July 28th, 2023, UN secretary general Antonio Guterres issued a clear warning on the prevailing climate concern. Guterres said, “The era of global warming has ended. The era of global boiling has arrived. The air is unbreathable, the heat is unbearable, and the level of fossil fuel …

“Three things are required for war: money, money, and money again,” proclaimed Marshal Gian-Giacopo Trivulzio (1448 – 1518) in response to Louis XII’s inquiry about the necessary preparations for conquering the Duchy of Milan. These words have since gained universal recognition. Wars historically served as instruments of political …

The idea of an alternative multilateral economic organisation like BRICS came from a belief in the late 2000s that the Bretton Woods Institutions were unable to cope with the scale and complexity of the post-Cold War geoeconomic landscape that had seen the rise of new economic centres. Western-led …