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Turkish policy in Africa is a good example of how to develop sound interstate cooperation with the countries of the continent from scratch within a short period of time One can hardly fail to notice Ankara’s opening policy to Africa, despite its relative novelty, primarily ...
Global Water Situation One of the Millennium Development Goals drawn up by the WHO (World health Organization) is to halve the percentage of people without access to drinkable water. Since the end of 2011, 89% of the world population uses safe source of drinkable water, while 55% has water directly into their home. Despite this important result: The lack of safe water sources causes tens of thousands of deaths every day, especially children. 768 million people (source: UNICEF) are still without access...
In the past 25 years, Africa has made great strides towards development and peace, but conflict is still present in many places on the continent REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya Dmitry Borisov: A Difficult Peace: The UN and the Challenges of Modern Peacekeeping To avoid relapse into ...
Recent events surrounding the International Criminal Court are indicative of broader issues and trends, including the acrimonious relationship between the ICC and Africa, as well as between the institution and the international community at large. Heavily criticized by many and praised by few, the ICC finds itself at a turning point. Will it reinvent itself or fade away? For the Hague-based International Criminal ...
... IFRI report, February 2016 A commentary on “L’endiguement renforcé: les politiques de sécurité de la France et des États-Unis en Afrique” IFRI report , February 2016. One of the most recent trends in African affairs has been the growing security cooperation between France and the United States, termed by IFRI as “ reinforced containment ”. A logical response to the many security challenges on the continent, the French-US approach may be ...
On April 25, 2016, was held by the UN Security Council an open debate on the theme “Peace consolidation in West Africa: piracy and armed robbery at sea in the Gulf of Guinea.” During the debate, the China’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Liu Jieyi stated that the Gulf of Guinea has fallen victim to frequent incidents of piracy and armed ...
Going South? While Russia and the Middle East have remained champions in gas and oil production for decades, the USA is looking for new greenfield projects and partnerships with countries not facing existing political constraints: it is the African market that lies within closer geographical proximity to American consumers what makes imports from that region less costly and time-consuming. It is also important to note that both Russia and the Middle East have marginal trade relations with ...
... since the early 1990s. In 2006, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat took an oath of allegiance to al-Qaeda, using its brand to carry out terrorist activities. The Arab Spring served as an additional catalyst for terrorist activities in North Africa. The most tragic part of the Arab Spring was probably the civil war in Libya, which even after the Western-backed toppling of Muammar Gaddafi is still unable to find political equilibrium within the country, and which is mired in local conflict ...
A small East African nation of 876,000 people, of negligible resource wealth, and little to no political drama, Djibouti is rare to grab headlines. On November 26th 2015, however, when the People’s Republic of China (PRC) announced that its first oversees military ...
During Barack Obama’s first presidential term, Africa was not among the U.S. foreign policy priorities. In spite of his African roots, America’s first black president, contrary to expectations, focused attention not on Africa but on tackling such problems as the U.S. economy, Iraq, Afghanistan ...
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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