Opinion

29 Jul 2021 By Toyin Falola Postcolonial conversations around African politics have proven that current political issues and trends in Africa are topics of continental and transnational discourse. Several political scientists have researched the causes and effects of political infractions, which are the basis for economic and cultural retardation in many African countries. The economists […]

25 Jul 2021 By Sossi Tatikyan What was posed as a border demarcation issue further threatens regional stability in the South Caucasus. The current context of mounting military action is not sustainable; the process must revert back to international norms. But first, it is necessary to lay out where we stand today with a chronology of […]

24 July 2021 By Al Waght News   Several thousand years after the Abrahamic religions’ story about the Nile River, Israelites, and Egypt, the three are meeting each other again in North Africa.  An artery to Egypt, the Nile is constituted of the two Blue Nile and White Nile rivers. Blue Nile is a rich […]

24 July 2021 By NEVILLE TELLER    The long-running dispute is between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia. It all revolves around the waters of the Nile. FISHERMEN WORK on the Nile River on the outskirts of Cairo last summer. (photo credit: MOHAMED ABD EL GHANY/ REUTERS)   On July 8, a disagreement between three African nations that has […]

July 6, 2021 By Mujib Dada-Qadri What astonishes me most about secession and self-determination as controversial topics is the fact that virtually all countries of the world have threats or agitations for secession; it doesn’t matter whether the country is economically prosperous or not. The fundamental reason why it remains one of the most controversial […]