Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
The Middle East needs alternative export routes for liquefied natural gas that bypass the Strait of Hormuz, Oman’s Minister of Energy and Minerals said at Gastech today. LNG exports from the Persian Gulf have collapsed since the start of the...
Register of British Slave Traders reveals how deeply the trafficking of Africans was embedded in the country’s politics, economy, institutions and culture Two obstacles have prevented us from appreciating the significance of the slave trade in British history. The first arose...
A delegate walking past a billboard at the Africa Food Systems Forum at Kigali Convention Centre in Rwanda's capital. Credit: Farai Shawn Matiashe/IPS By Farai Shawn Matiashe KIGALI, Sep 14 2026 (IPS) When the African continent experiences erratic rains, crops fail, leaving millions...
Run by a social enterprise, the six shops operate from shipping containers across Johannesburg’s Alexandra township and sell food and household goods by weight in small, affordable amounts Every morning, on her way to the laundry shop she runs in Johannesburg’s...
Thousands of people gathered in western Uganda on Saturday to pay their final respects to King Oyo. Oyo died last month at the age of 34, unmarried and without an official heir. Now a fight is underway over who will...
Brent crude hit $108 per barrel earlier today, following the latest escalation in the Middle East, before retreating to $107.22 per barrel at the time of writing. West Texas Intermediate was trading at $102.66 per barrel. The surge follows the...
BRICS is no longer just a diplomatic club for emerging economies. Its 11 members represent approximately 49.5% of the world’s population, 40% of global GDP, and 26% of global trade. Meanwhile, India’s economy continues to grow at a rapid pace....
This was the week that AI safety hit the big time. A 27-year-old AI researcher named Jacob Coxon quit his job at Anthropic, declaring that OpenAI and Anthropic are racing to create technology that could destroy the human race: Other...
A report that Iran obtained satellite imagery of a U.S. military base in Jordan from Chinese entities before a deadly attack has raised questions about the extent of China’s ties with Tehran and whether Chinese commercial or other entities are...
Three years of research has uncovered 13,000 people who invested in Britain’s trafficking of enslaved Africans The Register of British Slave Traders is the product of three years of research by a team of historians into all known investors in Britain’s...
In August 2026, the Ethiopian government declared Sam Fabrizi, the Italian ambassador, persona non grata. Rome chose to remain silent. This incident is not merely a diplomatic incident, but a striking example of the new balance of power between Africa...
For most of modern history, the household was a bundle. Under one roof, families pooled rent and meals, raised children, cared for parents, kept each other company and insured one another against bad luck. Nobody itemized it, and national accounts...
As the United States has struggled to secure its four primary objectives in the Iran War — achieving regime change, dismantling long-range ballistic missiles, eliminating nuclear enrichment, and halting Tehran’s support for regional proxies — U.S. officials have rolled out...
On August 27, Reps. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) and Bill Keating (D-Mass.) introduced the SRBIJA Act , which would impose sanctions and visa restrictions on “malign actors” accused of undermining democracy, the rule of law, human rights, and stability in the...
Only a few days ago, Moldova’s ambassador to the U.S. said it was likely “ not an accident ” that a Russian jet-powered drone flew across his country’s territory while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s plane was preparing to depart from...
Decades after attaining political independence, African countries have teamed up and are fiercely advocating for reparations. Historical records show that Africa endured several years of slavery and economic exploitation. Today, Africa becomes the geographical region for an increasingly growing geopolitical...
By: Ainur Rohmah Photo from tribun-medan.com In Indonesia under President Prabowo Subianto, political power and private wealth are finding a new point of convergence. Few businessmen illustrate that shift more clearly than Andi Syamsuddin Arsyad, known as Haji Isam, a former truck...
Oil prices initially jumped by over 3% in early Asian trade on Monday as fears of a major and extended supply disruption were stoked by continued attacks in the Middle East and the postponement of a crunch meeting between Gulf...
Israel has been building settlements in the occupied West Bank for decades. But Britain’s new ban on the import of settlement goods comes in a response to a major escalation in construction over the past four years, which an International...
Sometimes deciding how to frame these weekend updates can be a challenge. There are usually a number of important issues that need discussing each week, and choosing the ones to highlight and the balance of time to spend on each...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sep 14 2026 (IPS) Most free trade advocates falsely claim that comparative advantage ensures developmental gains from trade liberalisation. Mainstream trade theory does not promise that partial trade liberalisation guarantees optimal international specialisation. Jomo Kwame Sundaram Specialisation? Developing...
In 2026, a small cottage industry of British commentators started asking whether the UK needs its own version of Germany’s Brandmauer — a cross-party pact to keep Reform UK out of power the way Berlin’s mainstream parties supposedly keep out...
Rachel Law was making her usual stop at her neighbourhood Starbucks with her three dogs on an August afternoon when officers from the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) approached her. Rachel Law’s dog, Bao Bao, at the Agriculture, Fisheries and...
Oil prices hit nearly $110 per barrel on Thursday for the first time since July, with no end in sight for the Middle East conflict. The IRGC announced on Wednesday that it had attacked and heavily damaged eight oil tankers...
A chokepoint is not a wall. It is a tollbooth — expensive, annoying, survivable — and the traffic always finds another way around. That is the single lesson I would press on anyone in Washington who believes the dollar can...
China can leverage its membership in the BRICS group and its direct investments in Africa as complementary tools to build growing economic influence that gradually translates into sustainable political, security, and strategic influence. Although Beijing consistently emphasizes that its partnerships...
South Korea and Indonesia this year have been working on elevating their relationship. Both countries are vulnerable to the changing geopolitical currents of our times. From a security perspective their situations are different: Korea has long maintained a close treaty...
This week’s oil price surge sharply raised the odds of a Fed interest rate hike next week and re-launched the recession conversation, for the first time since the early weeks of the Iran war. The price spike this week saw...
The United States’ existing dams could produce an additional 15.2 terawatt-hours of electricity per year, enough to power more than 1.4 million homes across the country. A new study from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory found that...
The 18th summit of BRICS , a grouping with ten members including Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, and South Africa, concluded in New Delhi with a leaders declaration — a clear success for an event that brought together a deeply...
On February 1st, the G7’s price cap on Russian crude oil quietly reset itself to $44.10 a barrel — down from $47.60, and a long way from the $60 ceiling the coalition set with great fanfare back in December 2022....
Jensen Huang’s declaration that “AGI has arrived” is less a scientific verdict than a compressed statement about infrastructure, economics and momentum. His evidence is OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, reportedly trained on more than 100,000 Nvidia Grace Blackwell NVL72 systems, followed by...
Construction on a trade corridor seen as the lynchpin of the Armenian-Azerbaijani peace deal is facing a delay, according to a top Azerbaijani official. The provisional peace agreement was signed in Washington in August 2025. At that time, the Trump...
New data on France, Europe and China reveals a striking story. Jason Hickel is a Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and...
Egypt can leverage the US-China rivalry and its strategic partnership with Beijing to bolster its national security and its position as a global logistics hub through several strategic avenues: 1) Enhancing its status as a global logistics and trade center,...
Samsung might be the most unusual company on earth because it is difficult to decide what kind of company it actually is. To most consumers, Samsung means smartphones, televisions, refrigerators. Yet the name also appears on apartment towers, cargo ships,...
The United Kingdom has dramatically increased its wind energy capacity over the last decade, producing record levels of wind power in 2025. With several more projects in the pipeline, wind power is expected to contribute a significant share of the...
Nissan Maskil, PhD, is the CEO and co-founder of Qarakal Quantum, established in 2024. Nissan brings 40 years of national technology program experience to Qarakal Quantum, where they’re working to enable researchers and enterprises to run larger and more meaningful...
The Global Africa Business Initiative (GABI) was set up five years ago to put Africans and African interests at the heart of all discussions about the continent. The take-up has been remarkable. F ive years ago, the Global Africa Business Initiative...
Big Tech keeps promising a reset. What they’re actually doing is much worse. All that and more in Lever Weekly , a recap of our work from the past week. If you only read one email from us all week, this...
A decade of financial sanctions barely dented China’s discounted-Iranian-oil trade. Physical strikes on the tankers themselves might close it within months — because Beijing has a legal playbook for ignoring a Treasury designation, and none for re-floating a struck ship....
When pesticide proved no match for the insect, desperate Phyllis Nvuda tried a new way to save her infested orchard For two decades, Phyllis Nduva, 72, has grown mangoes and citrus in Wote, a town in Kenya’s eastern Makueni County. In...
Why ecosystem diffusion may matter as much as frontier supremacy On 3 September, two announcements offered different views of AI power. OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, and company president Greg Brockman closed the briefing by declaring, “Welcome to the AGI era.”...
The AfD’s victory in Saxony-Anhalt reflects Europe’s rightward drift, driven predominantly by domestic causes. Yet the West, ironically glossing over its own playbook and turning a blind eye to its own 20th-century interference in other states’ affairs, predictably pins the...
Today, Sunday, Sweden is holding a general election, but like most of Europe this once liberal nation has moved very far to the right Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael...
US hegemony in Western Asia deteriorating further Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. As an independent contractor, he has provided training for...
General Secretary and President To Lam’s official visit to France on September 10, 2026, was significant not simply because it produced a new round of agreements between Hanoi and Paris, but because it illustrated how Vietnam is adapting its foreign...
The race to become the next UN Secretary-General is in full swing, but Africa does not have a credible candidate. What is behind this lack of motivation? In an age when wars rage with impunity, great powers ignore international law, and...
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