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,...
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...
The Pentagon’s extraordinary use of polygraph tests on senior military personnel is not merely a hunt for leakers; it is a warning that loyalty to the president may increasingly matter more than loyalty to the institution, accelerating the ultimate American...
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....
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.”...
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...
China is heavily utilizing its economic tools and infrastructure financing to build deep strategic influence in Africa, integrating the continent’s nations into its Belt and Road Initiative. This economic and logistical presence represents a key means for China to expand...
Perhaps we all neglected to read the footnotes. When Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey unveiled their grand architecture of collective defense in Mecca, the language was magnificent: fraternity, deterrence, solidarity, common security. An attack on one, the world was told,...
There is a particularly dark irony, at least from our perspective, in seeing the port of Mocha change hands again. This is the town that gave the world its coffee, where ancient Yemeni beans used to be loaded onto Ottoman...
By: Pham Phan Long On paper, the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) mechanism is a success. Since its launch in 2016, trade between China and Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam has risen sharply, reaching a record $500.9 billion in 2025 – 150...
The New Delhi Declaration, adopted unanimously at the 18th BRICS Summit on September 12, will be read mostly through a geopolitical lens: Gaza, Security Council reform, sanctions, the drift toward a multipolar order. That reading isn’t wrong. It just misses...
NEW DELHI — The 18th BRICS summit opened on September 12 with the bloc taking its most concrete step yet toward loosening the grip of the US dollar, adopting a 45-page New Delhi Declaration on the first day and endorsing...
Human rights organizations used the opening week of the UN Human Rights Council’s 63rd session to press delegates on a conflict they say has been deliberately set aside, calling for an independent investigation into chemical weapons allegations in Sudan and...
What does it mean to say we are in a ‘polycrisis’? Under an increasingly undemocratic capitalism, the countries of the rich world all confront a similar bundle of crises that have sprung up more or less unnoticed. Underlying them is...
Twenty-five years of invasions and unconditional support for Israel have deepened the grievances behind 9/11 and left America less secure Marco Carnelos is a former Italian diplomat. He has been assigned to Somalia, Australia and the United Nations. He served in...
Photo: Creative Commons The 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon has resulted in a catalogue of self-inflicted disasters for the US. It was exploited by the worst elements of our political system to create a surveillance society, increase...
Nuclear power is growing in popularity once again as governments worldwide look to diversify their energy mix and reduce reliance on fossil fuels. Several countries are now looking to develop or expand their nuclear energy capacity over the coming decades....
The People’s Republic of China achieved a historic and unprecedented participation in the second edition of the El Alamein International Aerospace Exhibition (EIAS 2026), which was held at El Alamein International Airport from September 8 to 10, 2026. The Chinese...
Heat pumps are becoming an increasingly popular alternative to gas-powered central heating systems and are increasingly being used in new construction, often driven by government incentives. A heat pump uses technology similar to that found in a refrigerator or an...
The Iran-aligned Houthis have launched a rapid offensive along Yemen’s coast, gaining control over key areas that threaten a crucial Middle East waterway, specifically the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. This situation poses a significant challenge for U.S. President Donald Trump, as...
The philosophical concept of human dignity is the foundation of today’s Western civilization—everything is subordinate to it. Its loss would mean a return to a new Thirty Years’ War. By Peter Hanseler via ForumGeopolitica.com Friedrich Merz does not seem to understand the...
The BRICS group of nations adopted a joint declaration on Saturday, showing “deep concern” about the Middle East war. They called for maximum restraint and emphasized the need for a “multilateral approach” that respects different national views. This declaration was...
Good things are happening! Conservationists score two teaspoons of triumph, workers pour a tall glass of solidarity, attorneys general assemble for vital healthcare, and buffalo regain their home on the range. You Love To See It is a benefit of a...
As artificial intelligence, digital platforms and rapidly evolving technologies reshape the way societies receive and share information, strategic communication is becoming an increasingly important pillar of diplomacy, governance and national resilience. This was the focus of a high-level panel discussion held...
GAZA/ PNN/ The death toll from Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip has risen to 73,783 Palestinians, with 174,738 others wounded since Oct. 7, 2023, according to Palestinian medical sources. The sources said Gaza hospitals received the bodies of 10 Palestinians killed...
This week, after launching an unprecedented series of strikes on Saudi Arabia, the Houthis embarked on a sweeping offensive in Yemen, seizing large swathes of territory along the Red Sea coast. These rapid changes have pushed Yemen’s war back into...
The Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2026 National Research Foundation (NRF) Awards went to two extraordinary and veteran scholars, Professor Jonathan Jansen and Professor Helen Rees. This accolade is awarded to individuals considered to have made extraordinary contributions of international standard...
The National Security Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the FBI rarely sign the same document. On September 8 they jointly named six Chinese firms, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI, for industrial-scale distillation of American...
The 2026 National Research Foundation (https://www.nrf.ac.za/) (NRF) Awards honoured South Africa’s top researchers and scientists at a prestigious ceremony held on Thursday, 3 September 2026, at the Boardwalk Hotel and Casino in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape. This year’s event was held...
As India hosts the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, its policy of multi-alignment is under crucial scrutiny: whether New Delhi can achieve a balance between strategic autonomy and a real commitment to the Global South, or whether BRICS is...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip / PNN / Gaza’s chambers of commerce, industry and agriculture held a dialogue Thursday titled “In Gaza, an Economy Struggles to Survive,” bringing together representatives of international organisations, the private sector and local institutions to discuss the...
A phrase has been circulating in Pakistani official messaging this year: the UAE relationship is moving “from enduring brotherhood to strategic partnership.” It is marketed as an upgrade. Look at the calendar and it reads more like triage. This is...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip /PNN - Report by Rasha Ahmad - In Gaza, where years of conflict and destruction have disrupted nearly every aspect of daily life, a garden designer is turning his talent into an effort to create moments of...
HEBRON / PNN / Farmers in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, are facing increasingly difficult agricultural and economic conditions amid settler attacks, restrictions on access to farmland, water shortages, rising production costs and limited marketing opportunities for local...
For decades, Africa’s mineral endowment has been presented as the foundation of its future prosperity. But speakers at the Africa Mindset Reset Forum challenged that assumption, arguing that the continent’s greatest opportunity may lie not beneath the ground, but in...
As UN Secretary-General António Guterres winds up his decade-long period in office, it is time to assess his influence and impact on Africa. How did he see the continent and its place in the jigsaw of nationalities and interests that...
For much of modern history, the Arctic was protected by geography. Thick ice, brutal weather and distance kept it away from the busy arteries of global trade. That protection is fading. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s visit to...
Twenty-five years on, it’s worth asking not what happened on September 11, 2001, but what Washington decided it meant — and whether those conclusions were the right ones. The attacks themselves were a genuine trauma and a genuine crime. But...
Brent is sitting a touch above $104 this morning, down slightly from yesterday's surge. The Strait of Hormuz, which used to move something like a fifth of the world's oil and LNG before the war, has been effectively shut since...
After more than a decade of war, the Houthis have achieved what a superpower-backed coalition spent ten years and tens of billions of dollars trying to prevent. They now sit astride the Bab al-Mandeb strait, one of the world’s critical...
The White House is considering using the Defense Production Act to add U.S. refining capacity, with American refineries already running at 98% capacity and diesel prices above $6 per gallon for the first time. The proposal was discussed during President...
The United States is trying to build up its energy storage capacities at a rapid scale. At the same time, it is trying to wean itself off of Chinese battery tech. In many ways, these two goals are in direct...
With the heightening of the current geopolitics, many African governments have increasingly welcomed economic, diplomatic, and security ties with Russia. And noticeably, Russia’s engagements in Africa rely on irregular means to expand its influence—reliance on military offerings has often become...
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