Since the Cold War, competition between foreign powers for influence in Africa has spurred a great debate. With a focus on ...

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The old world is dying, and the new one is struggling to be born. Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist philosopher and political theorist, famously wrote in his Prison Notebooks, “The old world is ...

The leader of the rebel alliance that has seized swathes of east Congo told Reuters on Thursday that the group was not bound ...

It’s 1962. Cold War tensions bristle between Washington and Moscow. Forced to enlist by the United States military, a young physician reluctantly cuts short his medical residency at New York’s ...

African leaders have announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi, who were sent to ...

The summit also discussed efforts to end the war in Ukraine, with President Volodymyr Zelensky expected in South Africa next month. “We’ve been encouraging both Ukraine and Russia to find a ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa ... U.S. leader has cast as anti-American — a reference to South Africa launching a case at the top U.N. court accusing U.S. ally Israel of genocide in the war in ...

Frightened by the prospect of US security disengagement and three years of Moscow's war against Ukraine, European countries are debating reinstating compulsory military service to boost their defences ...

Thank you for following our updates on the war in Ukraine today ... the force would be taken at a political level, by government leaders. Army chiefs or their representatives from nearly all ...

East African leaders and Saudi royals are among those profiting off a lucrative, deadly trade in domestic workers. By Abdi Latif Dahir and Justin Scheck Photographs by Kiana Hayeri Abdi Latif ...

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