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Why won’t Putin attend G20? Will Xi?
by Saeed Naqvi: IT WAS known that president Vladimir Putin will not attend the G20, but will Xi Jinping attend? Let me take up Putin first: Putin did not attendReadMore
Clashing anniversaries in South Africa
IN THE 1980s millions of people were organised into militant trade unions and community organisations across South Africa. At the time it was argued that South Africa, along with HaitiReadMore
Private military cos continue to expand in Africa
The recent coup in Niger threatens to unleash more private military and security companies on a continent where they have become steadily more powerful in recent decades, writes John PReadMore
Deeds matter more than promises for Lanka future
Jehan Perera: THE situation in Sri Lanka, particularly with regard to the economy and politics, can be described as stable but stagnant. The economy is stable in that it hasReadMore
Africa for Africans
The animosities toward the French abroad among Nigeriens have been widely reported. But history is only part of the story, and not the largest part. Those who led the coupReadMore
August 15 plotters wanted to turn Bangladesh into neo-Pakistan
What Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib could have never imagined that had happened on August 15, 1975 as some Bangalee military officers brutally assassinated him along with family members on his ownReadMore
Hype, hope and helplessness
by Patrick Bond: BEFORE the August 22–24 summit in Johannesburg raised expectations for a new counterbalancing force in global politics — and struck fear into many Western elites’ hearts andReadMore
World would be better off without NATO
Eve Ottenberg IF YOU believed the two central tenets of western dogma and propaganda about the Ukraine war, namely that Russia’s invasion was unprovoked and that Moscow has imperial ambitionsReadMore
