On 25 July 2019 the United States Attorney General William Barr, announced that he would instruct the US Bureau of Prisons to start preparations for the execution of five people who have been found guilty […]
After a high profile selection process, Christine Lagarde, a French lawyer, politician and economist, is preparing to step down as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to take the post of President of […]
World leaders should have all more or less arrived at the G20 Summit in Osaka Japan. Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Premier tweeted “Wheels up for Osaka, Japan with a busy few days ahead at the […]
June 20th is World Refugee Day. The day we stop to recognise the huge number of displaced human beings living in the world. ‘The yearly Global Trends report found that 70.8 million children, women and men were […]
The last few months have seen a period of relatively peaceful protest in North African countries Algeria and Sudan following the downfall of autocratic leaders Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Omar al-Bashir who had ruled for twenty […]
Israel hit the news earlier this month for its hosting of the Eurovision Song Contest, which showcased one face of the country. But even more recently, its politics has become a festival of high drama […]
In yesterday’s Financial Times, Gideon Rachman, explains and defines the reason for the ongoing trade war between two of the world’s global powers, China and the United States of America. Presidents Donald Trump and Xi […]
South Africa had a general election on Wednesday 8 May. The ‘New South Africa’ is now 25 years old. The 2019 vote was the sixth fully democratic election in the country, following the historic 1994 […]
Spain’s voters went to the polls on Sunday 28 April. Despite the fact that this was the third general election in four years, people seemed to be interested in this election. Turnout (the proportion of […]
Elections have been coming in thick and fast in several countries. We have written about Nigeria, Senegal and Slovakia in other articles on the site but there have been several other important elections around the […]
