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 […]
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 […]
UPDATE: Results President Buhari (APC party) was declared the winner of the election by Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission, with 15 million votes compared to his rival Atiku Abubakar’s (PDP party) 11 million votes. The […]
At last, the end has come for the long international legal dispute over the name of the country that lies north of Greece and south of Serbia. It is now the Republic of North Macedonia […]
What is UXO? UXO is an acronym for Unexploded Ordnance, i.e. weapons that were deployed during a war which have not detonated. Where is Laos? Laos is in South East Asia, west of and inland […]
What is the current situation in Libya? The North African country has been locked in a state of violence since 2011 when a popular uprising ended with the overthrow and death of former president Muammar Gaddafi. […]
What is new in New Caledonia? There was a referendum on Sunday 4 November in New Caledonia, a Pacific island territory that is under French sovereignty. The question was whether it should become an independent […]
