Africa

By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research What constitutes a crisis worthy of global attention? When a regional bank in the United States falls victim to the inversion of the yield curve (i.e., when short-term bond interest rates become higher than long-term rates), the Earth nearly stops spinning. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) […]

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As higher interest rates and inflation hit developing countries, the IMF is trying to use bailout terms to sideline Beijing. 

"Fool me once, shame on thee. Fool me twice, shame on me." The Global Soutn has wised up in the wake of the war in Iraq.

The EU and US are trying to replace Russian gas and push China out of the resource-rich African nation. 

How climate change reveals a crisis of international governance.

US undersecretary of state Victoria Nuland says to remain calm.

Europe is desperate for North African energy, and yet the West threatens to alienate countries there with its demands they cut ties with Russia.

The so-called Collective West and the rest of the world have a yawning gap in how they view the war in Ukraine.

As Somalia struggled to hold its first real national elections since the country collapsed in 1991, the US and its allies pushed separatism and undermined democracy so as to militarily dominate the country and plunder its resources. An armed conflict is underway between secessionists and unionists in the city of Lasanod, where Somaliland state separatist forces have fired on civilians, reportedly killing more than 82 people. Somali unionists have now taken up arms to defend themselves, and issued a declaration […]

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Burkina Faso has officially cut ties with France and, like many African nations, has aligned with Russia as global power dynamics shift away from the Western sphere.

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