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Promise of economic opportunities, genuine partnerships, a more inclusive world order COMMENT | CHRISTOPHER BURKE | The visit by President Ebrahim Raisi to Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe earlier this month represented a significant milestone in Iran’s flourishing engagement with Sub-Saharan Africa. The diplomatic mission also underscored the continent’s growing agency in …

  COMMENT | CHRIS PATTEN |  In December 2003, roughly nine months into the Iraq War that would forever define his legacy, then-US President George W. Bush was asked whether his administration’s policies complied with international law. “I don’t know what you’re talking about by international law. I better consult …

While Ukraine’s accession to NATO would be bad news for Putin, it could yield benefits for Russia’s citizens COMMENT | KONSTANTIN SONIN |  The recent NATO summit in Vilnius concluded with a pledge to admit Ukraine once its war with Russia ends. While the benefits of Ukraine’s accession to the alliance …

It is clear there is not much solidarity in these countries with Ukraine’s goal of decisively ending Russia’s colonial influence COMMENT | GALYNA PISKORSKA | I was running from my home in Kyiv as the Russian army occupied Bucha, Gostomel and Irpin in the early stages of its invasion of Ukraine …

COMMENT | JOSEP BORRELL FONTELLES |On 17 July, nearly one year after it was signed in Istanbul, Russia decided to not renew the Black Sea Grain Initiative (BSGI) that allows Ukraine to export agricultural goods to global markets. As underlined by the Secretary General of the UN, this initiative has …

Every organization needs a Digital Risk and Intelligence (DR&I) Strategy plus Threat Intelligence Monitoring Software to alert users on potential threats COMMENT | SAMUEL MUGABI | A digital footprint is the data trail you leave behind while on the internet. This includes your search history, downloads, likes, comments and virtually …

COMMENT | NOURIEL ROUBINI | My current visit to Israel has coincided with a period of unprecedented political turmoil. A radical right-wing government’s package of legislation to disempower the judiciary has started to be adopted, leading many to worry that this great country’s robust liberal democracy is being eroded. Since Israel …

Now the party appears to be over and the cleaning up of the financing models must start COMMENT | JOSEPH WERE | The National Association of Broadcasters, media managers and experts, the ministries of Finance and that of ICT and National Guidance, are debating whether the government should give its advertising …

Determining how to achieve adequate food for all is the right of citizens and the duty of governments COMMENT | NORA MCKEON | When I was a child, my father, who had witnessed the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, told me how common ground was sought around shared …

Unchecked financial blacklisting, fueled by regulatory zeal, is neither reasonable nor prudent COMMENT | ROBERT SKIDELSKY | Nigel Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and the driving force behind the campaign for the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union, recently caused an uproar when he revealed …