Why Ghana’s Election Matters Across Africa

By Azu Ishiekwene The writer is Editor-In-Chief of LEADERSHIP and author of the new book Writing for Media and Monetising It. ABUJA, Nigeria | 12 December 2024 (IDN) — The news from Ghana was not how John Dramani Mahama’s opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), defeated Nana Akufo-Addo’s ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP). The […]

Colombia: Women-Led Fish Farming Is Offering an Alternative to Drug Crops

By Iñigo Alexander* BOGOTÁ, Colombia | 11 December 2024 (IDN) — The Amazon rainforest in southern Colombia stretches lush and green across the horizon, but beneath its dense canopy lies a shifting reality. The southern province of Putumayo—a remote region bordering Ecuador, at the edge of the country’s Amazon—has long been dominated by coca plantations […]

Sandbagging Trump: Obstacles to a Ukraine Settlement

Manages to Insult Trump After Meeting (After Demanding the Meeting!) By Stephen Bryen* This article was issued by Weapons and Strategy and is being republished with their permission. WASHINGTON, D.C. | 10 December 2024 (IDN) — President Donald Trump reluctantly met with Volodymyr Zelensky and Emanuel Macron in Paris to discuss the way forward in Ukraine. […]

China Completes 3,000-Kilometre Desert Green Belt

By Niu Yuhan* LONDON | 10 December 2024 (IDN) — Workers have planted the final 100 metres of trees along the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert, completing a 3,046-kilometre “green belt” encircling China’s largest desert, according to Xinhua. The Taklamakan Desert, covering an area of 337,600 square kilometres—roughly the size of Finland—is the second-largest […]

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