By Kester Kenn Klomegah | MOSCOW | 10 November 2025 (IDN) — Women’s empowerment was uniquely exemplified by voting for Samia Suluhu Hassan as the new president of the United Republic of Tanzania late October 2025, but that election has generated distressing reports. Samia Hassan was inaugurated as Tanzania’s first female president in March 2021, […]
Calls for reparations for colonial land dispossession in Africa
By Busani Bafana | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 10 Nov. 2025 (IDN) – Former colonial powers must provide reparations to atone for land dispossession, a historical injustice that continues to constrain Africa’s social and economic development, a policy conference heard. Mzwanele Nyhontso, Minister of Land Reform and Rural Development, Republic of South Africa the issue of […]
Has Malaysia Surrendered To America’s “Gangster” Diplomacy?
By Kalinga Seneviratne BANGKOK | 11 November 2025 (IDN) — After the United States President Donald Trump barged into the ASEAN Summit with the Malaysian leader Anwar Ibrahim providing him with Malay dancing music at Kuala Lumpur airport, a trade deal signed between the two countries on the sidelines of the Summit on October 29th […]
Situation Report Horn of Africa: El Fasher survivors cut off from communication
Situation in Sudan (per 10 November) Eyewitnesses and survivors have reported on an estimated 50,000 people trapped in El Fasher, North Darfur, by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) across five locations, being cut off from communication as the RSF have captured starlink devices and mobile phones. The escapees have reported on extensive raids, and kidnapping […]
Is a Critical Pillar of the Global Nuclear Arms Control Architecture About to Crumble?
By Tariq Rauf* VIENNA | 10 November 2025 (IDN) — On 26 September 1996, on the floor of the United Nations General Assembly, at the signing ceremony for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), then-US President William J. Clinton declared the treaty as “the longest-sought, hardest fought prize in arms control history.” He exaggerated; in […]
UN80 Initiative – Between Renewal and Regression
By Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury The following are extensive excerpts from the address by the former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the United Nations, Ambassador Chowdhury — who founded the Global Movement for the Culture of Peace (GMCoP) — at the United Nations Asia Network for Diversity and Inclusion (UN-ANDI) on the occasion of the […]
Kenya’s Liberal Economy Attracting Russian and Foreign Investors
By Kester Kenn Klomegah* MOSCOW | 9 November 2025 (IDN) — Over the years, Kenya and Russia have enjoyed cordial and warm bilateral relations. Russia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus remain key to Kenya’s development agenda, aligning with the country’s economic blueprint, Vision 2030, and the Fourth Medium Term Plan (MTP IV) 2023–2027, under the broad economic philosophy of […]
Doha Summit Ends With Call To Turn Social Pledges Into Action
By UN News DOHA, Qatar | 7 November 2025 (IDN) — Speaking at the closing press conference, UN General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock said the Summit marked a “deliberate shift” from identifying gaps to acting on proven solutions. “Copenhagen taught us 30 years ago that social development and inclusion are essential for strong societies,” she said. “We […]
Sudan’s Civil War Ravages the Core of Our Humanity
By Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 6 November 2025 (IDN) — The Sudanese civil war is one of the greatest tragedies we are witnessing today. The international community is disgraceful for sitting on its hands, watching with indifference this ongoing humanitarian catastrophe. Sudan’s civil war erupted in April 2023, and so far, several rounds of […]
Situation Report Horn of Africa: Walid hearing starts in the Netherlands
Situation in Sudan (per 6 November) Mass killings and systemic body removal by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in El Fasher, North Darfur, have been reported by The Humanitarian Research Lab of the Yale School of Public Health. The report states that it is difficult to estimate the overall scale and exact amount of bodies. […]