By Jaya Ramachandran GENEVA | 17 October 2025 (IDN) — A group of United Nations human rights experts has called on Germany to stop criminalising and using police violence against pro-Palestinian activists, warning that Berlin’s actions risk undermining fundamental democratic freedoms. In a strongly worded statement, the five independent experts said they were “alarmed by […]
Of Trump, Peace Deals and the Day After
By Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Editor-In-Chief of LEADERSHIP and the author of the new book Writing for Media and Monetising It. ABUJA, Nigeria | 16 October 2025 (IDN) — U.S. President Donald Trump may be getting ahead of himself with the encouraging signs that, following the ceasefire in Gaza, the world might have […]
Would Trump Use Nuclear Weapons?
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 14 October 2025 (IDN) — I’m just out of the cinema having seen Kathryn Bigelow’s masterful film, A House of Dynamite, about a nuclear missile found on radar to be heading towards America. The film ends with the destruction of Chicago, and the U.S. president is unsure what to […]
Germany Redefines Development Cooperation with the Global South
A Legacy of Nobel Peace Laureate Willy Brandt By Ramesh Jaura This article was first published on https://rjaura.substack.com BERLIN | 14 October 2025 (IDN) — More than forty years ago, former German Chancellor Willy Brandt—winner of the 1971 Nobel Peace Prize—warned that prosperity in the North and hardship in the South were two sides of […]
Nigeria Trading Across the Continent Under African Diaspora’s Leadership
By Kester Kenn Klomegah* MOSCOW | 11 October 2025 (IDN) — In this insightful interview, Professor Jude Osakwe, Continental Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Organization (NIDO) Africa, highlights the rapidly shifting global trade landscape and the renewed focus on intra-African trade. This necessitates convening the Regional Trade Conference — ‘Made-in-Nigeria’ — in Dakar, Senegal, from […]
They Make a Desert and Call it Peace
By James E. Jennings* ATLANTA, USA | 10 October 2025 (IDN) — While the world celebrates Peace in Gaza, people in Tel Aviv and Gaza are rubbing their eyes as if waking from a dream. Relief is palpable among the Palestinians because their daily haunting fear of dying at any minute over the past 24 […]
Urgent Next Steps for Palestine at the UN
By Nicolas J. S. Davies* NEW YORK | 9 October 2025 (IDN) — As US President Donald Trump surely intended, his “20-point Gaza plan” succeeded in upstaging calls by many other world leaders at the UN General Assembly for concrete, coordinated UN-led measures to force Israel to end its criminal genocide in Gaza and the […]
Central Asia: Russia Reassures, China Builds, The West Scrutinises
This article was first published on https://rjaura.substack.com By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN | 9 October 2025 (IDN) — Phones rang in Central Asian capitals in mid-August, mere hours after Vladimir Putin finished an unusual three-hour summit with Donald Trump in Anchorage. Putin personally phoned each of the five regional leaders. It was an act of respect […]
What About Some Israeli Tolerance?
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 8 October 2025 (IDN) — The Israelis are obsessed with themselves, with their history, with the present time and with their destiny. Every nation has some of this, but Israeli navel-gazing is something else. At this level of intensity, it makes compromise difficult and condemns Israel to political paranoia […]
Russia’s Rosatom Readies to Offer Africa Floating Nuclear Technology
By Kester Kenn Klomegah* MOSCOW | 6 October 2025 (IDN) — Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, showcased its latest floating nuclear technologies at African Energy Week 2025 (AEW 2025) in South Africa, engaging African energy experts, entrepreneurs, and policymakers on the adoption of floating nuclear plants. The corporation underscored its long-term commitment to delivering […]