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 […]
When the Seasons Forget the Wayfarers
UN Warns on Migration By Ramesh Jaura Migration is a memory, an ancient synchrony of wings, hooves, and tides. As the planet warms, that memory falters — and the world grows quieter without its travellers. This article was first published on: https://rjaura.substack.com BERLIN | 5 October 2025 (WorldView) — On a fog-thick morning in the […]
A Rare Alignment: The World Stands Ready, Are the Palestinians?
By Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 2 October 2025 (IDN) — The international community has rallied behind the Palestinians in support of their aspiration for statehood. The question is, will the Palestinians seize this rare opportunity and adopt a new strategy critical to realizing their national goal? I do not recall a period since the […]
Trump’s Board of Peace May Soon be Bored with Peace
By James E. Jennings* ATLANTA, USA | 2 October 2025 (IDN) — Last Monday’s show at the White House featured a smug-faced Prime Minister Netanyahu and a rambling, self-congratulatory President Trump, virtually bestowing the Nobel Prize on himself for his “Millennial” achievement. It was somewhat reminiscent of the scene at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris […]
Trump’s Peace Plan: A Turning Point for Palestine?
By Somar Wijayadasa* NEW YORK | 1 October 2025 (IDN) — Nearly two years into the genocidal war in Gaza, the international community has reached a turning point. With a historic genocide ruling from the UN, a sweeping diplomatic recognition of Palestinian statehood, and mounting pressure on Israel, world leaders are now acting with rare […]
A Serious Proposal: Russia and China Call for Global Strategic Stability
By Alice Slater* NEW YORK | 1 October 2025 (IDN) — It’s ironic that the arms control community is protesting the idea of resuming nuclear test detonations. The nuclear test detonations have never stopped. Although Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996, he swiftly funded the “Stockpile Stewardship” program at the […]