By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | STOCKHOLM. 7 August 2023 (IDN) — Long-held grievances between anti- and pro-government Eritreans exploded in the streets of Stockholm this past week, amidst an annual festival of Eritrean culture that drew thousands. Eritreans who oppose Pres. Isaias Afwerki tore down tents and set cars on fire, […]
Military Intervention in Troubled Niger Faces Pushback
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK. 7 August 2023 (IDN) — Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, as the new head of the Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS), is facing pressure from some neighbors and his own government to reject a military solution to the troubles in Niger, where military men recently removed President […]
Anti-Slavery Campaigner Frederick Douglass’ Statue Unveiled
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK. 7 August 2023 (IDN) — A statue of anti-slavery campaigner Frederick Douglass is now on display in Belfast city center—“amongst the people he loved.” Douglass gave around 50 speeches in his time in Ireland and could speak for up to two hours without notes. Professor Christine Kinealy, […]
An Early Warning to Prevent Renewed & Catastrophic Korean War
By Joseph Gerson* NEW YORK. 7 August 2023 (IDN) — Along with the obvious and increasing military tensions across the Taiwan Strait and in the South China/West Philippine Sea, the continuing danger that confrontational policies, arms racing, and provocative military operations across and around the Korean Peninsula could all too easily trigger escalation to the […]
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Bypasses Gender Parity
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS. 6 August 2023 (IDN) — The United Nations has been a vociferous and longstanding advocate of gender empowerment in its political, social and economic agenda characterized by 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including poverty and hunger eradication, quality education, human rights and climate change. In her 23 July presentation, titled […]
Niger Coup Reflects Anti-French Sentiment in the Region
By Kola King* LAGOS, Nigeria. 6 August 2023 (IDN) — Barely two weeks after President Bola Tinubu made his inaugural speech as the new Chairman of the Economic Community of West Africa, ECOWAS during the Africa Union, AU meeting held in Nairobi, Kenya on 16 July, where he excoriated coup plotters and military adventurers who […]
Will the Modern-Day Silk Road Bring Prosperity to Laos?
By Pattama Vilailert VIENTIANE, Laos. 5 August 2023 (IDN) — When a China-built high-speed railway began operations in December 2021, Laos joined the modern-day silk road project that opened itself to trade and tourism opportunities across Asia. But many in the country doubt whether the land-locked nation would reap full benefits. “Since the Laos-China railway […]
Kazakhstan Continues to Suffer Awful Impact of Nuclear Tests
By Aurora Weiss VIENNA. 4 August 2023 (IDN) — The Central Asian Republic of Kazakhstan, along with Japan and other Pacific Island states, is one of the most challenging in terms of the consequences of testing or use of nuclear weapons. Being a young state, Kazakhstan is facing a very heavy heritage and its difficult […]
Will ‘Oppenheimer’ Movie Avert Nuclear Holocaust?
By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN. 4 August 2023 (IDN) — The release of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer sparked a media frenzy just weeks before the first session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2026 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in Vienna. It is a biopic about the “father” […]
There Is a Lot More to the Coup in Niger Than Meets the Eye
By Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of LEADERSHIP newspaper based in Abuja, Nigeria. ABUJA. 3 August 2023 (IDN) — Not only are military coups becoming frighteningly frequent in West and Central Africa, virtually all of them, it appears, also speak French. For the fifth time in three years in West Africa, soldiers […]