By Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake* COLOMBO, Sri Lanka | 21 April 2025 (IDN) — Leaders of the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka have again called for a proper investigation into the Easter attacks of six years ago. Meanwhile, a local political blame game starring Pillayan has ramped up to conceal the foreign fingerprints and geopolitical motives of […]
Africa’s Agenda 2063: A Long-Term Vision with a Long Road Ahead
By Fredrick Nzwili* This opinion article first appeared as a blog for the Bertelmann Stiftung Transformation Index (BTI). NAIROBI, Kenya | 20 April 2025 (IDN) — With Agenda 2063, the recent African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa focused on a plan that outlines the vision of a fully integrated, prosperous, and peaceful Africa. However, cooperation […]
Towards A New International Order? India, Sri Lanka and The New Cold War
By Dr. Asoka Bandarage* COLOMBO, Sri Lanka | 19 April 2025 (IDN) — Will a peaceful and sustainable multipolar world be born when the rising economic weight of emerging economies is matched with rising geopolitical weight, as argued by renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs in his recent Other News article?[1] There is no question that, as […]
Haiti Situation Report: Viv Ansanm members killed in drone strike
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Ending FGM Means Funding Grassroots African Activists
By Nimco Ali OBE and Baroness Helena Kennedy LT KC NAIROBI, Kenya | 17 April 2025 (IDN) — As two women who have spent our lives working for the human rights of women and girls, we are joining forces to highlight the ongoing failure to support grassroots activism to end the devastating practice of female […]
Situation report: Two-year anniversary of Sudan’s war
Europe External Programme with Africa is a Belgium-based Centre of Expertise with in-depth knowledge, publications, and networks, specialised in issues of peacebuilding, refugee protection, and resilience in the Horn of Africa. EEPA has published extensively on issues related to the movement and/or human trafficking of refugees in the Horn of Africa and on the Central […]
Lesotho Gears Up to Face Highest U.S. Tariff Rate
By Pavan Kulkarni, Peoples Dispatch NEW DELHI | 14 April 2025 (IDN) —Slapped with the highest tariff rate imposed by the Trump administration on countries across the globe on April 2, the small southern African kingdom of Lesotho, with a population of just above 2 million, finds itself in dire straits. Fears abound that the 50% […]
SADC Announces DRC Withdrawal As M23 Captures More Territory
By Africa Defense Forum STUTTGART, Germany | 14 Aprill 2025 (IDN) — The Southern African Development Community (SADC) on March 13 announced the termination and phased withdrawal of its military mission in the embattled eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where M23 rebels have gained ground. The decision was foreshadowed by the late February repatriation […]
Situation Report Horn of Africa: RSF kills hundreds in attacks on IDP camps
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Africa Is at The Centre Of 21st-Century Challenges
By Vamo Soko and Bintu Zahara Sakor* The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) published this article as Blog. OSLO, Norway | 13 April 2025 (IDN) — Africa is not a homogeneous entity. Unlike the United States or China, it does not have a unified political power capable of defending a common interest. Its cultural, economic, […]