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 […]
Situation Report Horn of Africa: RSF attacks hospital and mosque
Situation in Sudan (per 9 October) The Al-Saudi Hospital for Women and Maternity in El Fasher, North Darfur, was attacked by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) which led to killing of at least 12 people and injuring 17 more. The Al-Saudi Hospital is the last hospital open in the city. The attack occurred on Wednesday, […]
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 […]
The End of the Shinawatra Clan in Thailand?
By Jan Servaes* BRUSSELS | 7 October 2025 (IDN) — Thailand’s Constitutional Court removed Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, 39, the daughter of divisive but influential billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra, from office. The Court ruled that she committed a “grave breach of ethics” in a leaked phone call with Cambodian Senate President Hun Sen, in which she made disparaging […]
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 […]
Situation Report Horn of Africa: ICC convicts Darfur militia leader for war crimes
Situation in Sudan (per 6 October) An FB-10A short-range surface-to-air missile system has fallen into the hands of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The Chinese-made air defense system was originally purchased by Chad from China in February 2025 under a deal backed by the United Arab Emirates. The diversion of the air defense system to […]
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 […]