Global Geo-political Series: Bitter battle breaks out across EU
Mar 22, 2017 11:41 am UTC| Commentary
The comments made by the head of the Eurozones finance ministers, Jeroen Dijsselbloem have triggered a bitter battle across theEuropean continent. Speaking in an interview with the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine...
Africa offers a point of cooperation for Xi and Trump
Mar 22, 2017 07:07 am UTC| Insights & Views
Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump will meet for the first time at Trumps opulent Mar-a-Lago golf resort in Florida in early April. Theres no indication yet that they will discuss Africa. But both...
Responding to Trump's 'discoarse'? An African humanist philosophy may be the way
Mar 21, 2017 10:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
US President Donald Trump is easily the most controversial person on Twitter. He thrives on the medium and has been exploiting it effectively. The tone of many of Trumps tweets plus Twitters nature as a medium where...
French election: Macron takes lead in latest poll
Mar 21, 2017 08:10 am UTC| Commentary
French Presidential front-runner, the independent candidate Emmanuel Macron has taken a lead over the Front National leader Marine Le Pen for the first time in the round one of the French election, according to a poll...
We still don't know how 'America First' will play out in Asia
Mar 21, 2017 00:07 am UTC| Insights & Views
Last Thursday in Tokyo, Rex Tillerson broke his silence as US Secretary of State, saying that the US needed a different approach to North Korea, though declining to elaborate on the details. Since his confirmation in...
G20 finance ministers fail to reach an agreement to uphold free trade
Mar 20, 2017 13:51 pm UTC| Commentary Economy
Finance ministers and central bank governors of the worlds 20 biggest economies at a meeting in Germany during the weekend failed to keep their commitment to endorse free trade in the G-20 communique. Finance ministers...
The little-understood connection between Islamic terror and drug profits
Mar 20, 2017 01:25 am UTC| Insights & Views
Terrorists are in it as much for the loot as for the ideology. The Islamic State, or ISIS, could hardly exist, whatever its Islamist fervor, without hard cashfrom salesof pilfered petroleum, taxes on its subject...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects