Ethiopia’s new year seaport deal with Somaliland has generated tension and sparked concerns among neighbors in an already volatile Horn. Michael Asiedu 22 February 2024…
China challenges the West as to who could build more schools, hospitals, and sports stadiums for ordinary people in low-income countries. Michael Asiedu, 13 December…
Ambassador Christoph Thun-Hohenstein is the Director General for International Cultural Relations at the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs. He shares impressions of…
Weak state authority, easy access to firearms and indifference towards conflict resolution mechanisms has ensured that militant groups rather than the states are the predominant…
Global supply chains featuring commodity ingredients and foods are often opaque, tangled and secretive. Huge multi-national food companies often have well-crafted human rights policies listed…
On Africa Day at the UN in Vienna the Africa Interactive digital project was presented to the world. Governments, museums and private collections have been…
South Africa finds itself in its worst energy crisis in decades with daily rolling blackouts throwing the country into economic and social disorder. The former…
Powerful UK institutions from the monarchy to Ekaterra (formerly Unilever and Brooke Bond) are being confronted over a British colonial-era land grab in Kenya’s Kericho…
Turkey and Iran regard the African continent as an important arena in their quest for international influence. Despite their ideological differences and each having its…
Despite having experienced genocide, Rwanda, through a combination of a forward-thinking President and an engaged female population, has taken the initiative to build itself gradually…