The world’s most important oil chokepoint is creating problems far beyond energy markets and China’s factory floors are starting to feel it. The Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway through which roughly a fifth of global oil supply passes daily, has returned to the centre of geopolitical anxiety. Fresh tensions
South Africa’s foreign policy has been under international scrutiny more often than any other nation on the African continent. This has largely been due to American President Donald Trump’s extended focus on the country. Trump cites a range of factors, arguably stemming from democratic South Africa’s support for Palestine and
India’s economic outlook has come under fresh pressure as escalating tensions in the Middle East feed into higher energy costs, renewed inflation risks, and growing geopolitical uncertainty around critical shipping routes. Moody’s lowers India growth forecast to 6% Credit rating agency Moody’s Ratings has cut India’s growth projection for the
India’s economic outlook has come under fresh pressure as escalating tensions in the Middle East feed into higher energy costs, renewed inflation risks, and growing geopolitical uncertainty around critical shipping routes. Moody’s lowers India growth forecast to 6% Credit rating agency Moody’s Ratings has cut India’s growth projection for the
The proposal, first reported by The New York Times and confirmed by advocacy group AfghanEvac whose president Shawn VanDiver stated he had been briefed directly by State Department officials, is not merely a logistical decision. It is, as VanDiver himself put it, "not a resettlement plan, it is a refusal
At the 82nd session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Alimov delivered a pointed message to the region’s policymakers: the Arctic is no longer a frozen frontier, it is a highway, and Russia intends to use
At the 82nd session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Alimov delivered a pointed message to the region’s policymakers: the Arctic is no longer a frozen frontier, it is a highway, and Russia intends to use
At the 82nd session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Alimov delivered a pointed message to the region’s policymakers: the Arctic is no longer a frozen frontier, it is a highway, and Russia intends to use
Prof. David Monyae The South Africa-China relationship, especially in the realm of economic diplomacy, continues to grow from strength to strength. This was after the two countries signed a new phytosanitary agreement – the Supplementary Phytosanitary Requirements for the Export of South African Citrus to China – amending the cold
A statement that demands an answer On April 3, Ibrahim Traoré stood before state television cameras and told the people of Burkina Faso and by extension, a watching continent, that democracy "kills," that it is "not for us," and that it must simply be forgotten. The statement reverberated across African