There is a particular kind of corporate irony in watching a German luxury automaker and a Chinese mass-market challenger circle the same factory floor in a South African port city not out of ambition, but out of mutual necessity. The reported talks between Mercedes-Benz and Great Wall Motor over sharing
There is something quietly tragic about a country that watched its own greatness and then watched it recede, barrel by barrel, into the Atlantic. Angola was once the undisputed deepwater champion of the African continent , a petro-state whose geological fortune seemed, for a moment, inexhaustible. Today, that crown sits
Let me tell you something about Iran that Washington never quite learns. Iranians have been negotiating with empires for three thousand years. The Achaemenids, the Greeks, the Arabs, the Mongols, the British and every single one of them, at some point, declared they had broken Iran. Every single one of
The numbers on paper have never looked better for African manufacturing. The continent holds 18.3% of the world’s population, is projected by the IMF to grow at 4.1% in 2026, outpacing the global average of 3.0% and consistently ranks among the world’s fastest-growing regions. Global supply chains are fracturing. Companies
There’s a version of the Russia story that everyone understands. Oil. Gas. The energy weapon. The pipeline politics. It’s the version that gets written about because it’s visible; you can see it in the petrol price and in the gas bills of European households. But there’s a quieter instrument that
Everyone is watching the Strait of Hormuz right now. The burning tankers, the oil price ticking above $100, the White House press conferences. That’s understandable. However while that drama plays out, something arguably more consequential is happening in the background and it’s barely getting a line of coverage. Russia is
Prof. David Monyae and Prof. Victor Qin The events of 28 February 2026 marked a watershed in Middle East geopolitics. Under the pretext of prolonged indirect negotiations, the United States and Israel executed a precision decapitation strike that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with his daughter, son-in-law,
For decades, the internet has had a language problem. Its architecture, its logic, its defaults have been shaped by many dominant tongues, and everyone else was left to adapt. In Sub-Saharan Africa, a continent home to over 2,000 spoken languages and nearly 1.5 billion people, that adaptation has carried a
The UK new car market recorded its busiest February since 2004, with registrations rising 7.2% to 90 100 units, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Private retail sales drove much of the growth, climbing 17.6% to 35 227 vehicles, while fleet registrations edged up 1.8% and
On Saturday, across many timezones, the world awakened to the news of the death of the Supreme leader of Iran, killed by Israeli missiles targeting his residence. The myth of sovereignty and international law, or better the selectivity of its application, in full force where do we turn. Pakistan and