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MULTILATERAL COOPERATION got another boost last Wednesday at the end of the 15th BRICS Summit in South Africa. Described as “Johannesburg II Declaration,” with a broad theme of “BRICS and Africa: Partnership for Mutually Accelerated Growth, Sustainable Development and Inclusive Multilateralism,” the report at the end of the meeting in Sandton, Gauteng, laid out 94 […]

LAST WEEKEND MARKED the fifth anniversary of the passing away of Kofi Atta Annan, a Ghanaian diplomat, who served as the seventh Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) from January 1997 to December 2006. He was the first from the UN staff to occupy that position. Mr. Annan died on August 18, 2018, at […]

SUBLIME DESCRIPTION of democracy can sometimes be misleading. Those countries purporting to export democracy all over the world have run into crises of some sorts over the past one or two decades. They have exposed their hypocrisy and double standards that easily offend the sensibility of many in other parts of the world and make […]

DIPLOMATIC SHUTTLES BY Emmanuel Macron since he became the president of France in 2017 to countries with historical ties must have taught him some great lessons of real differences between suppositions, assumptions and realities. Apart from the various French outposts in the Caribbean, Latin America and the Oceania where the countries under France’s sphere of […]

RUSSIA HAS ONCE AGAIN convened a summit with Africa last week. The summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and African leaders – referred to as Second Russia-Africa Summit or Russia–Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum for peace, security and development – was held at the Expo Forum in St. Petersburg on Thursday and Friday. This second […]

POSSIBILITIES OF CREATION of more countries in Africa are becoming more real. Out of the existing countries may emanate new ones. It has happened in the past and may yet happen again anytime soon. The struggle of the Saharawi Arab Republic (SAR) to become a fully independent state – though still hotly contested by Morocco […]

  AFRICANS HAVE TO DECIDE their future, whether they can actually operate as one indivisible entity or will forever remain divided. The various fissures, cleavages and fault lines within and between people in various parts of Africa have historical, social and political underpinnings. The scramble for Africa which came to a crescendo in the 1884 […]

POLITICAL POWER AND GOVERNANCE in Africa have their fair share of blame in Africa’s underdevelopment. Sovereignty of countries has been a shield – not so impenetrable – that wielders of political powers often use to keep themselves from public accountability and responsible leadership. And, quite sadly, the theoretical knowledge of the ideals of democracy is […]

JULY IS HERE, a month in which African leaders are expected to flock en masse again to Russia this year. This time, the meeting place is scheduled to be St. Petersburg. In addition to what could well become ritualistic, the essence of such an outlandish visit by these political heads of nations in this present […]

FOURTEEN MINUTES OF unbroken and uninterrupted comments by Cyril Ramaphosa, president of South Africa, made a mesmerising moment at the SUMMIT FOR A NEW GLOBAL FINANCING PACT in Paris last week. Kenya’s William Ruto was no less engaging while having a chat with the French President, Emmanuel Macron. The two stood out as African representatives […]