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Category: Geopolitics

  • Pyongyang rebuilds rocket launch facility?

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    North Korea has begun rebuilding work on a satellite rocket launchpad and engine test site, in an ominous sign about its attitude toward negotiations on denuclearization. The relationship between the US and North Korea has always been fractious. During the war between North and…

  • Macron stresses on a “European Renaissance”

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    Emmanuel Macron has stepped up calls for a more united EU, laying out a series of proposals for a “European Renaissance” to fend off resurgent populists threatening to score big gains in the bloc’s elections in May 2019. Emmanuel Macron is a French politician serving as President of France ….

  • Ethiopian, Eritrean leaders visit South Sudan

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    The Ethiopian and Eritrean leaders arrived in Juba on March 4, 2019 with the view to spur President Salva Kiir to make more peace overtures in his country’s worsening political crisis. South Sudan is a landlocked country in East-Central Africa. The country gained its independence from Sudan…

  • Rwanda and Uganda address fallout

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    Rwandan Foreign minister Oliver Nduhungirehe explained the ongoing border standoff between his country and Uganda. In two tweets posted on his official account, Nduhungirehe clarified that Rwanda’s borders were not closed, adding that Rwandans were, however ‘strongly advised not to travel….

  • U.K Foreign Secretary visits Yemen

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    Britain’s Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt visited Yemen’s port city of Aden as part of a regional tour and urged parties in the nation’s four-year conflict to make greater efforts in order to secure a lasting peace. The Republic of Yemen is a country at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula…..

  • Venezuela update

    Venezuela update

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    The US is discussing emergency aid for Venezuela should the regime of Nicolás Maduro fall, including potential financial assistance alongside official loan programmes from the IMF and other institutions. NSA John Bolton has clarified the US’ position as seeking “complete regime change” in the country….

  • US merges Palestinian mission in Israel

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    The U.S. consulate in Jerusalem, which serves Palestinians, will be absorbed into the new U.S. Embassy to Israel, the State Department said, a planned merger that has angered Palestinian leadership. The Embassy of the United States of America in Jerusalem is the diplomatic mission of the …..

  • Rise in Terrorism in Africa

    Rise in Terrorism in Africa

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    Hundreds of United States commandos and other forces are leaving West Africa — despite an onslaught of attacks from an increasingly deadly matrix of Islamist fighters. Terrorism is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence as a means to create terror among masses of people; or fear to achieve…

  • UNSC in a gridlock over Venezuela

    UNSC in a gridlock over Venezuela

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    Russia and China vetoed a US resolution on Venezuela at the United Nations Security Council, expressing concerns over external interference in affairs of a sovereign state. A Russian draft also failed to find consensus. From 1948-1958 the South American country was under military dictatorship. 23rd January marks the day a civilian-military movement overthrew the government…

  • Jared Kushner meets Erdogan

    Jared Kushner meets Erdogan

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    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with U.S. President Donald Trump’s adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, during the American official’s regional tour to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Jared Corey Kushner is an American investor, real-estate developer, and newspaper publisher who is currently …..