BY TYLER DURDEN Summary China may be the first major country to launch a central bank digital currency or CBDC The Chinese CBDC, named DCEP,…
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By NEWS WIRES At least 110 people were killed in a weekend attack on farm workers in northeast Nigeria blamed on jihadists, the UN humanitarian coordinator…
Text by: NEWS WIRES Ivory Coast’s government on Tuesday accused the opposition of “plotting” against the state after it vowed to set up a rival…
By Strange Sounds Every five or so years, it rips me apart to watch the same tragedy: a La Niña weather cycle brings devastating drought…
By C. Douglas Golden It was one of the most misguided attempts at racial justice in what was one of the most systematically racist countries…
By Mac Slavo Testing will soon begin in poverty-stricken parts of Africa for a biometric ID which will also be your payment system and vaccine…
Hundreds of children are being kidnapped in Africa and bought to the UK for voodoo rituals, a UN watchdog said, also voicing alarm about the…
By Source – June 9, 2020 The swarms of locusts that covered Africa last year returned, pushing several nations into a food crisis. But just like…
Author David Lewis The President of Tanzania has reportedly banned the use of face masks after noting that “face mask usage has caused anxiety among…
By Takudzwa Changadeya-May 28, 2020 Harare-Three MDC-A female activists, who were allegedly abducted a few weeks ago, were charged with contravening the lockdown regulations at…
H I Sutton Contributor Aerospace & Defense I cover the changing world of underwater warfare. The Chinese Navy is building a string of overseas bases.…
Minxin Pei is professor of government at Claremont McKenna College and a nonresident senior fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. China’s…
Beijing is after political influence, and its coronavirus aid will count for much. China has plenty to gain from lending a hand to its friends…
By Nick Miroff August 21, 2019 at 5:11 p.m. GMT+2 The Trump administration is trying to reach a deal with the Panama government that would…
Yang Jiechi, China’s top diplomat, recently made several stops in Africa to monitor Chinese interests and bolster bilateral relations on the continent. Yang, the director…
The major powers have their ‘client states’ in pursuance of the extraction of those resources, where that extraction may result in corruption, confrontation, armed aggression,…
The United States and NATO operate the largest military infrastructure in Africa with thirty-four bases (some secret) and thirty new US military or NATO construction…
But concerns are being raised about whether they can all afford nuclear energy. The Russian nuclear power corporation Rosatom has already signed nuclear cooperation agreements…