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As Iran-Taliban tensions rise, Afghan migrants in tinderbox | 2022-05-02 14:12:07

By Kidane Alemayehu April 29, 2020 1.Abstract The main purpose and objective of this paper is to identify the main challenges being encountered by the countries and people of the Horn of Africa as well as those adjacent to the Red Sea. It is well known that the region is bestowed by immense natural resources including

Both Iran and the Taliban do not want an escalation, but long-smoldering hostilities risk spiraling out of control.

Mercenaries have become increasingly influential as states across Africa battle with an increase in armed groups.

The European Union’s proposed batteries regulation should require importers and manufacturers to source the bauxite, copper, and iron used in batteries responsibly.

We will all gain when individuals with a diverse set of identities, experience, skills, expertise, and education bind their power together, fight for each other and, together, create a gender-equal world that benefits all.

Digital connectivity is enriching the human experience—but the reality is that this is limited to those who are connected.

Said by the US to be financed by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an oligarch of partial Jewish descent who is under US sanctions, the gunmen carry out military ops in many African countries

Russia has engaged in under-the-radar military operations in at least half a dozen countries in Africa in the last five years using a shadowy mercenary force analysts say is loyal to President Vladimir Putin

When abuses were reported in recent weeks in Mali — fake graves designed to discredit French forces; a massacre of some 300 people, mostly civilians — all evidence pointed to the shadowy mercenaries of Russia’s Wagner Group. Even before these feared professional soldiers joined the assault on Ukraine, Russia had deployed them to under-the-radar military…