Analysis by Allawi Ssemanda and Aziz Kalisa. Vice President Joe Biden talks with Chinese Vice President Xi and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger during a luncheon at the State Department, in Washington, DC, February 14, 2012. Curtesy Photo. For Read More …
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Ssemanda Allawi is a Senior Research Fellow at DWC and author Global Governance and Norm Contestation: How BRICS is Reshaping World Order.
How Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed went from man of peace to a leader at war.
Domestic conflict threatens to wreck any chance of peaceful democratic transition promised by Nobel Peace Prize winner By David Pilling and Andres Schipani. “War is the epitome of hell,” Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister, told an audience in Oslo last December on Read More …
What’s at stake as conflict flares in Ethiopia?
By David Pilling and Andreas Schipani Military confrontation in Africa’s second most populous country could spill out across the regionHeavy fighting has broken out in the northern region of Tigray after Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister, announced he was sending Read More …
Chinese peacekeepers Boast South Sudan’s police with supplies to fight COVID-19.
Central Equatoria, South Sudan The Chinese peacekeepers have donated supplies to help South Sudan’s Central Equatoria regional police to contain COVID-19. According to information posted on Chinese embassy in South Sudan, Chinese UN police (UNPOL) serving in the United Nations Read More …
Global Governance: Erdogan Is Creating a New World Order in Which Turkey Is Rising Star
By Ssemanda Allawi, Marvin Saasi and Emmanuel Mukiibi Anyone is hoping for a turnabout in International Policy that would bend Erdogan’s will has received his loud and clear message: Turkey will be everywhere and nobody will stop it. Turkey’s move Read More …
Uganda hosts the biggest number of separated children in the world.
By Aggrey Nyondwa Recent statistics by the UNHCR indicate that Uganda now hosts 36,000 children who have arrived unaccompanied to the border, having been separated from their families due to conflict, killing and displacement ‚Äì making it the country with Read More …
Funding Cripples Refugee Children Protection Activities in Uganda.
By Aggrey Nyondwa As the Uganda refugee crisis gradually continues to lose media attention, already underfunded services to protect children are being slashed. More than 1.3 million people found refuge in Uganda after fleeing violence and deprivation in neighbouring countries. Read More …
Magufuli, Magufulism, and Tanzanians Fading Hopes For Free and Fair Presidential Elections.
By Kalisa Aziz and Ssemanda Allawi. Gearing up for its 6th general election since the restoration of multi-party politics in 1992, Tanzania should be abuzz with political campaigns and the usual hubbub seen in an African presidential election: Political rallies, Read More …
US Presidential Debate. Here’s what you need to know about tonight’s showdown.
Kate Sullivan Less than two weeks from Election Day, Joe Biden and President Trump are scheduled to appear onstage 9:00 p.m. ET for the final general election presidential debate of 2020. The televised event may be the last opportunity for both candidates to reach Read More …
Why Africa Deserves a Permanent Seat on United Nations Security Council
When United Nations (UN) was founded in October 1945, only four African countries were part of this organization. Today, all 54 countries are member states of the UN. Of the 193 member states, only China, France, Russia, United Kingdom and Read More …