In the US mid-term elections in January 2023, Ron DeSantis, a Republican, was re-elected as Governor of Florida. In his state, he managed to win seats in areas traditionally held by Democratic candidates. He did this by waving the flag of religious extremism, managing to
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One year into the war, who is winning it? Militarily, Kiev has managed, thanks to Western support, to hold out. But commercially and diplomatically, despite the economic sanctions imposed by many countries, things may be different from what they seem. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s trips to
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While the eyes of the world are on the Russian-Ukrainian border and that between China and Taiwan, conflicts of planetary importance are being fought as if it were pointless to worry about tomorrow. There is a geographical axis, running from Ethiopia and Eritrea to Cabinda, the Angolan
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Europe is in a deep crisis. Exactly as it was a century ago, Sarajevo could be the stage on which the spark that led to world war was ignited. It is a small spark, for now, a local conflict between three ethnic groups that have always been
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is one step closer to proceedings that will lead to his resignation. As in the case of his predecessor (and, perhaps, successor), Jacob Zuma, an independent commission of enquiry has been able to demonstrate serious examples of corruption – a commission manoeuvred
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His name instils respect and awe in at least five generations of politicians, military personnel and entrepreneurs: Henry Kissinger, advisor to presidents, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1973 (for deciding the end of the Vietnam War that he himself had helped to unleash), will be 100 years
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A cold November in 1968, snow and despair, and a song. Singing it, to vindicate democracy, is a charming and proud twenty-something, wearing boots and hair as they are worn in London, and eyes made up in the heavy black of revolt. In the cultural ferment that
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Europe has no friends. On the contrary: as we have seen in the last ten months, it is the fat cow to be slaughtered at the slaughterhouse of a global crisis – ecological, economic and social – for which no one has any solutions, except that, precisely,
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Europe needs 18 million barrels of oil per day. An immense figure, but already significantly less than the almost 22 million barrels consumed daily in 2008, when the great financial crisis threw the entire world economy into panic[1]. Our continental production, which was 3.5 million barrels per
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CH The need to improve the planet’s logistics networks continues to grow, especially with the increasing uncertainty over peace and the availability of energy and mineral resources. Especially on African soil, which offers the greatest possibilities and is the most backward, a real race has broken out
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