China has become one of Africa’s largest development financiers. Since 2000, Chinese and other state-backed institutions have committed more than US$180 billion in loans to African countries. The money has been used to finance roads, railways, power stations, ports, water infrastructure and industrial projects. Agriculture has also become part of this expanding...
By Lesedi Sibiya-Diplomatic Insider
The March and March movement in retaliation to the fatal shooting of Andile Mvuyelwa Somgxada, who served as the leader of March and March’s Gauteng chapter, has vowed that their protests will intensify due to the wave of threats to their...
By Lesedi Sibiya-Diplomatic Insider
A two-year production pause has been implemented at De Beers’ Venetia mine in Limpopo and this could cause a mass loss of employment for thousands of...
A US umbrella group for organizations inspired by the late Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has called for an independent investigation of Turkey’s 2016 coup attempt, accusing the government of...
Guinea-Bissau has renewed last week its support for Morocco’s position on Western Sahara, once again hailing the Moroccan autonomy proposal as the most realistic and viable route to lasting settlement of the decades-long dispute.
This reiteration of the Guinean position in support of Moroccan territorial integrity came earlier today during...
China has become one of Africa’s largest development financiers. Since 2000, Chinese and other state-backed institutions have committed more than US$180 billion in loans to African countries. The money has been used to finance roads, railways, power stations, ports, water infrastructure and industrial projects. Agriculture has also...
By Mirna Fahmy
Navigating through the ruins of the ancient world, one can still find massive circuses and stadiums in almost every former Roman colony. Though they are left out...
South Sudan’s independence from Sudan in 2011 was meant to close the chapter on one of Africa’s longest civil wars: the north-south war that preceded it. Formally, it did. But independence did...
By Virginia Keppler-Young
Referring to himself as an authentic product from Taiwan, Representative Oliver Liao, a career diplomat of the Republic of China (Taiwan), not only presented authentic Taiwanese dishes, but he is a pro at flipping an oyster omelette.
And he definitely knows how to make the tastiest Bubble tea,...
By Lesedi Sibiya-Diplomatic Insider
South Africa continues to be at a point of contention regarding the protests surrounding illegal immigration. A good amount of foreign...
By Lesedi Sibiya-Diplomatic Insider
The African National Congress (ANC) has stated that in the 32 years that it has been in office in democratic South...
