With a month left of his tenure, Biden is uses visit to Angola to push US interests in African

With a month left of his tenure, Biden is uses visit to Angola to push US interests in African

Joe Biden has long had the nickname Amtrak Joe for the 36 years he spent commuting by US train from his home in Delaware to Washington while in the Senate. He said the Lobito Corridor constituted the largest US investment in a train project outside the country.

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Vice President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah wins Namibian presidential election

Vice President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah wins Namibian presidential election

A mood of change has swept across the region, with parties that led their countries out of white minority or colonial rule in neighbouring South Africa and Botswana both losing their long-held political dominance.

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Scramble for Africa’s natural resources ushers in militarisation of China’s foreign policy

Scramble for Africa’s natural resources ushers in militarisation of China’s foreign policy

China’s expanded African engagements follow its global ambitions. When FOCAC was launched in 2000, China had no peacekeepers in Africa and lagged far behind the United States and Europe in the training of African students, civilian and military professionals. Chinese security assistance was non-existent, and China was absent in African security debates.

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Migrants prefer their countries despite surge in poverty, unemployment, insecurity and political crises to settling in US

Migrants prefer their countries despite surge in poverty, unemployment, insecurity and political crises to settling in US

Organised crime has established extensive human trafficking networks across Mexico, making the journey north through the country treacherous. Mexico is plagued by violence, with around 30,000 people murdered a year and over 100,000 people officially registered as missing.

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Biden arrives in Angola to highlight US investments in southern Africa, visit slavery museum

Biden arrives in Angola to highlight US investments in southern Africa, visit slavery museum

The US has for years built relations in Africa through trade, security and humanitarian aid. The 800-mile (1,300-kilometre) railway upgrade is a different move and has shades of China’s Belt and Road foreign infrastructure strategy in Africa and other parts of the world.

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Iraq, deemed economic lung of Iran, targets high fuel oil exports this year via smuggling

Iraq, deemed economic lung of Iran, targets high fuel oil exports this year via smuggling

In January 2023, a few months after Sudani took over, the price was lowered to $100-$150 a ton, far below the market price for exports, estimated at anywhere between $300 and $500. The lower the price of the subsidised fuel, the higher the profit margin when exporting it on the international market.

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Iran and its proxies reel under US sanctions as oil smuggling network rakes in $1 billion

Iran and its proxies reel under US sanctions as oil smuggling network rakes in $1 billion

Iran views its neighbour and ally Iraq as an economic lung and wields considerable military, political and economic influence there through the powerful Shi’ite militias and political parties it backs. It also sources hard currency from Iraq through exports and avoids US sanctions via its banking system, Iraqi and US officials say.

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French government on verge of collapse asr left, far-right no-confidence motions

French government on verge of collapse asr left, far-right no-confidence motions

The parties announced their no-confidence motions after Barnier said earlier on Monday that he would try to ram a social security bill through parliament without a vote as a last-minute concession proved insufficient to win RN’s support for the legislation.

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With command and obey approach to water management, Ugandan president seeks to be the deific centre of life

With command and obey approach to water management, Ugandan president seeks to be the deific centre of life

In any case integrated natural resources management cannot be achieved if there are no professionally produced integrators in charge. Such actors can be produced at our institutions of higher learning if integrating sciences – interdisciplinarity, crossdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity and extradisciplinarity – are institutionalised at our university campuses. Only Mbarara University of Science has accommodated interdisciplinary science.

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Two ATMIS troop contributing countries offer to mediate in Ethiopia-Somalia row

Two ATMIS troop contributing countries offer to mediate in Ethiopia-Somalia row

The office of Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said in a statement that Mohamud had met President William Ruto of Kenya and President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda on the sidelines of the summit, but it did not make reference to a potential mediation.

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