Category: TRENDS IN GEOPOLITICS

The U.S. Africa Command on Friday authorized its second round of airstrikes in northern Somalia amid clashes between Al-Shabab fighters and the country’s armed forces, reports said. The New York Times reported that the U.S. carried out two separate airstrikes last week to support the country’s Danab, the elite “American-trained Somali commando force.” The first airstrike...

The Tigray People’s Liberation Front continued on its move last week to repel federal troops in various parts of the country of 114 million people, which has raised new concerns that Ethiopia could be torn apart. As we have been reporting, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, the 2019 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, ordered a...

The Biden administration is considering the role that the U.S. military should play in Haiti after an alleged team of mercenaries armed raided the President of Hait’s Port-au-Prince home earlier this month and killed him. The New York Times laid out the history of the U.S.’s relationship with the island nation and how, in the 1960s,...

Deadly protests and looting broke out across South Africa—a country that has economically suffered under COVID-19 lockdowns—after the arrest earlier this month of Jacob Zuma, the former president, for failing to attend a corruption inquiry over his nine-year rule. The Financial Times described a dire situation in the country. Cities “are trawled by gangs of looters,...

A top Chinese official made it clear that Beijing will place blame squarely on the U.S. if the chaos breaking out in Afghanistan spreads throughout the region, according to a report. “The United States, which created the Afghan issue in the first place, should act responsibly to ensure a smooth transition in Afghanistan,” Wang Yi,...

Tigrayan forces last month marched thousands of battered Ethiopian troops they had taken prisoner during the months-long conflict with the country’s military that resulted in a tense cease-fire but with reports of continued fighting. As we have been reporting, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, the 2019 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, ordered a major offensive...

Thousands of Cubans took the streets on Sunday to call on the country’s government to be dissolved and for more freedoms amid a new outbreak of COVID-19 infections. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, the head of the country’s Communist Party, made it clear that he intends to make quick work of these anti-government protesters. The BBC reported that...