Category: TRENDS IN GEOPOLITICS

Bobbi Wine, the top opposition candidate in Uganda’s presidential election, has been an outspoken critic of the country’s election while under armed house arrest. The Wall Street Journal reported that Wine called the 14 January election a “coup” and a “mockery of democracy.” Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni reportedly won the election by securing 58 percent of...

Tensions are simmering between Ethiopia and Sudan over territory along their border, which threatens to engulf Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, into another major conflict as it fights with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). Deutsche Welle, the German paper, reported last week that the tension over the land goes back to when the border was...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced last week that the city would cut business ties with the Trump Organization after this month’s riot at the Capitol, which Democrats blame solely on President Trump and his rhetoric. “The city of New York will no longer have anything to do with The Trump Organization,” de...

Senator Rand Paul said in an interview last week that the newly-implemented security apparatus at the Capitol is an overreaction and seems to have turned the city into a “militarized zone.” More than 20,000 armed National Guardsmen have descended on the Capitol after the riot on 6 January while Congress certified the Electoral College vote...

No surprise. An old trend has new life. It was happening before the COVID War, and, now, with economic conditions deteriorating while corruption, crime, and violence are rising, people are escaping their downtrodden nations to find safe-havens. A migrant caravan from Honduras is making its way to the U.S. due to worsening conditions at home...

Indian farmers lashed out at a recent ruling by the country’s Supreme Court, which we reported in the Trends Journal last week, that called for a temporary halt to the controversial farm bill signed into law by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The court called on experts to mediate between the farmers and Modi’s government to...

Bobbi Wine, Uganda’s top opposition candidate, said his compound in the country’s capital, Kampala, was breached by security forces Friday and he was “under siege” shortly before it was announced he lost his bid to unseat the country’s six-term president, The New York Times reported. “The military has jumped over the fence and is now taking...

Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN), a major internet provider in the city, announced last week that it disabled access to HKChronicles, a pro-democracy website, after a request by officials who cited the new security law that prompted months of protests. HKCronicles reportedly “doxxed” pro-Beijing influencers, police, and their families. Reuters reported HKBN was informed about...

Unidentified gunmen raided a village in the western region of Ethiopia last Tuesday and killed at least 80 people in what was called an ethnic massacre by witnesses and the country’s human rights commission. The killings occurred as the country is embroiled in a conflict in its Tigray region during an effort by Prime Minister...

Israel launched an air attack in Syria on Wednesday that killed some 40 Syrian soldiers and reduced a weapons depot and other sites to rubble, a report said. The Wall Street Journal reported the targets were in various cities, including some that border Iraq. Tzachi Hanegbi, Israel’s settlement affairs minister, said, “Israel is determined to...