India Can Benefit From a Bigger BRICS
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: India stands to benefit from the recent BRICS expansion, protests erupt in Pakistan over high...
Gabon junta appoints army officer as transitional president
Soldiers in Gabon appointed the head of the republican guard as the OPEC member state’s new leader, hours after placing President Ali Bongo under house...
How U.N. Peacekeeping Accidentally Fuels Africa’s Coups
On July 26, Gen. Abdourahamane Tchiani detained Niger’s democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum, and installed himself as the head of the so-called National Council for...
Gabon coup: Tinubu restates commitment to defending democracy in Africa
Bola Tinubu, chairperson of ECOWASPresident Bola Tinubu has asked for a comprehensive consensus against the spread of “contagious autocracy” across Africa, in the wake of...
France’s mayors wade into a crisis zone on Armenia’s border
[ad_1] KORNIDZOR, Armenia — Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s motorcade tore through the Armenian countryside on Wednesday, escorted by a dozen or so beaten-up cars blaring...
China Is Closing in on Itself
One weekend in late July, I hired a car and driver to take me from Chengdu, the capital of China’s Sichuan province, to Leshan, a...
Analysis: Why Gabon’s coup differs from recent military interventions in Africa
Gen. Brice Oligui Nguema’s coup against Gabon’s president Ali Bongo Ondimba is a spectacular act of betrayal. As well as being commander of the Republican...
Egypt’s Sisi Rules by Fear—and Is Ruled by It
According to Nashat al-Daihi, the host of an Egyptian television program called “With Pen and Paper,” I am in the pay of the Muslim Brotherhood....
President Tinubu Condemns Gabon Coup, Urges Legal Resolution of Electoral Disputes » YNaija
In a swift response to the recent coup in Gabon, President Bola Tinubu has expressed his concern and commitment to upholding democratic values on the...
The American Left Realigns Its Relationship to Latin America
During a visit to the White House last February after starting his third stint in office, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva bonded with...