by Ambra Visentin
After an eight-year gap, the first summit between the United States and Africa took place from 13 to 15 December. An opportunity for the White House to make amends and to take bilateral relations to a different...
By Alice Pistolesi
Blood continues to flow in North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The latest massacre took place on 29 November, when at least 50 civilians were killed in Kishishe in Rutshuru territory, 70...
By Damilola Banjo for PassBlue.
This article featured originally on PassBlue.
Ruchira Kamboj, India’s ambassador to the United Nations, said the Security Council could no longer afford to delay being more reflective of the diversity of the UN “wider membership” if...
by Stefano Bocconetti
Even before borders, far, far before walls. Further: trying to stop migrants when they have only thought of setting off. Before they leave towards the Sahel or for Turkmenistan. For the Balkans or for Lampedusa. The plan...
by Ambra Visentin
The main hearing of the trial 'of the century', as the Belgian press itself called the trial on the 22 March 2016 terrorist attacks, began in Brussels yesterday, 5 December. The charges include 32 counts of murder,...
By Gianni Beretta
In the so-called Triangulo del Norte of the Central American isthmus, the maras have been raging since the 1990s. These youth gangs have gradually consolidated to the point of making Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras among the...
by Maurizio Sacchi
Brazil's newly appointed Economy Minister Paulo Guedes predicted on November 22nd that the country's gross debt will fall to 74.3 per cent of GDP in 2022, the lowest level since 2018 (75.3 per cent). At a press...
by Ambra Visentin
Once the dark side of 'the Moon' was exposed, there was no turning back. The tsunami of revelations about the practices of the Unification Church, also known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification and...
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)launched its annual report, Landmine Monitor 2022, on the occasion of the 20th Meeting of States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty. The event was held between 21 November and 25 November at...
by Ambra Visentin
The Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), a Hungarian institute funded by Viktor Orban's government, has just opened an office in the Belgian capital to build 'another narrative' than the one that dominates the European sphere. The launch event...
