China’s Belt and Road investment in sub-Saharan Africa fell to a new low in 2023, which demonstrates that increased EU and US spending could reduce the region’s need to rely on Beijing for funding. China’s investment in the region related to Beijing’s Belt and Road (BRI) initiative, the main pillar of its global infrastructure development […]
Lebanese Islamist group of Hezbollah, supported by Iran, has built a remote airstrip in the northern Bekaa Valley, says IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly in its latest release. The airstrip around 10 miles west of the Syrian border was discovered through some satellite images. According to some defence experts, the single unpaved strip is unlikely to […]
Sidi Ali Ould Mbeirick, a Mauritanian political activist in exile and loyalist of former President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, has vowed to engage in an armed confrontation with the country’s incumbent leader Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, if he persists in prosecuting and torturing the former leader currently facing justice. Mbeirick made the announcement on the sidelines of […]
