China deepens ties with South Africa, Saudi Arabia in pushback against U.S. tariff escalation

As tensions surge between the world’s two largest economies, China is ramping up its global diplomacy, holding strategic talks with Saudi Arabia and South Africa to counterbalance the United States’ sweeping new tariffs. China’s commerce minister Wang Wentao recently held virtual meetings with his counterparts in Saudi Arabia and South Africa, focusing on responses to […]

West African heatwave caused by climate change- study

A study by the World Weather Attribution group of scientists found that the heat wave that damaged crops in West Africa was triggered by human-caused global heating. The heatwave, with temperatures averaging 40C, damaged the cocoa harvest in West Africa, sending prices of the key chocolate ingredient higher. Farmers in Ghana and Côte D’Ivoire, which […]

Verbal Blunders against Morocco Will not Help Algeria Make Inroads in Africa

Morocco’s African policy, its triumphal return to the African Union and its largescale investments in Africa are sending shockwaves across Algeria. Outperformed by Morocco in Africa at the economic and political levels, Algerian officials have lost track of diplomatic norms blaming the failure of their country’s policy in Africa on Rabat’s use of cannabis money […]