Europe

Women everywhere were angered by a viral video showing four armed policemen surrounding a woman sitting on a beach in Nice, making her remove her long-sleeved outer shirt and scarf.  This scene, calling to mind other violations and humiliations women endure daily, was made no less ugly by th

Since March 2016, Zaiser has been the Chair (Head) of Africa Business Initiative (ABI), created with the support of Russian businesses as a platform for the humanitarian, economic and legal expertise, aimed at strengthening relations between Russia and Africa.

Introduction

Today, in the globalized neoliberal system (which I prefer to call ordo-liberal, borrowing this excellent term from Bruno Ogent) dominated by financialised monopolies of the imperialist triad (United States, Europe, Japan), the political authorities in charge of the management of the system for t

Written and researched by Mark Curtis, the report reveals the degree to which British companies now control Africa’s key mineral resources, notably gold, platinum, diamonds, copper, oil, gas and coal.

For decades African countries have been forced by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to implement neoliberal policies, including opening their markets to foreign competition, reducing the role of the state in providing basic services and abolishing subsidies to the poor. 

Official government representatives and private individuals from about fifteen African countries attended the IV Russia-African Forum (RAF) held on 11-14 July as part of the INNOPROM-2016 international industrial trade fair in Yekaterinburg (Urals).

Former Greek Finance Minister Yiannis Varoufakis’ crusade to help save the 60-year-old European Union from a growing potential disintegration is intriguing.

"African art, like any great art, some would say, in any case more than any man transmitted to objects by man and his society.

During the long journey to Europe we go through numerous risks. Fear accompanies every single border crossing we are trying to achieve and gets even stronger when we manage to do so.