By Antonio Donini
Afghanistan is regularly portrayed as “the graveyard of empires”. The British, Soviets and now the US-led coalition have tried and failed to impose their rule and their ill-thought models of governance and development. On 15 August 2022...
by Anna Violante
After a year of proposals, discussions, a parliamentary approval (early November) and numerous trips by Ms Meloni to African Countries, the Mattei plan was officially launched in the Italian Senate, where ordinary senators were temporarily barred from...
By Navid Hanif* for Othernews
As the world is rocked by a confluence of crises, the global economic outlook for 2022 is becoming ever more uncertain and fragile. Prospects for sustainable development for all and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals...
By Emanuele Giordana
"Immediate action is needed to prevent further damage and escalation of the disaster in Afghanistan, where poverty has reached unprecedented levels since the financial reserves were frozen in US and European banks last August". This is the...
by Sara Gorelli, for the Italian “Associazione Nazionale Vittime Civili di Guerra” (ANVCG).
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The humanitarian approach to disarmament, also known as Humanitarian Disarmament, is an advocacy movement aimed...
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
For at least two years, Cuba has been suffering from severe shortages of food and other goods. It is the worst crisis since 1959, when Fidel Castro's revolution established a communist regime in the country, and it...
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 Maurizio Sacchi
At the moment, despite the uproar they are causing, the economic sanctions imposed on Russia by some of the nations in the Western camp are "a blunt weapon". This is the argument put forward by ISPI, the...
The world is thirstier than ever. The dozens of water crises experienced in the summer of 2021 are just some of the most well-known manifestations of the chronic water scarcity the world is facing at every latitude. For decades,...
