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 Francine Mestrum* – Meer
If we want to fight inequality and promote social change, we will have to relaunch the brilliant idea of welfare states or, even better, promote a new eco-social contract.
It is surprising to note that many...
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 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...
By Alice Pistolesi
The suffering of the Syrian population continues unabated. On Wednesday 9 March, Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the UN International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, described the impact of the 11-year conflict on communities as "devastating" at a...
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 Francesca Mollica
It was 2018 when the Green Gold Cooperative managed to reach a great goal: exporting its first coffee crop.
This story begins in 2015 thanks to the collaboration with UNODC (United Nations agency for drug control and crime...
By Emanuele Giordana
After losing the multi-billion dollar contract to supply attack submarines to Australia, France is looking for new partners in the arms trade. Just a few days ago, Indonesia pledged to cooperate with France's defence industry 'in the...
By Marco Grisanti
One thing is certain: Bitcoin is divisive. On the one hand, there are actors like the Russian Central Bank, who want to ban cryptocurrency because of the risk of strong financial instability that they imply, as they...
Nairobi (from our correspondent)
In 2022 only, ten internet shutdowns in six countries around the world had already caused a loss of more than $621 million. And from 2019 to date, with 257 major service outages in 46 countries, the...
