Anti-French sentiment has emerged as a potent political force in much of francophone Africa. It contributed to the failure of France’s strategy in the Sahel and has played a role in the overturning of ...

With Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Iran joining the BRICS at the beginning of 2024, the group now embodies a group of influential states on the international stage, ...

The situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has significantly worsened in recent months, with a Rwandan offensive supporting the M23 armed group on Congolese territory. This intervention, ...

Overall, turbulence has been prevalent in Asia throughout 2024: growing tensions in the China-U.S. relationship, contrasting elections in a quarter of the countries in the region, including two of the ...

The Panama Canal is a crucial maritime trade artery, handling a significant share of international exchanges, particularly for the United States, its primary user. Amid escalating US-China tensions, ...

Between famine, the destruction of infrastructure and the mass displacement of civilians, the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip continues to deteriorate. Since the attacks of 7 October 2023, ...

2024 was marked by a significant number of decisive elections in countries formerly part of the USSR or within its sphere of influence, including Moldova, Georgia, and Romania. In each of these ...

On October 15, 2024, shareholders of Kazatomprom, Kazakhstan’s national atomic company, approved the largest sale of natural uranium concentrates in the company’s history to China National Uranium ...

The United Kingdom, France, Germany, the European Union and the African Union co-chaired the London Conference on Sudan on 16 April 2025, marking the beginning of the third year of fighting. The civil ...

Deep sea mining is at the heart of an intense international debate. While some states and companies see it as a strategic opportunity for the supply of critical metals, others warn of the ecological ...

Ever since the European Union (EU) extended its competences to the field of armaments, it has faced a persistent dilemma: how to involve (or not) entities from third countries in the programmes it has ...

The Challenge to the Most-Favoured-Nation (MFN) Principle Since its establishment in 1995, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has been based on a set of principles designed to govern free trade among ...