Soil pollution refers to the presence of harmful substances in the soil, which can cause harm to living organisms and negatively affect the productivity of the soil. Causes of soil pollution include industrial activities, agricultural practices, improper waste disposal, and leakage from underground storage tanks. There are several areas that are particularly vulnerable to soil pollution because of a combination …

French President Emmanuel Macron’s trip to Africa brings France’s relations with Rwanda to the fore again. Relations between the two countries have always been strained due to the involvement of French troops in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The genocide in Rwanda took place between the Tutsi and the Hutus. During the genocide almost 800,000 people were lost, mostly members of …

Chinese investments in Africa have been significant over the last few decades, primarily focused on infrastructure, natural resources, and trade. Overall, Chinese investment in Africa has been viewed both positively and negatively, with some experts arguing that it has contributed to African economic development, while others argue that it has led to exploitation and increased dependency. There are several other …

France is one of the countries that have a long history and at the same time a presence on the African continent. The presence of France is observed from the 17th century and it gets even stronger from the 19th to the 20th, where the decolonization of African areas gradually begins. Despite their independence from Paris, several of the countries …

The issue of the recognition of the independence of Kosovo has been a challenge for the EU for more than a decade now. Still to this day, five Member States, naming Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Slovakia, and Spain refuse to recognize Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence of 17 February 2008. However, it was in Spain v. Commission that, for the first …

According to a report released by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the new year found 4.1 million people in north-west Syria, out of which 80% are women and children, in the need of humanitarian aid to fulfill their basic needs. A month earlier, the UN OCHA estimated that the number of aid recipients in Syria …

Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump have found themselves in the middle of some controversial scandals related to the storage of classified documents. The current and the former president, in different circumstances, have retained documents containing government secrets after having abandoned their institutional roles: Biden as vice-president under the Obama administration and Trump as US president. This is a cause …

US national peace and security in its immediate geo-political sphere of influence is increasingly at odds of being breached by a network of anti-American and proxy insurgents founded and connected to the Iranian regime. Iran has been increasing its network of influence in Latin America and is currently using Venezuela as a sanctuary for Hezbollah and high-ranking regime operatives. Venezuela …

The present article is a critical analysis of the strategic challenges and political dilemmas that Israeli society will have to face under its the new Netanyahu-led government. The new Netanyahu-led coalition government of Israel is made of an alliance of hard-right nationalist and radical religious parties and embodies the sentiment of being the most right-wing pro-settler and expansionism government in …

The recent new deal between the Chinese state and Saudi Arabia offers some important hints to the balance of power in the region and the changing paradigm of power dynamics in it, signalling that the US´s has increasingly strained its relationship with the Saudi royal family ever since President Biden promised even before assuming office to punish the Saudi Kingdom …