America plans to “close the book” on its 20-year war in Afghanistan — but the departure of US troops will usher in an uncertain chapter for Afghan civilians. US President Joe Biden announced .Wednesday he would end America’s longest war by September 11, deeming the two-decade-long conflict in Afghanistan no longer an American priority. “We cannot continue the cycle of …

Dawit was watching television at a relative’s one-room apartment in Axum, a historic city in Ethiopia’s war-torn, northern Tigray region, in early March when a news bulletin flashed up on the screen. Graphic, unverified footage had surfaced of a mass killing near Dawit’s hometown of Mahibere Dego, in a mountainous area of central Tigray. In the shaky video Ethiopian soldiers …

A Burkina Faso court charged former President Blaise Compaore in absentia on Tuesday in connection with the 1987 murder of then-President Thomas Sankara, one of the most infamous killings in Africa’s post-independence history. Sankara, a charismatic Marxist revolutionary often called “Africa’s Che Guevara,” was assassinated during a coup led by his former friend Compaore. Compaore went on to rule Burkina …

It was a kidnapping as brazen as it was unexpected. While the numbers are murky, more than 300 schoolboys are still missing after an attack on a boys’ school in northwest Nigeria nearly a week ago. A large number of attackers riding motorbikes ambushed the children at the school. “They said they were not here to rob us, that we …

How can the EU better handle irregular migration? Illegal immigration has been out of the EU´s toughest problems to handle recently, especially during the migration crisis of 2015, where more than 1 million migrants and asylum seekers from countries like Syria, Iraq or Pakistan arrived in the EU caused by events like the Syrian civil war. Irregular migration is caused …

Seven skiers, two climbers and a guide have died in five separate incidents after bad weather swept through the Alps region on Sunday.Five skiing victims, from France, Italy and Germany, were among a group of 14 who failed to reach a mountain cabin. Police confirmed two French skiers had died in separate incidents in the French Alps. An alarm had …

The Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 seemed at the time to be a major shift in how governments in North Africa were going to be ran, changing from autocratic regimes to democratic ones. Nevertheless, after ten years this has not been the case, as most of these countries are either suffering a raging civil war or a new dictatorship has …

President Donald Trump’s stunning decision to meet Kim Jong Un sets up the prospect of the most mind-boggling diplomatic summit in modern history. Trump, a reality star turned convention busting President, has dubbed Kim “Little Rocket Man” and threatened to rain fire and fury over North Korea, raising fears of a devastating war across the world’s last Cold War frontier. …

Russia is in favor of an open and rules-based trade order to boost global growth, and sanctions imposed against Moscow are a “covert form” of protectionism, President Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying on Thursday ahead of a G20 summit in Germany. “I’m convinced that only open trade relations based on uniform norms and standards can stimulate growth of the …

The companies Nexter, ex-Giat Industries, in France, and KMW (Krauss MaffeiWegmann), in Germany, have started to merge on July 1. This will require a privatisation law in France,while KMW is a family-owned business. They will form a joint-venture owned at 50% by each side, with a « golden share » for the French state to protect specific activities such as weapons systems …