Azerbaijan's authoritarian president, Ilham Aliyev, is an unlikely champion for the victims of French colonialism. But as chairman of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), that is precisely how he is ...

The debate about Chinese neocolonialism is long standing, but has re-emerged with new force for two reasons. One is the People’s Republic of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which anticipates ...

On February 25, 2023, in response to the Chinese government’s proposal for peace negotiations in the Ukraine conflict, Joe Biden stated that the idea of China negotiating the outcome of the war was ...

There is but one step between Vladimir Putin’s office and the Duma in central Moscow. It was at the Russian parliament’s headquarters, just a few metres from the Kremlin, that the conference ...

Russian leader Vladimir Putin said Friday that he’s annexing 15% of Ukraine, and he claimed the illegal act must be done—among several seemingly odd justifications—as part of a wider fight against ...

Is neo-colonialism in the Gulf of Guinea the answer to West Africa’s maritime crime crisis? In October 2020, China’s transport ministry established an ad hoc workgroup to lay down precautionary ...

Neocolonialism today manifests as sanctions, economic blockades, and political interference, Speaker of the National Assembly of the Parliament of the Republic of Zimbabwe Jacob Mudenda said during ...

Standing on conquered ground, Sergey Lavrov took the opportunity to fire rhetorical missiles at his Western opponents, mocking their neo-colonialism in Africa. From Bamako, Moscow’s new stronghold on ...

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Decentralised, bottom-up, solar-and-storage grids will be crucial in Sub-Saharan Africa’s energy transition. Image: EDF There has been a noticeable paradigm shift in the way the world is thinking ...