Is the community a purveyor of revolutionary change, a defender of the status quo, or a combination of both?
We are in the Muslim month of Muharram, a time of mourning for Shia Muslims, when they commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein. Over the centuries, rituals during Muharram have been crucial in maintaining and energizing the Shia collectivity and helping to perpetuate its narratives, myths, and worldviews.
Preface
The text has aim to investigate the situation of female representation in politics in the industrialized contemporary Western democracies. Though women are more and more visible in politics, we can not yet say they have taken an equal position compared to men. Of course, they have had to take a long road and there is certainly a positive evolution, but there are still some mechanisms that lead to different kinds and levels of political discrimination.
At 3 a.m. on July 26, 2023, the presidential guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum in Niamey, the capital of Niger. Troops, led by Brigadier General Abdourahmane Tchiani closed the country’s borders and declared a curfew. The coup d’état was immediately condemned by the Economic Community of West African States, by the African Union, and by the European Union.
Understanding the actions and justifications behind territorial colonial behavior by the UN Security Council since 1945.
One of the underlying principles of the UN Charter is the protection of the sovereign rights of states. Yet since 1945, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (Soviet Union/Russia, France, UK, U.S., and China) have consistently used military force to undermine this notion. And while acts of seizing territory have grown rare, ongoing military domination allows imperialism to further manifest through economic, political, and cultural control.
The moniker often given to Iran, that of being the quintessential “survivalist state”, is not without merit. With both its highs and lows, Tehran has been at odds with the US since the 1979 revolution, and yet maintained a level of stability despite all challenges.
A dispute about engraving civilians’ names on a monument to deceased fighters in a small Kosovo town highlighted a wider problem: although most people killed in the 1998-99 war were civilians, most war memorials commemorate guerrillas.
La Russie cherche à gagner de l’influence en Afrique de plusieurs manières, qu’il s’agisse de campagnes de désinformation ou de l’envoi de mercenaires de Wagner.
Une étude récemment publiée
par le Centre d’études stratégiques de l’Afrique, montre que la Russie tente de saper la démocratie dans plus de deux douzaines de pays africains. Les principaux outils utilisés sont l’ingérence politique, les revendications extraconstitutionnelles de pouvoir et la désinformation. Dans certains cas, ces outils fonctionnent.
Le développement des liens avec les pays africains est l’une des priorités invariables de la Fédération de Russie, a déclaré jeudi le président russe Vladimir Poutine à son homologue ougandais Yoweri Museveni.
Ce dernier a invité la Russie à participer à l’exploration pétrolière en Afrique de l’Est.
Ces petits monticules de sable qui parsèment cette plage du nord du Sénégal sont en fait des tombes. Les habitants de la petite ville de pêcheurs de Saint-Louis arrivent à les distinguer grâce à quelques indices. Nombre de ces jeunes enterrés ici ont voulu rejoindre l’Europe par la mer.
Deux agences onusiennes ont exprimé leur préoccupation concernant la sécurité et le bien-être de centaines de migrants, réfugiés et demandeurs d’asile en Tunisie, qui restent bloqués dans des conditions désastreuses après leur éloignement vers des zones reculées et désolées près des frontières du pays avec la Libye et l’Algérie.