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Can Africa Prioritize And Address Its Food Security Challenges? – OpEd

October 11, 2022 by M Barbu

Global food security, especially in Africa, has been in the media publications these past few months. While a few outspoken African leaders shifted blames to Russia-Ukraine crisis, others focus on spending state budget to import food to calm rising discontent among the population. Some experts and international organizations have also expressed the fact that African leaders have to adopt import substitution mechanisms and use their financial resources on strengthening agricultural production systems.

Putin’s Annexation Of Ukrainian Territory Confronts Moscow Patriarchate With Difficult Choice – OpEd

October 11, 2022 by M Barbu

It has been the longstanding policy of the Moscow Patriarchate that the borders of what it calls its canonical territory are independent of any changes in the political borders within that space. As a result, it did not move to absorb Russian Orthodox churches in Abkhazia and South Ossetia after 2008 or in Ukraine’s Crimea after 2014.

Russia unleashes biggest attacks in Ukraine in months

October 11, 2022 by M Barbu

Russia retaliated Monday for an attack on a critical bridge by unleashing its most widespread strikes against Ukraine in months, a lethal barrage that smashed civilian targets, knocked out power and water, shattered buildings and killed at least 14 people.

Energie: une crise qui vient de loin

October 11, 2022 by M Barbu

La crise énergétique n’est pas née des sanctions contre la Russie. Elle est la conséquence des délocalisations, de la spéculation sur les matières premières, de la politique européenne de la démographie…

Bulgaria’s ex-PM Borissov struggles to form anti-Putin coalition

October 10, 2022 by M Barbu

Former prime minister Boyko Borissov won the fourth parliamentary election in 18 months but is now finding it difficult to sell his anti-Putin coalition proposal as parties are concerned over his party’s poor record on corruption.

Russia: Sanctions prevent it from maintaining gas pipeline to Turkiye, Balkans

October 10, 2022 by M Barbu

Russia says that European sanctions block the energy transfer to Turkiye and Balkan region, Reuters reports.

According to the report, the Russian operator of a pipeline that supplies Turkiye and the Balkans with natural gas, South Stream Transport B.V, would suspend some maintenance and repair work, citing European Union sanctions, a move that threatens to deepen Europe’s energy crisis.

U.S. Presidents Refuse to Protect the U.S. from North Korea’s Nukes

October 10, 2022 by M Barbu

The U.S. has the power to stop North Korean missile tests but has chosen not to do so. This is true not only of the Biden administration but also its predecessors. The U.S. has continually decided to adopt feeble options.

Doshman and the Massive Protests in Iran

October 10, 2022 by M Barbu

After a stunning silence through two weeks of public protest and state violence, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khamenei delivered a spiteful attack on those who have been protesting on the streets of Tehran and many other major cities in the country.

Is Russia preparing to target vital Norwegian energy exports to Europe?

October 10, 2022 by M Barbu

For all the recent talk that Russian President Vladimir Putin might use nuclear weapons to hold onto Ukrainian territory, Russia may have already begun hybrid warfare against Norway and northern Europe, especially Germany, to exploit Europe’s energy needs over the coming winter.

Ukraine: In bid to create ‘Russian World,’ education was weaponized

October 10, 2022 by M Barbu

Ukrainians widely scoff at Moscow’s “Russian World” project, and often use the term derisively when describing the wholesale destruction wrought by Russia’s invasion of their country. Still education – and the teachers that shape the next generation of citizens – remains key to the fight for both sides.