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There are straightforward ways to improve engagement toward shared climate and nature goals COMMENT | SIMON ZADEK | From Russia’s war against Ukraine to America’s rivalry with China, tectonic geopolitical shifts have shaken multilateralism in recent years. While many of the consequences from surging food and energy prices to the rising …

  Geopolitics is once again threatening to break international order lacking strong political foundations COMMENT | Robert Skidelsky | Is the world economy globalising or deglobalising? The answer would have seemed obvious in 1990. Communism had just collapsed in Central and Eastern Europe. In China, Deng Xiaoping was unleashing capitalist enterprise. And …

Experts discuss how to put Africa’s high education on a global scale Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | During the second day of the 5th edition of the Kampala Geopolitics conference, experts discussed how Africa’s high education can compete on a global scale. While speaking during a panel discussion under the …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | There is a risk of geopolitical fragmentation, as geopolitics turn into geo-economics with negative impacts, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said Friday. “Emerging markets and developing countries have stressed that for them, it is paramount that they have the opportunity to drive …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. THE LAST WORD From Kerala with love: A journey to a South Indian state and the contradictions in its egalitarian ideals COVER STORY Museveni’s relation with Biden’s America: The key recent events that matter COMMENTS Sexual …

Biden was clearly elected by the vibrant and enterprising American people whom I love and respect so much. So it is fair to say that let him preside over them, not the rest of us COMMENT | Hussein Lumumba Amin | With all due respect, it is quite concerning to …

✳ DAY 1 – Stronger Together? Why and How the COVID-19 Pandemic Should Help Us Re-Imagine Subsidiarity and Solidarity for a Better World Oct 18 ✳ DAY 2 – Women and Power; Reshaping of Foreign Policy Oct 21 ✳ DAY 3 – Oct 23 Geopolitics of the Fourth Industrial Revolution …

Kampala, Uganda | LOUIS JADWONG | Veteran Ugandan journalist, publisher and analyst Charles Onyango-Obbo has explained why the world will not just sit back and watch as resource-rich Africa does nothing productive with its assets. Quoting former Ugandan politician Eriya Kategaya, in what Obbo described as the ‘Kategaya doctrine’, and his …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Kampala Geopolitics Conference 2019 had it all on day one.  African and global politics, debate and Intellectualism rolled in a few hours….and that is before an even more promising day two, due Friday at Makerere University. The conference was “…fired by the most impressive and energetic moderation …

Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Starting October 26-27, Uganda will host the inaugural ‘Kampala Geopolitics Conference’ at Makerere University, Kampala. Over 100 speakers from various countries including France, Germany, South Africa, Kenya, South Sudan and Uganda will discuss 21 topics vital to global concerns before hundreds in the audience, the …