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Ramaphosa at last in power
Sabine Cessou
, March 2018
Jacob Zuma has been forced out and Cyril Ramaphosa is de facto South African president, but he is faced with recession, falling expectations and a declining vote for the ANC (…)
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Macron going for broke
Serge Halimi
, March 2018
A former finance minister under a socialist government, who later founded a neoliberal party in his own image, described how to create a market society: ‘Do not try to advance one step at a time. Define (...)
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Egypt after its ’Arab Spring’
March 2018
At prayer: during the wait to hear the results of Egypt’s 2012 presidential elections, a military helicopter hovers over Tahrir Square. cc @wessam_deweny Egyptians go to the polls on 26 March to elect (...)
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A small victory in Notre-Dame-des-Landes
Outside in
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Ed Emery
, 14 March 2018
Campaigning against the airport Photo: cc Non à l’aéroport Notre-Dame-des-Landes (NNDL) There were two riot police in full battle gear, moving backwards down a country lane and guided by two others to (...)
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Event: The UN and the future of multilateralism in the new world order
March 2018
Continuing our series of debates between NYU and Le Monde diplomatique, speakers at our next event include Ambassador (...)
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March
2018
…
South Africa
, goodbye Zuma;
Africa
, power to a continent; since Trump,
Saudi
policies fail;
Egypt
, seven years after Tahrir;
Trump’s US
, nuclear is back;
Cuba
’s army pays its way;
India special report
, women farmers on the up, excluded are still poor;
Paris
picks up from
Chicago
;
London
’s ghost tower blocks;
Billingsgate
’s feast of fish…
Who has the power
Aurélien Bernier
, March 2018
Africa’s electricity generation capacity equals Germany’s: 160,000MW (160bn watts), although two-thirds of that capacity is in the Maghreb and in South Africa, the only (...)
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America’s phony war
Open Page
•
William J. Astore
• FROM
TomDispatch, 15 March 2018
Overseas, the United States is engaged in real wars in which bombs are dropped, missiles are launched, and people (...)
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India’s excluded stay poor
Dalel Benbabaali
, March 2018
Himanshu Vyas · Hindustan Times · Getty Dalits and Adivasis are contributing to India’s economic boom, even though growth has worked against them. The Adivasi (meaning indigenous) are ‘tribal’ peoples, and (...)
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Africa turns up the lights
A. B.
, March 2018
Hundreds of millions of Africans still have no electricity. That, and the continent’s vast renewables potential, has encouraged headlong privatisation, and big western energy firms and Chinese investors are (...)
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London’s emptying towers
Rowland Atkinson
, March 2018
Amid the uncertainty of Brexit, half the luxury apartments built in London last year haven’t sold. Could the city become haunted by ghost towers even as the housing crisis (...)
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Paris picks up from Chicago
Clément Petitjean
, March 2018
Hillary Clinton wrote a thesis on Saul Alinsky and Barack Obama learned from his social mobilisation techniques. Now his method has reached France.
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Home-grown jihadists
Akram Belkaïd
&
Dominique Vidal
, 5 January 2018
To combat radicalisation, it is crucial to prevent convergence between Salafism and jihadism. But French experts disagree on how far society, a colonising history and Islam itself (...)
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The ANG brigades
Nicolas Dot-Pouillard
, 5 January 2018
Establishing links between past and present is a priority for the Arab Nationalist Guard (ANG), so the names it has given to its four brigades have symbolic value. The Jules Jammal (...)
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Food’s Disneyland
Jean-Baptiste Malet
, 5 January 2018
Bologna has a new theme park promoting Italy’s agribusiness and related industries. It’s there to sell food, and embellished stories about food manufacture. FICO Eataly World, which (...)
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Honeybees for hire
Raúl Guillén
, 5 January 2018
The reason why saving bees is a more popular cause than saving the crested newt is their role as crop pollinators. The calls for a ban on some pesticides are motivated less by a (...)
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maps
Japan’s bluefin tuna
Agnès Stienne, January 2018
Iran’s far-reaching Shia networks
Cécile Marin, January 2018
Yemen: humanitarian disaster of Saudi intervention
Cécile Marin, December 2017
Israel’s quest for influence in Africa
Cécile Marin, December 2017
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A small victory in Notre-Dame-des-Landes
E. E.
, 14 March 2018
There were two riot police in full battle gear, moving backwards down a country lane and guided by two others to stop them falling in the mud. Ahead of them, hedgers and ditchers (...)
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A way forward for Greece and Macedonia?
Michael Goodyear
, 8 March 2018
For over two decades Macedonia has resisted Greek pressure to change its name. But that could now change. There are three reasons. First, Macedonia has a new prime minister, Zoran (...)
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Oxfam under the spotlight
David McDowall
, 26 February 2018
There is certainly a case to be made that the Age of Development will prove more damaging than the Age of Colonialism. But this has little to do with the scandal Oxfam is currently (...)
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Chinese New Year, but where’s the money?
Peter Bengtsen
, 12 February 2018
‘We drove more than 2000 km from Beijing to Shenzhen and handed out over 10,000 questionnaires along the way,’ said Wei Wei, director of the Chinese labour NGO Little Bird, after a (...)
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