Guinea, another country under military rule since 2021, has also shared its support of Niger's junta and urged ECOWAS to "come to its senses". What is ECOWAS? Standing for the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS is a trade bloc consisting of West African ...
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The Central Mediterranean route connects North African countries, specifically Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt, with the European states of Italy and – in much lower numbers - Malta and Greece. The route has been used at least since the early 2000s, but seasonal movements intensified between ...
Western countries underwent a long "peculiar historical process" in democracy, which is precisely why the West should see that its model "cannot be exported and imposed in other parts of the world, as the experiences in Afghanistan or Iraq or in the Middle East have shown again in recent yea...
the West for years has made electoral democracy "the one-size-fits-all benchmark" for democratic rule worldwide and labeled non-Western values and cultural norms "anathema to democracy," he said, noting that "the coercive transplant of electoral democracy, either through military intervention or ...
One African diplomat said the EU needed to remain engaged as the issue of migration was not going to go away. Even if Europe were to agree a shared approach, it lacks the military capacity and political relationships to help because the Sahelian countries don't want Western input, the diplo...
41 It is pro-bably for these, and other, reasons that many African countries are wary of being counted in the Saudi, Iranian, Turkish or any other external camp.The following discussion of the Saudi projection of the Wahhabi doctrine and, very recently, of ‘moderate Islam’ on West ...
Rather, Berlin was afraid other countries could use itagainst the German Empire for propaganda purposes. But above all, military con-siderations demanded a change in strategy: the existing one was failing, defeatedin the last instance by the sheer vastness of the land and by the epidemics of ...
This reality extends back to imperial times. When most of Africa and much of Asia were under European rule, the colonizers invested little in basic education. As late as 1950, according to United Nations data, illiteracy was pervasive in Europe’s African and Asian colonies. A...
In that country, democracy suffered a huge setback when on August 18, the military seized power and truncated civil rule. Since then, we have seen frenetic efforts by leaders of the Economic Community of ...