Category: Global Politics
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🇧🇫🇲🇱🇳🇪🇷🇺 Russia to Deploy Strategic Communications Satellite for Sahel Alliance, Reshaping Regional Security and Influence
In a move signaling a major geopolitical realignment in West Africa, Russia has agreed to support Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger in developing a shared communications satellite. This initiative, spearheaded by Moscow, aims to create an independent orbital infrastructure for the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), directly challenging traditional Western hegemony in the region’s critical…
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🇱🇷 Fula Community Want National Recognition; Calls for Legislating Fula As An Official Ethnic Group in Liberia
MONROVIA – Fulanis in Liberia are seeking legislation that will make the tribe legitimately recognized as one of the official tribes in Liberia. The group said its contributions to national development and politics, including the economy as compared to other tribes, are outstanding and therefore should warrant full recognition. The Fulanis under the banner “Falanis…
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🇳🇬🇺🇸 Strategic Shift and Kinetic Action: The U.S. Approach Against the Islamic State in Nigeria
Nigeria’s domestic insecurity has increasingly been instrumentalized within U.S. foreign policy discourse. In November last year, President Donald Trump threatened direct kinetic intervention to counter a so-called “Christian genocide” in Nigeria. Despite these claims, insecurity is driven by overlapping and long-standing land disputes, herder-farmer tensions, communal violence, and organized crime, with the vast majority of…
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🇵🇦 Operation Just Cause, Colonial Logic: How the Panama Invasion Previewed the Weaponization of “Drug Wars” in the Global South
The 1989 US ouster of Manuel Noriega was less a noble drug bust and more a blueprint for how Washington would replace Cold War demons with new justifications for intervention, sovereignty violation, and political control. In the final days of 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the world heralded the end of the Cold…
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🇴🇲 Oman selects Airbus for reconfigurable OmanSat-1
It will provide telecommunications services across Oman, the Middle East, East Africa, and Asia, supporting government networks, private communications, broadband, maritime, and aero connectivity. Questions and Answers: What is OmanSat-1? OmanSat-1 is a fully reconfigurable, high-throughput Ka-band telecommunications satellite for Oman, capable of adjusting coverage and capacity while in orbit. Who is building the satellite?…
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🇺🇸 Alleged Latin Kings Gang Member Arrested on Federal Charges After Stealing Rifle From FBI Vehicle
MINNEAPOLIS – A prior convicted felon was charged in a criminal complaint today with being a felon in possession of a firearm and theft of government property after breaking into an FBI vehicle and stealing a rifle, announced United States Attorney Daniel N. Rosen. Rosen was joined in the announcement by Special Agent in Charge…
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🇻🇪🇺🇸 The Nobel & The Snub: A Venezuelan Opposition Leader’s Bold Gambit with Trump
The Nobel & The Snub: A Venezuelan Opposition Leader’s Bold Gambit with TrumpA Pan-African Perspective on Symbolism, Power, and the Politics of Recognition In a move rich with political theatre, Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Machado presented her 1985 Nobel Peace Prize medal to former US President Donald Trump during a recent meeting at the…
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🇱🇷Monrovia’s New U.S. Embassy: A Symbol of Strengthened Partnership and Regional Promise
Monrovia, Liberia — In recent years, the diplomatic landscape between Liberia and the United States has taken on a new dimension with sustained investments in infrastructure, policy engagement, and strategic cooperation. At the heart of this renewed relationship is the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia — a modern diplomatic mission that reflects both countries’ deep historical…
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🇬🇳 Hollywood film star couple receive Guinean citizenship through DNA testing
Hollywood stars Jonathan Majors and Meagan Good received Guinean citizenship in a ceremony on 9 January 2026 after tracing their roots through DNA testing. They were welcomed in Conakry and pledged to help Guinea using their influence. They will also visit historical slave sites in the Boké region as part of their visit. Hollywood stars…
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🇱🇷 U.S. citizen says encounter with ICE agents in Brooklyn Park landed him in the hospital
U.S. citizen claims Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents left him hurt and hospitalized after an encounter in the Twin Cities. Emmanuel Sackie, a Liberian-born, naturalized citizen, says he was stopped in the parking lot of Family Dollar in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, on Monday afternoon. Sackie says he was inside the store when his fiancée, Amanda…