The Brief The Brief: Issue Forty-Seven 21 Oct 202426 Oct 2024 South America Brazil lifts ban on Twitterby Daniel Cramphorn Image Credit: Wikipedia Inc. (Wikimedia Commons) In August, Brazil became the first democracy to ban the social networking site Twitter, also…
The Brief the brief: issue thirty-five 14 Feb 202314 Feb 2023 Africa The bear and the lion: Sergey Lavrov visits Bamakoby Neo Allert image credit: Sertion (Wikimedia Commons) Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov embarked on a two-day trip to Mali last…
The Brief the brief: issue twenty-seven 31 Oct 2022 Africa Mercenaries worsen the security situation in Maliby Herb Alexander image credit: M.Bitton (Wikimedia Commons) On 27 October a senior US state department official blamed the deteriorating situation in Mali on the…
The International Extravaganza summer extravaganza: issue three 18 Jul 202218 Jul 2022 SOUTHERN AFRICA The potential downfall of Cyril Ramaphosa by Connor Crout image credit: GovernmentZA (Flickr) On 15 July 300 protesters, most of them members of the ruling African National Congress…
The Brief the brief: issue twenty-three 16 May 2022 AFRICA A new wave of terrorism by Neo Allert image credit: Lojwe (Wikimedia Commons) There has been yet another attack in West Africa: with eight soldiers having been killed and…
The International Extravaganza YGA’s international extravaganza: no. 7 9 Aug 202124 Jan 2022 New Kyrgyz ‘false information’ law worries some by Joe Mawer image credit: memyselfaneye (Pixabay) In a region riddled with dictatorships, from Karimov to Nazarbayev, Kyrgyzstan stands almost unique to have…
The Brief the brief: issue three 14 Jun 202113 Oct 2022 AFRICA Social media shutdown in Nigeriaby Harry Padoan Recently, President Muhammadu Buhari’s government banned Twitter’s operations in Nigeria for an indefinite period. The nation had formerly boasted a user base…
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