Pay with plastic bottles for the public transport tickets and make a speech at the UN under the age of 10! The first UNITE 2030 Earth Action Summit has been held. May 20th, 2020 was a milestone for UNITE 2030 since it marked the day of the Earth Action Summit Read more…
The Civil War Rages on in Yemen When Saudi Arabia intervened in Yemen’s civil war in March 2015, they hoped to quickly defeat the Houthis, an Iranian-backed group that had swept down from the northern highlands to seize the capital, Sana’a. The bloody civil war has been raging for 5 years now, Read more…
“Seven Years of Famine” – The Impact of Coronavirus on Food Insecurity On the 20th of April, the Global Report on Food Crises 2020 was released by the Food Security Information Network (FSIN) and its 16 partner organizations. This year, 71 countries are included in the report. The criteria were to have Read more…
In part one, I wrote about three strongmen leaders ruling over countries with many controversies. In the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte established a military task force to stop the coronavirus. Rather than helping the general public, the government is taking care of the elites, to ensure his political position. Make no Read more…
Every 5 years, Polish citizens head to the voting booths and elect the President of their country. Although like most other European countries, the President does not have as much power as the Prime Minister, he is still the Head of State of the Republic of Poland and heads the Read more…
The internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) has rejected a unilateral ceasefire offered by the renegade general, Khalifa Haftar, in Libya. A spokesperson for the leader of the Libyan National Army (LNA) declared the truce on the occasion of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The announcement comes after the LNA, Read more…
A crisis in progress… While 1004 medical officers were tested positive out of 3980 patients as of May 2 (one of the highest rates worldwide of infected medical personnel), the reduced income sources received by the government have contributed to a budget deficit of almost 25 % for the year 2020 (approx. 16 billion Moldovan Lei Read more…
People who once settled where the water was abundant are now inclined to migrate to areas that are less well endowed, guided by other economic forces. Even as NASA scours the universe for signs of extraterrestrial life, their motto is: “Follow the water”! For a few decades, a growing literature has wondered whether Read more…
Behind the scenes Western political analysts usually portray Putin as a mastermind chess player, who anticipates his enemies’ moves and is always ahead of them by some steps. In reality, Putin is rather a tactician than a strategist, as he plays much more according to the judo’s rather than the Read more…
Our lives have been changed significantly recently. The COVID-19 virus affected all of us. Most of the states in the world conceded that the coronavirus is the biggest global test since World War II and are trying to do what they can to prevent this contagious virus. Some of their Read more…