Rose Lewis Parks, who was forty-two years old at the time before December 1, 1955, was not in the spotlight, as her activist activity in the civil rights movement or in other associations and organizations that represented a rejection of the racist Jim Crow laws did not symbolically crystallize until after her famous incident in Montgomery. Alabama when she refused to give up her seat in the colored section of the bus to a white passenger after the white section ran out of seats. Today, December 1, 2020, marks 65 years since that incident, which represented an inspiration for anti-apartheid…
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Everyone is following with interest what is happening in Ethiopia these days, the war raging there because of the Tigray region, and the violations that have increased in recent hours as a result of the continuous aerial bombardment on the region, which makes the residents of the north vulnerable to killing and displacement. In the beginning, the Tigray Liberation Front is the one that led the political scene in Ethiopia from 1991 to 2018. , which led to the emergence of the Revolutionary Democratic Front, and it did not leave the scene until Abiy Ahmed came to power in 2018.…
The right to property is one of the natural rights with which a person was born, and no one can deprive him of it. In fact, the right to property is one of the most important foundations on which modern civilization and its accompanying development were built. If we talk about the right to property as a natural right, then the right to housing is one of the human rights. In Egypt, the right to property and housing are closely linked to each other because for a large segment of people, housing is one of the forms of safe investment…
Before it was postponed to the next session, the draft law on “regulating the Fatwa House” became a fertile topic for the Qatari media and fundamentalist universities to create new religious wars in the heart of the Egyptian street. These merchants – merchants of strife – did not stop describing the law as a war on religion and a demolition of the Al-Azhar institution, trying Thus, inciting the Egyptian people and charging them against the Egyptian state, which is striving for true religious reform that would eradicate terrorist ideas from their roots that strike all religious institutions. After postponing the…
After his promises of democratic transformation and the launch of civil liberties and freedom of the press, and after he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize as a result of his efforts in maintaining peace with Eritrea and his role in Sudanese reconciliation, and after hopes rose to the sky towards the new African leader whom the world aspires to emerge with Ethiopia as a pioneering democratic experience in Africa, he is Abiy. Ahmed is the man who amazed the world twice, the first time with that young political face with the words of love, goodness and peace, and the…
The Dragon in the Upper Nile…China’s role in financing and building Ethiopia’s dams We spoke before about the Belt and Road Initiative and the Chinese debt trap policies that depend on granting African countries rich in resources or in a strategic location large and soft loans in exchange for financing useless infrastructure projects carried out by Chinese companies. Usually, these countries are unable to repay the loans and are threatened. Either pay or seize the assets of these countries, and in the end the African countries turn into countries affiliated with China politically and economically. Today we will talk more…
We coincided with China’s 70th anniversary celebrationsMany may not know that there are two Chinese republics, and today we will shed light on the “other” Republic of China. Some people may not know that Taiwan’s official name is the Republic of China. Before 1949, it was an integral part of the Greater China, a founding member of the United Nations and one of the five permanent members of the Security Council until 1971, when membership became the People’s Republic of China. In 1949, a civil war broke out, resulting in the Communists taking control of the part known today as the…
Following the patterns and destinations of Chinese financing within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative countries, we find that among the 68 countries participating in the initiative, about 33 countries have a low credit rating and less than investment grade, we find that China is financing investments at low interest rates in high credit risk countries. There are 31 Belt and Road Initiative countries whose sovereign debts are classified between very bad and countries that are not classified at all, such as Iran, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. This means that the Chinese government knows in advance that the chances…
In 2013, during the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to both Kazakhstan and India, he announced his vision to revive the ancient Silk Road, which was the main corridor for trade between Asia and Europe. The Chinese leader’s vision was quickly crystallized for a giant global initiative under the name (One Road, One Belt). Then It was renamed to be called (the Belt and Road Initiative) to avoid the negative impact of the previous name, which clearly reflects that the Chinese approach is within the framework of a unilateral proactive strategy to reshape the global system and its balances…
We continue talking about alternative routes to the Suez Canal and review together the second routeArctic Silk RoadSince the beginning of the 2000s, as the pace of ice melting accelerated as a result of climate change, Russia began to exploit the shipping route across the Polar Ocean to connect Russia and Europe. In 2013, China joined as an observer member of the Polar Council, the organization concerned with managing the Arctic and the Arctic Circle. At the end of 2017, during the visit of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, both the Chinese and Russian Prime Ministers announced their support for…