Nigeria has closed its borders, following the examples of Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan and Eritrea. On March 21 2018, the African Continental Free Trade Movement was signed. The agreement was designed to strengthen the continent from the inside, without Africa’s previous...
Due to growing pressure on US companies to shift their bases from China, India has emerged as a frontrunner for US giants, such as Apple and Microsoft, to expand their bases. Taiwan’s Foxconn, the largest electronics contract manufacturer in the...
Clad in long sleeves and fluorescent vests – their cause’s de facto emblem – the heat must’ve been unbearable. But that’s precisely why Qatar’s beleaguered workforce had risen in protest. Forced to toil in 45°C sun, sometimes with little water,...
The escalation of the dispute related to the strait of Hormuz shows how vulnerable many of today’s oil routes are. What oil shipping routes and bottlenecks could become hotspots in the future? The dispute of oil shipments through the Strait...
The agreement of five Caspian states, for the governing of the Caspian Sea, has been touted as a very important deal for the region. After all, it moved to end the disagreements between some of the signatories. Yet, one year...
Iran has discovered a new natural gas reserve, according to a report from its oil ministry on Oct. 13. The underground field located in the southern province of Fars near the Persian Gulf, holds 19 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of...
Political stability, light regulation, the rule of law – that’s how you attract foreign business. Up until recently, nowhere did it better than Hong Kong. But the city’s dizzying decline into civil revolt has thrown two of the three –...
Pakistan is in the midst of a severe debt trap that is threatening the very fabric of the nation. With debt growing from China and the IMF and Pakistan’s resentment over the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects, the Imran Khan-led...
After a World Trade Organization ruling, the Trump administration announced it would impose tariffs on imports from Germany, France, Britain, Spain, and Italy. Officials in Washington are providing the European states until Oct. 18 before the tariffs kick in, a...
Thousands of indigenous demonstrators from all corners of Ecuador have travelled to the capital, Quito, to join the ongoing revolt that has gripped the nation for over a week. Some have come from as far as the Amazon forests to...