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Kenneth Mohammed @Kenjoemo
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It’s no surprise that an AI-faked presidential speech condemning foreign exploitation went viral –...

Attributed to the president of Namibia, the speech is still being shared as citizens across Africa and the Caribbean cry out for moral leaders willing to speak uncomfortable truths

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Cuba’s doctors were a lifeline for the world. Now the Caribbean is shamefully complicit in the US...

For decades, Cuban doctors have served the Caribbean’s most marginalised. Now, as Cuba faces its own crisis, the region looks away, waiting on Trump’s approval

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Don’t look at who voted to call the slave trade ‘the gravest crime’, look at who didn’t | Kenneth...

The UK and EU countries who abstained when Ghana’s UN resolution was adopted may soon find it harder to sustain the same old script on reparations

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Corruption is no longer envelopes of cash – now it is about who is being shielded and who is being...

Trump has attacked judges and weakened global safeguards. Someone needs to stand up to the US and stop the erosion of democracy

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Cricket, football, athletics: the Caribbean’s sporting success is extraordinary – so why does it...

As the men’s football World Cup looms, the region’s prowess is often seen in terms of inspirational hardship, but the political will to treat sport strategically is lacking

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Sanctions are not a humane alternative to bombs. They are economic warfare with civilians as...

In the Caribbean and Latin America, the lived reality of these measures – presented in the language of diplomacy – is stark

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Trinidad and Tobago went all in with the US – it will prove a costly misjudgment | Kenneth Mohammed

Aligning itself with Washington and casually dismissing regional diplomacy has left the dual island nation isolated amid the Venezuela crisis, says Caribbean analyst Kenneth Mohammed

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In 2025 reparations became central to UK ties with the Caribbean and Africa – so how do we move...

This year was a pivotal one, in which the issue of restorative justice began to frame the UK’s post-imperial relationship with the global south

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Tanzania’s descent into repression is a stark warning of how fast Africa’s progress can be eroded |...

When she became president, Samia Suluhu Hassan offered hope. But the country’s sudden democratic decay is more than just a national tragedy

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Forget petty bribes, ‘state capture’ is corruption so deep it is shaping the rules of democracy...

Beating the dangerous influence of private interests on governments requires independent judges, journalists and a courageous civil society

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As US warships prowl the Caribbean, our region must hold fast against Trump’s gaslighting

American attacks have killed more than 14 people they claim were drug traffickers in our waters. Now our islands are at risk of being dragged into a manufactured conflict we are ill-equipped to endure

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Trust in the US is eroding. Now the question isn’t if the dollar will lose supremacy: it’s when |...

De-dollarisation is not a threat to global stability. Countries are simply questioning the rules of a game long rigged in Washington’s favour

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The global south needs more than tinkering at a conference: debt forgiveness is the only fair way |...

Next week, a UN summit in Seville will discuss the future of financing the world’s poorer nations. It should first concede that the old methods have failed

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‘I don’t want freebies’: outgoing AfDB head on why investment, not aid, will shape Africa’s future

After a decade helming the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina hands over to his successor this week. He explains his optimism despite the continent’s challenges

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Emboldened by Trump, the ‘liberal’ UK is giving free rein to its colonial impulses | Kenneth...

Faced with fading empires’ petulance, the global south must draw a red line under its relationship with them and forge new ties based on mutual respect

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Handouts are never free. The cruel US aid freeze is an opportunity for the Caribbean | Kenneth...

Trump’s orders will cause hardship but it could allow small nations to face up to their dependence on a coercive oligarchy

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Trinidad and Tobago’s streets are a bloodbath. Yet all our politicians offer are platitudes |...

A state of emergency has been declared amid unprecedented gun violence, but no one in our stagnating government is taking responsibility

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Trinidad and Tobago declares state of emergency after weekend of violence

A spate of murders has taken the Caribbean nation’s total to 623 in 2024, of which nearly half were gang related and almost all linked to organised crime, say police

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No, Robert Jenrick, former colonies do not owe a ‘debt of gratitude’ for Britain’s legacy of...

As a historian, the UK conservative party leadership candidate should know that the only debt owed is one of accountability and reparation

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