🍃 | The EU considers conflict drivers, #climate stresses, and democracy issues largely in isolation from each other. But none of the issues can be understood or tackled separately from the others, argue @YoungsRichard, @Farinha_Ric & al. 👇 carnegieendowment.org/resear…

In Hindsight: The Financing of AU-led Peace Support Operations: What Next?, December 2024 Monthly Forecast : Security Council Report securitycouncilreport.org/mo…

The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar while we stand by and watch is OVER. We require a commitment from these Countries that they will neither create a new BRICS Currency, nor back any other Currency to replace the mighty U.S. Dollar or, they will face 100% Tariffs, and should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. Economy. They can go find another “sucker!” There is no chance that the BRICS will replace the U.S. Dollar in International Trade, and any Country that tries should wave goodbye to America.

A bird's-eye view of South African government spending. Read more here: statssa.gov.za/?p=17864 #StatsSA #GovZaUpdates #servicedeliveryza

Any new forms of practical cooperation between Russia and Africa will require funding from the Kremlin, currently difficult to achieve while the Russian economy is dedicated to the war effort in Ukraine, writes @Komin_mo. @ECFRWiderEurope buff.ly/3VarkxY

Russian meddling at the UN is no reason for European diplomats to resign from efforts to protect civilians from the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, writes @Jonas_Horner. @ECFRAfrica buff.ly/419eiEK

Most Germans want military spending to rise significantly to 3-3.5% of GDP or even higher, according to the latest #TheBerlinPulse survey. Just a few years ago, it was 1.2% of GDP. koerber-stiftung.de/site/ass…

Non-alignment is a strategic approach to navigating the polarities and complexities of international relations, and to this day, the Non-Alignment Movement’s Heads of State and Government Summit’s Durban Declaration of 1998 remains instructive. For a country grappling with high rates of inequality, poverty and unemployment, it is crucial not to pin its interests solely on one side of the geopolitical spectrum.