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UPSC Essentials | Daily subject-wise quiz : International Relations MCQs on Red Sea, Biofuture Platform and more (Week 117)
UPSC Essentials brings to you its initiative of subject-wise quizzes. These quizzes are designed to help you revise some of the most important topics from the static part of the syllabus. Attempt today’s subject quiz on International Relations to...
Volte-Face and the Ethiopian Predicament: Structural Crisis or Personal Despotism?
A Reflection on Prof. Messay Kebede’s and Amsal Woreta’s Divergent Diagnoses Sirak Zena July 7, 2025 Note on Balance and Scope: The length of each section in this reflection corresponds to the relative depth and volume of the original essays, not...

Poverty rising, aid falling: UN summit confronts crisis of global solidarity
PARIS, June 28 — The United Nations summit on financing for development gets underway Monday in Seville under a grim cloud: multiple conflicts, humanitarian crises and the shock disengagement of the United States. Here is an overview of the...

Migrants cast shadow on Starmer-Macron summit
LONDON - Britain and France are friends again following the rancour of Brexit, but the record number of irregular migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats remains a major point of friction. The issue will feature during a state visit...

Sulaiman Addonia: A novelist shaped by displacement and the redemptive power of art
Sulaiman Addonia is an Eritrean-Ethiopian novelist who lives in Brussels. His most recent novel, The Seers (2024), unspools in a single, 136-page paragraph, exploring the world of Hannah, an Eritrean refugee in London, and the redemptive power of...

Russia Unlocking Africa’s Food Security: Model of Connectivity and Collaboration
With geopolitical developments shaping the world, Africa is expectedly to change with the times. It has gone far, particularly with Russia, opening new directions in bilateral economic cooperation after their joint historic summits. It is also...

Russia Increases Fertilizers and Agricultural Exports to Africa
With geopolitical developments shaping the world, Africa is expectedly changing with the times. It has gone far, particularly with Russia, opened new directions in bilateral economic cooperation after their joint historic summits. It is also time...
Regional bloc warns of heavy rainfall in Horn of Africa from July to September
NAIROBI, June 26 (Xinhua) -- The period from July to September is expected to bring heavy rainfall across the larger part of the Horn of Africa region, the Climate Prediction and Applications Center (ICPAC) of the Intergovernmental Authority on...

I visited all 54 countries in Africa my least favourite is so dusty you can't even breathe
A travel vlogger who has had the pleasure of visiting all 197 countries, including all 54 of those in Africa, has ranked his favourite places on the continent – including his least favourite. Drew Binsky, a YouTube star, has documented every step...

Ethiopian politicians can learn from Japan either “Japan endet Seletench” or “Medmer”
The relationship between Ethiopia and Japan is characterized by a unique and historically significant partnership, fostered through intellectual diplomacy, educational exchange, and cultural appreciation. A pivotal figure in this bilateral...

Hail Ethiopia, Hail Peace!
In the 1940s, following the defeat of the Allied powers in WWII, Eritrea became a British protectorate. The 1950s marked a decade of federation with Ethiopia. The 1960s ushered in the era of revolution, which by the 1970s turned into a period of...

Mai-Habar Technical School Graduates 140 Students
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) MASSAWA, Eritrea, June 25, 2025/APO Group/ -- Mai-Habar Technical School today graduated 140 students, including 58 females. The graduates completed two years of theoretical and practical training in auto...

French police slash migrant boats at sea amid surging channel crossings
In a controversial escalation of efforts to deter illegal migration across the English Channel, French police have reportedly begun using knives to puncture inflatable boats used by migrants seeking to reach Britain. The unprecedented tactic,...

Edwin Cortes: Prefers being a small Puerto Rican than big American, By Owei Lakemfa
Cortes told me that as at today, his country is neither a state nor allowed independence. In the latest situation, the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation on 16 June entertained Hearings for the independence of Puerto Rico. Perhaps...

Iran’s desire for nuclear weapons has only been spurred on by US strikes – no matter what Trump says
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

Dune: Awakening's Huge 1.1.10.00 Update Has a Long List of Patch Notes
Dune: Awakening developer Funcom has deployed a raft of changes to prove it's responding nimbly to player feedback. Previously, Funcom launched Dune: Awakening's Public Test Client and then extended the PvE zone of the Deep Desert from about 10%...

Africa must help steer the world away from deep-sea mining
Africa must help steer the world away from deep-sea mining Unilateral deep-sea mining, such as that planned by the Trump administration, could have grave impacts on Africa. Under President Donald Trump, the United States’ (US) rush for critical...

Record number of lone children crossing Channel on small boats
Alex BishBBC South East Investigations Team ShareSave Some 70 children arrived into Kent County Council care on Wednesday, the most in a single day, the council says A record number of lone children have arrived on small boats and gone into the...

Why Trump and Israel have only encouraged Iran to go nuclear
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

Edwin Cortes: Prefers being a small Puerto Rican than big American
To be a citizen of the United States, the universal superpower, largest economy, the world policeman, and God’s own country, is an opportunity millions across the earth would grab with both hands. So, to find a man who, as a right, does not want...