Somalia Hosts Regional Summit To Coordinate Fight Against Al-Shabaab Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud hosted a summit of leaders from several neighbouring countries late in January to discuss the regional fight against the Islamist insurgent group Al-Shabaab. Present were Kenya’s William Ruto, Djibouti’s Ismail Omar Guelleh and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. They discussed a […]Read More

NEW DELHI: India and Egypt have given the bilateral relationship a leg-up by taking ties to the strategic level. This was agreed upon when Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, who was the chief guest at the Republic Day celebrations this year, held talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A host of agreements were also signed. […]Read More

Egypt has joined the list of India’s 30-odd “Strategic Partners”, marking the high point of President El-Sisi’s visit to this country. For exactly what that means, one has to turn to Prime Minister Modi’s statement on the MEA website where he is quoted as saying: “Under the India-Egypt Strategic Partnership, we will develop a long-term […]Read More

NEW DELHI: The Indian establishment remembers well the late President Mubarak of Egypt. It took him 13 years to find time to come to India to receive the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding, announced so many years earlier. Apparently, a protocol gaffe by India at a NAM summit had offended him deeply. Fortunately, fellow […]Read More

Suranjali Tandon, assistant professor at the National Institute of Public Finance & Policy and a specialist on international trade, responds to the recent announcement by East African nations that they would be looking to move towards a single currency in the next four years. In an interview with StratNews Global’s Opinion Editor Ashwin Ahmad, she […]Read More
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