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        <title><![CDATA[Restoring world order through diplomacy]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Historically, in the world of multiple sovereignties before the commencement of the Cold War, it was the balance-of-power system that brought stability into international politics:...]]></description>
        <author>Solly Rakgomo</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[The need for digital diplomacy to prevent conflict in Africa]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Digital platforms, powered by social media, satellite technology, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), have the potential to significantly enhance the AU’s ability...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why African states are joining BRICS]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Without much doubt, African States are increasingly showing skyline interest in BRICS+, primarily due to its distinctive-focused objectives, including global peace, the strategic d...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Bribery disadvantages African poor people]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the words of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, “Corruption hurts the poor disproportionately diverting funds intended for development, undermining a government’s ability t...]]></description>
        <author>Solly Rakgomo</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[Africa’s maritime vulnerability]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The disruptions caused by Non-State Actors unbounded by international law and with access to stocks of standoff armaments pose fundamental challenges to Africa’s security and econo...]]></description>
        <author>Solly Rakgomo</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[The contagion of military coups in Africa]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The recent rise in coups in the continent is a reflection of a declining regional and international willingness to enforce anti-coup norms.It was between 1960 and 2000 when coup d’...]]></description>
        <author>Solly Rakgomo</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[Misinterpreting ethnic conflicts in Africa]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This piece challenges that notion arguing that a re-diagnosis of the underlying drivers to ethnic violence can lead to more effective and sustainable responses. There is a general...]]></description>
        <author>Solly Rakgomo</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nightmare of private military contractors]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The rise in transnational terrorism in the Horn of Africa, the Sahel, the SADC region and the Great Lakes region has made the continent to be engulfed in political bushfires that h...]]></description>
        <author>Solly Rakgomo</author>
        <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2023 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Where did things go wrong?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I guess it is an appropriate question that can be applied in the context of the place of boarding public schools in our ever changing education landscape. Undoubtedly, boarding sch...]]></description>
        <author>Tshwarelo Hosia</author>
        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2023 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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