Liz Truss’s resignation as the leader of the Conservative party immediately triggers a contest to replace her as prime minister.
More than a quarter of a million people died of hunger in Somalia in 2011 – half of them children younger than five. The situation in Somalia in the coming months could be a great deal worse, despite global commitments to never let the 2011 famine happen again.
In 2009 a once quiet local Salafi group called Boko Haram became increasingly violent in north-east Nigeria and border communities of Niger, Chad and Cameroon. Its quest to forbid western education in the heavily Islamic region has led to the kidnapping of many school children, the slaughter of an estimated 2,200 teachers and the burning down of 1,400 schools. But the terrorist group was largely unknown on the world stage until the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls from the Nigerian town of Chibok in April 2014.
Oct. 17 marks the fourth anniversary of Canada’s recreational cannabis legalization. When The Cannabis Act was passed in 2018, Canada became the second country in the world to legalize the sale, possession and non-medical use of cannabis by adults.
Leaders are watched. They are scrutinised. If you don’t like the idea of being held accountable and having to answer for your actions then a leadership role is probably not for you.
Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the populist radical right party Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia), may have emerged as the victor in Italy’s recent elections, but she did so at the head of a delicately balanced coalition of parties – one that included Matteo Salvini, the man once spoken of in the same terms as Meloni herself.
Il y a 60 ans, le 16 octobre 1962, la Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) présentait au président John Fitzgerald Kennedy des preuves photographiques que les soviétiques étaient en train d’installer secrètement des missiles balistiques à Cuba, une île située à 150 kilomètres seulement des États-Unis. Ainsi débutait une crise majeure durant laquelle le monde est passé très près d’une guerre nucléaire – et qui résonne fortement avec les menaces actuelles du président russe Vladimir Poutine dans le cadre de la guerre en Ukraine.
Alors que les députés viennent de faire leur rentrée le lundi 3 octobre, une menace pèse sur l’Assemblée nationale, celle de la dissolution. Le président de la République a brandi cette arme dissuasive en cas de vote d’une motion de censure du Parlement. Depuis, les nombreuses passes d’armes renvoient dos à dos le déni de démocratie auquel se livre Emmanuel Macron en l’absence de majorité absolue et l’incapacité de l’Assemblée nationale à trouver un large consensus.
The Hollywood movie The Woman King, released in mid-September, became an immediate box-office success. The triumphs of the Agoodjies, the women warriors of the ancient Kingdom of Dahomey in today’s Benin, west Africa, are as magnificent as the public had anticipated. In this epic historical drama, African women take centre stage.
Danielle Smith rode a wave of Alberta populism to win the United Conservative Party leadership on the sixth ballot.
Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 this year, the Kremlin has sought by every means to minimise the reality of war. The description of the invasion as a “special operation” and persecution of anyone who dared call it by any other name is intended to underline the supposedly temporary and limited nature of the armed conflict. It seeks to blur the boundary between war and peace. This principle continued in Vladimir Putin’s speech on September 21, in which he announced a “partial mobilisation”.
Le film L’Événement (2021) d’Audrey Diwan est bien plus qu’une adaptation du livre éponyme d’Annie Ernaux (2000), qui vient de recevoir le prix Nobel de littérature. C’est à la fois une expérience corporelle, celle d’un corps à corps entre le public et la jeune protagoniste qui doit choisir entre interrompre sa grossesse ou ses études, et une invitation à penser notre présent à la lueur du passé.
The passing away of South Africa’s Zulu king Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu in March 2021 refocused attention on the role of royal women in Zulu leadership. After the official mourning period, and to the surprise of many observers, the late king’s will appointed his senior wife Queen Mantfombi Dlamini Zulu to hold the throne for his successor.
The stakes could not have been higher as Liz Truss delivered her first party conference speech as prime minister. Against a backdrop of economic chaos, open party warfare and polling that shows she’s on course for a spectacular election loss, Truss insisted she was “determined to get us through the tempest”.
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