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Bank raid in the Indian Ocean

3 weeks ago | mondediplo.com | Ian Urbina

Almost no one’s heard of the Saya de Malha bank, yet it’s one of the most vital places on earth. Among the world’s largest seagrass fields, this patch of ocean the size of Switzerland is more than 300km from land in the Indian Ocean, between Mauritius and Seychelles. It has been called the world’s largest invisible island, formed by a massive plateau, in some spots barely hidden under 10 metres of water.
Censors of the world, unite!

3 weeks ago | mondediplo.com | Benoît Bréville

A strange new axis is taking shape. Not the ‘axis of evil’ that purportedly united the West’s enemies, nor the one that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin appear to be forming. But a broader, lesser-known alliance: an international confederacy of censors that brings together autocrats, democrats and bureaucrats.
Do Canadians still need French?

3 weeks ago | mondediplo.com | Philippe Descamps

On 6 January, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau announced that he would resign in March, saying ‘It’s time for a reset; it’s time for the temperature to come down … to have a fresh start in parliament to be able to navigate through these complex times.’ He spoke without notes from outside his Ottawa residence, repeating each English paragraph in French. His answers to press questions also balanced the two official languages of this country of 40 million.
The global gold rush is now officially on

1 month ago | mondediplo.com | Tristan Coloma

In mid-February, the global gold market was on tenterhooks. The price of an ounce had been hovering around an all-time high of $2,800. Was it about to go into freefall or would it finally pass the symbolic $3,000 threshold? For speculators and savers, the answer would, as always, be based on the same factors. Had the geopolitical situation deteriorated since Donald Trump returned to the White House? (If it had, that would be a bullish factor.) Had the dollar gone up in value (bearish)?
Smuggled gold fuels Sudan war

1 month ago | mondediplo.com | Tristan Coloma

Far from media spotlight, Sudan’s descent into chaos continues. The civil war that broke out in April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), commanded by Mohamed Hamdan Daglo (‘Hemedti’), has claimed more than 30,000 lives and displaced 11 million people. According to the UN, 25 million – half of the country’s population – urgently need food aid to avert famine.
France’s far-right voters: ‘We all think the same thing here’

1 month ago | mondediplo.com | Benoît Bréville

Who votes for the far right and why? This question has been the subject of so many books, conferences and articles that you might imagine it had been settled. Since its first electoral successes 40 years ago, the Front National (FN) – renamed Rassemblement National (RN) in 2018 – has been, according to political scientist Alexandre Dezé, ‘incontestably the most extensively studied French political party of recent decades’, with at least 210 books published about it between the 1980s and 2017.
Emptying Gaza is an old Zionist dream

1 month ago | mondediplo.com | Alain Gresh

‘I would like Gaza to sink into the sea.’ It was September 1992, and the Soviet Union was a thing of the past. One after another, the international crises that had punctuated the cold war, from southern Africa to Central America, were being resolved. In Washington, Israel held talks not only with the Arab states but also with a Jordanian-Palestinian delegation on the future of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
Romanians told, vote better!

1 month ago | mondediplo.com | Benoît Bréville

Of the many elections dotted through last year’s calendar, there was little to suggest that the Romanian presidential vote would be all that remarkable. Since the end of communism in 1989, the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the National Liberal Party (PNL), both resolutely Atlanticist and pro-European, have taken turns in power, and occasionally governed together, as they currently do. So a surprise result of major international significance seemed unlikely.
South Korea: anatomy of a coup gone wrong

2 months ago | mondediplo.com | Renaud Lambert

On 3 December President Yoon Suk-yeol abruptly left a cabinet meeting with no explanation. Most of his colleagues only discovered why when they heard him making a televised address from an adjoining room, announcing South Korea’s 17th – and fortunately shortest – period of martial law since it was established in 1948.
UK: Labour and the lobbyists

2 months ago | mondediplo.com | Peter Geoghegan

In Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index from January 2024, the UK fell to twentieth place, its lowest ever ranking. It’s not hard to see why: a Conservative government mired in allegations of corruption; billions of pounds in Covid contracts for politically connected VIPs; peerages doled out to Tory donors; public bodies stuffed with party cronies.