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The Horn of Africa in the quagmire of geopolitical rivalry Part Three: The Zigzags of Cairo's Middle East Policy

Regarding Egypt’s position on the Ethiopian-Somali conflict, Cairo immediately issued an unequivocal warning to Addis Ababa. On 3 January this year, the Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation stressed that the next round of tripartite negotiations on the use of the waters of the Blue Nile on 19 December 2023 had not yielded positive results and that Cairo would “closely monitor the filling of the reservoir and the operation…

Viktor Goncharov

Poland: Staunch Support for Ukraine May Prove a Folly & Political and Potential

POLAND has just had the BIGGEST attitude shift, from having whole-heartily supported Ukraine without reservation, having accepted so many refugees with open arms, and provided a higher amount of assistance in relation to its size, both financial and militarily, and only now is coming to the realization that all is not well with the war, that the closed ranks of the West are not so tight, and that its own population is fed up with the situation…

Henry Kamens

Stockholm—Ankara: “Kurdish coin” for NATO membership...

Sweden, like Germany and Great Britain, has a large Kurdish community (about 100-150 thousand people). As is known, the formation of the Kurdish diaspora in this Scandinavian country began in the 1970s and further migration flows intensified in the 1980s-1990s and 2000s due to the fighting and repression in Turkey, as well as the occupation of Iraq. The Kurdish diaspora is quite politically active and well-integrated in Sweden, and is represented by six members in the local parliament…

Alexandr Svaranc