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The UN International Court of Justice of the United Nations ruled in the Hague (Netherlands) that Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territories is illegal and called for its immediate cessation, as well as stopping settlement construction, issuing an unprecedented and strong condemnation of Israel’s rule in the lands it seized 57 years ago. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu harshly condemned this conclusion, issued by a panel of 15 judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), saying that these territories are allegedly part of the historical homeland of the Jewish people.

While international relations were organized around two poles of power (East and West) after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the illusion of the end of the Cold War in 1991, the emergence of new centers of power in the Global South changes the situation. It is in this spirit that the prestigious think tank that we agree to call in other words “the Valdaï discussion club ”, based in Moscow, is organizing its second Russian-African conference (July 24, 2024 in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania), one year after the second Russia-Africa summit in Saint Petersburg (here).

Kenya’s antigovernment protests continues into the second month and are similar to Ghana’s in 2022, as both started from over taxation and worsening living standard, problems absent in South East Asia (e.g. Vietnam), which was also colonized. Kenya, Ghana, and Zambia have attempted development for 6 decades but lag behind Vietnam, which started developing under 4 decades ago. Clearly, Kenya and African countries need to change their development model from the World Bank/IMF’s neoliberal Ponzi for enriching western corporations.