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.

The 25^th June 2024, came with the violent protests in Kenya, in which demonstrators broke into the parliament, stole the mace and set the building ablaze, as some of them were shot by the police all across the capital. The author does not praise the protests or the violence but notes the government’s recklessness in provoking public disquiet and failing to effectively police the country, while sending 400 policemen to Haiti, the day before.

General elections will be conducted in Bangladesh on January 7, 2024. The country has emerged as one of the rapidly developing economies in the region under the incumbent Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina. She has inaugurated numerous new projects including the Bangabandhu tunnel, the new elevated Dhaka expressway, the 2400 MW Rooppur nuclear power plant, Terminal 3 of the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA), Khulna-Mongla Port Railway line, the Akhaura-Agartala broad-gauge line, Unit 2 of the Maitri Power plant, and MRT Line 6. The rationale behind the…

It is no coincidence that as Washington wages proxy war against Russia in Ukraine that familiar trouble spots elsewhere along Russia’s periphery have ignited again. In the Caucasus region nation of Georgia, protests have begun, targeting the current government and attempting to obstruct a transparency bill aimed at exposing…