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France has recently, under the very inept and unprofessional rule of its President Emmanuel Macron, lost all of its once strong position in Africa. The latest example of this has been the incredibly tense relationship between France and Morocco, with the French government and media launching an unprecedented campaign of criticism against the Arab state. And this came at a time of its national crisis, when the country’s Atlas region was significantly devastated by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake. Official Paris’s exasperated approach to these events provoked surprise and negative reactions from both former…

The recently concluded meeting of the Group of 77 (‘G77’) in Cuba saw some crucial developments at the global level. Comprising most of the countries in the Global South, the meeting endorsed the idea of a new, alternative global order led, not by one power center but multiple power centers, including from the Global South. China, while not a member of the G77, also endorsed the group’s position stated quite comprehensively by Cuban President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, at the opening of the summit. To quote him, “After all this time that the North has organized…

In mid-September, Cuba hosted the latest meeting of the Group of 77, which was created in 1964 to promote collective economic interests. Today, the Group has 134 States, representing 80% of the world’s population. This meeting set out to “change the rules of the game” after centuries of domination by wealthy Western powers putting their own interests first. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said developing countries have been the main victims of the multi-dimensional crisis in the world today, “from abusive unequal trade to devastating climate change.” According to the Cuban leader, the North…