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AFRICA

Africa can capitalise on China’s ascendancy

China’s economic rise and growing footprint presents an alternative to the West

  • Emmanuel Matambo
8 min read
Doctors and nurses of Cuba’s Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade take part in a farewell ceremony before travelling to Andorra to help in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, at the Central Unit of Medical Cooperation in Havana, on March 28, 2020. (Photo by Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images)
ANGELA MERKEL
Video

Political pragmatism is required to survive Covid-19

Political ideologies — communism, capitalism, liberalism — and an unrealistic view of the world as we’d like it to be got us into this mess

  • Quentin du Plessis
16 min read
CENTRAL TIBETAN ADMINISTRATION

Inside the court of the Tibetan god-king

When the Dalai Lama sat down on Saturday with Richard Gere and Robert Thurman, father of actor Uma and a United States professor of Buddhism, it was supposed to be for a few…

  • Randeep Ramesh
7 min read
BENITO JUAREZ

Who is the shortest world leader?

Until Monday there was little argument about the holder of the coveted title of shortest leader in the world: at 162cm, or a shade over five feet three inches, Kim Jong-il,…

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read