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Cameroon approves vice president role amid opposition backlash
YAOUNDE (Realist English). Cameroon’s parliament has approved a constitutional amendment creating the position of vice president, a move that supporters...
Burkina Faso’s Traore tells citizens to “forget democracy” after party ban
OUAGADOUGOU (Realist English). Burkina Faso’s military leader Ibrahim Traore has called on citizens to “forget” about democracy, marking a sharp...
South Africa deploys troops to support police in crime crackdown
PRETORIA (Realist English). South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has authorized the deployment of 2,200 members of the national defence force...
Republic of Congo heads to presidential election with Sassou Nguesso expected to retain power
BRAZZAVILLE (Realist English). Voters in the Republic of Congo are set to go to the polls this weekend to elect...
Burundi refugees forced out of camps in Tanzania amid repatriation drive
DAR ES SALAAM (Realist English). Thousands of Burundian refugees living in camps in Tanzania are being forced to leave as...
Militants abduct more than 300 people in northeastern Nigeria
ABUJA (Realist English). Armed militants attacked a town in northeastern Nigeria on Friday, abducting more than 300 residents, including women...
US to deploy troops to Nigeria for counter-extremism training
ABUJA (Realist English). The United States will deploy military personnel to Nigeria to train local forces in counter-extremism operations, Nigerian...
Libya awards new oil and gas exploration licences in first round since 2007
TRIPOLI (Realist English). Libya has awarded new oil and gas exploration and production licences to foreign energy companies in its...
Congo faces mounting backlash over proposed U.S. critical minerals deal
KINSHASA (Realist English). Opposition is intensifying in the Democratic Republic of Congo after President Felix Tshisekedi returned from a U.S....
Sheaito Moussallam: Iran is the main obstacle to Greater Israel
BEIRUT (Realist English). The Middle East today is an echo of exploding bombs, diplomatic dead ends, and dozens of contradictory interpretations...
‘Capitalism is facing a crisis of legitimacy’: Larry Fink on inequality, AI and the evolution of markets
NEW YORK (Realist English). Larry Fink, founder and CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest investment company with $14 trillion in assets...
Maria Nikiforova: Young people of the liberated territories are waiting for peace and justice
MOSCOW (Realist English). Maria Nikiforova, an expert on youth policy at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian...
155 billionaires vs. 150 million people: Zyuganov on the social catastrophe in Russia
MOSCOW (Realist English). Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov presented the pre-election program "Victory...
UAE boosts production bypassing OPEC, but oil prices rise
MOSCOW (Realist English). Leading researcher at IMEMO RAS, Candidate of Historical Sciences Stanislav Ivanov has analysed for Realist English the possible consequences of...
Kurdish Genocide: From the Ottoman Empire to Erdoğan — a Chronicle of a Century of Terror
ISTANBUL (Realist English). Crimes against the Kurdish people have not been isolated episodes but have been carried out by successive Turkish...
Will Trump and Xi Agree on a New World Order?
BEIJING (Realist English). Relations between the United States and China in May 2026 can best be described as an “armed...
Pentagon withdraws troops from Germany: minus 5,000 soldiers in Europe and cancellation of a missile battalion
BERLIN (Realist English). On 2 May, the Pentagon officially announced the withdrawal of 5,000 US troops from Germany over the next...
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