Japan is awakened to the volatile security environment in its neighbourhood and appropriately positioning itself to cope with any eventuality. The driving factors in Japan reviewing its security posture stem from mainly three factors: China’s aggressive and expansionist agenda on regional territorial issues, President Donald Trump’s tariff wars

This means that attempts to stop future prosecutions of apartheid-era crimes are essentially dead in the water for three reasons. First, in terms of South Africa’s constitution, customary international law forms part of South African law, and crimes against humanity, including apartheid, are considered core international crimes. Second, the state

Private-sector-led growth will create more jobs and opportunities, thereby increasing national output and exports. This will, in turn, narrow the country’s hard currency deficit, the root cause of its financial dependency. Owing to their contribution to GDP growth, job creation, and the promotion of skills and entrepreneurship, small and medium e

against losses can reduce the incentive for caution or responsible decision-making. Along the same lines, the uninterrupted and often unconditional flow of aid to Egypt may have fostered a lack of urgency in undertaking painful reforms and instituting long-term economic restructuring plans. In other words, it has inhibited economic reform and good

By early 2022, years of economic mismanagement and faulty planning, coupled with the adverse effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, had led to a grave economic crisis in Egypt. This crisis, arguably Egypt’s worst in decades, involved a serious liquidity shortage, mounting debt, multiple currency devaluations, soaring inflation,