par Leslie Varenne | 6 Nov 2023 | Archives
Joe Biden’s term in office, which began with the debacle in Kabul, could well end with a widespread conflict in the Middle East. Between the two, there was Ukraine, where no one would dare bet on a victory for Kiev and its NATO allies. A month after the...
par Leslie Varenne | 5 Août 2023 | Archives
The events that have been unfolding in Niamey over the past week are breathtaking. If the situation was not so ominous, it would be comical. How could we have gone in the space of a few hours from a highly predictable purely Nigerien coup to a Cold War episode, with...
par Leslie Varenne | 16 Mai 2023 | Archives
The war in Sudan started on April 15. It has been a month that the two generals fighting each other, Al-Burhan and Hemedti, have plunged the country into chaos. The two former accomplices, now enemies, have no intention of ending the fight, each side hoping to win...
par Leslie Varenne | 30 Avr 2023 | Archives
One month after the announcement of the Iranian-Saudi peace agreement signed in Beijing, the first signs of appeasement in the Near and Middle East are visible in Lebanon and Syria, with a sustained diplomatic ballet between Arab capitals. After nine years of...
par Leslie Varenne | 20 Mar 2023 | Archives
Ten days after the agreement signed in Beijing that puts an end to the seven-year freeze on diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran, it is still difficult to measure all the consequences. However, it is already certain that this is a major event that will...
par Leslie Varenne | 8 Jan 2023 | Archives
For non-soccer fans, the World Cup in Doha was to be dull, with its litany of expected polemics such as the choice of this country to organize the global event, democracy, human rights, boycott, etc. But nothing happened as expected. The Western narrative was...
