
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin put forward a scheme today for Ukraine to be placed under United Nations control.
In televised remarks to the crew of a Russian nuclear submarine, Mr Putin repeated his claim that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky lacks the legitimacy to sign a peace deal.
Mr Zelensky’s term would have expired last year, but Kiev has postponed elections due to the war.

ROGER McKENZIE expounds on the motivation that drove him to write a book that anticipates a dawn of a new, fully liberated Africa – the land of his ancestors

While much attention is focused on Israel’s aggression, we cannot ignore the conflicts in Africa, stoked by Western imperialism and greed for natural resources, if we’re to understand the full picture of geopolitics today, argues ROGER McKENZIE