“Abandoning diplomacy for confrontation.....is a dive over a cliff,” - Antonio Guterres, UN Chief

A review of the article titled ‘The EU, Economic Partnership Agreements and Africa’  by  Sir Ronald Sanders Sanders (2015) article titled “ The EU, Economic Partnership Agreements and Africa ” is a call for Africa to think twice when it comes to this trade agreement called Economic Partnership Agreement(EPA) with the European Union(EU) as we have often been reminded that not all that glitters is gold. Sanders declares in his main argument that the ‘EPAs are unfair’ and goes ahead to explain how this unequal relationship is detrimental to the interests and future trade prospects of the African states made worse by the fact that European states negotiate as a single entity while their partners have to do it individually as a country. Sanders asserts that there is credible projection that Africa could be the next leading source of global economic growth hence the reasoning behind ‘Agenda 2063’ as a vison of the African Union. With this, the continent should not think lightly of...

Brief History The state of Israel is in Western Asia with neighbors such as Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian territories. Tel Aviv is the economic and technological nerve of the state whereas her government seats in Jerusalem which was recently proclaimed by the Trump Administration as the Capital of Israel. In 1947, the  United Nations   adopted a  Partition Plan for Palestine  recommending the creation of independent Arab and Jewish states and an  internationalized Jerusalem . The plan was accepted by the  Jewish Agency , and rejected by Arab leaders. The following year, the Jewish Agency  declared the independence  of the State of Israel, and the subsequent  1948 Arab–Israeli War  saw Israel's establishment over most of the former  Mandate territory , while the  West Bank  and  Gaza  were held by neighboring Arab states. Israel has since fought  several wars  with Arab count...