As the saying goes, one is ought to put one’s money where one’s mouth is. In D.C., when the words coming out of that hypothetical mouth concerns Saudi interests, an actor appears in the sidelines to make sure the mouth is put where the Saudi interest — and so very coincidentally the money — is.

That actor is the Saudi lobby in the United States, and with a -known- spending of $31.5 Million on its activities for the 2018 fiscal year[1], it surely puts a lot of money where the influential mouths are.

This analysis ought to start with the…

Sudan, a country in the north-eastern part of Africa, has been a country of turmoil and instability since gaining its independence in 1956. According to the World Bank’s Political Stability index, which gives countries a stability score between -2.5(weak) and +2.5(strong), Sudan has had an average stability score of -2.21 between 1996 and 2018; even going beyond the borders of the index between 2010–2012 with scores seeing record low of -2.67[1].

Constitution writing is a time-demanding process that needs a heavy allocation of human resources as well. Being a state that failed utterly in incorporating the sustainability of the status…

Kseniya Oao, the first and only child of Alena Novikova and Aliaksei Oao, is a 22-year-old Belarusian. Although she now studies at the Belarusian State University in the capital city of Minsk; Kseniya was born and raised in Barysaw, -though considerably smaller than its European counterparts- the second largest city in Belarus population-wise.

Alena and Aliaksei, avid supporters of the regime back in the Soviet days, are remnants of the past as far as Kseniya is concerned. Despite having had slight adaptations in their mindsets to fit into the 21st century, they are still lost in an ideological maze. They…