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Can the Indo-Pacific remain strategically coherent if India is no longer central to it, and does the shift point to something deeper than a bureaucratic housekeeping exercise?
India and Cyprus are transforming a long-standing friendship into a strategic partnership spanning defence, security, connectivity and economic cooperation.
The challenge before India’s BRICS presidency is not to eliminate internal differences but to manage them effectively enough to preserve functional cooperation.
The potential withdrawal of Rwanda’s troops from northern Mozambique highlights the fragility of security in resource-rich conflict zones like Cabo Delgado.