Victor Angelo

A vaccine against geopolitical rivalries Victor Angelo   Boris Johnson convened an extraordinary virtual G7 summit today. He justified...

These days, for a European, to watch American TV is painful. And deeply troubling. The country is going through a major crisis, a very co...

It is massively wrong to criticise the World Health Organisation (WHO) at this stage. We are still in unknown territory and unchartered w...

This is a time of great anxiety. It’s a global challenge. It would require global political leadership, men and women in decisive positio...

Yesterday, the UN Secretary-General addressed the Security Council on the Covid-19. It was the right move because the pandemic is not jus...

Wishing a speedy recovery to Prime Minister Boris Johnson of the UK. He has been transferred this evening to intensive care because of th...

When the challenge is huge and its evolution unpredictable, the best approach is to concentrate all the efforts on containment. You limit...

Yesterday I wrote a few lines about India’s decision to confine her citizens. It’s a 21 days lockdown for 1,3 billion people. Many, in my...

Today’s word is containment. Every government should ask themselves what they can do to more efficiently contain the epidemic. That must ...

As we get into March, we can be sure we will have major challenges in front of us. The coronavirus will probably be the most critical. It...

The coronavirus is impacting the world economy in an extraordinary manner. Yesterday and today, the financial markets lost trillions of d...

It has been a crazy day in the financial markets. All of them were deeply in the red. The coronavirus outbreak in Italy is a little bit t...

As we start the last week of February, the key issue in our part of the world is the outbreak of coronavirus in Northern Italy. In the la...

The coronavirus outbreak keeps making the headlines. It is on all the major news channels and papers. There is uncertainty and that cause...

The measures taken by many countries to prevent the spreading of the coronavirus epidemic do not take into account the procedures establi...

I wrote my bi-weekly column to the Portuguese magazine Visão this morning. Everybody is writing about Ebola these days. I also did. It is ...

Sierra Leone is locked down for three days. The last day will be tomorrow. During this period no-one can be on the streets, anywhere in th...

The decision taken by President Obama regarding the deployment of about 3,000 military personnel to Liberia to help the country to fight E...

Cuba has decided to deploy 165 medical and health services personnel to Sierra Leone to help in the fight against the Ebola pandemics. The...

New research information shows that Ebola could spread across a number of regions of West and Central Africa. It is also already destabili...