It is time Liberia enacts legislation banning FGM | Women’s Rights
In 2022, the National Council of Chiefs and Elders of Liberia (NACCEL) announced a three-year moratorium on female genital mutilation (FGM). A year later, the…
The global economy is in turmoil. Now is the time to build a new order | Business and Economy
We live in difficult times, and it is challenging to remain optimistic about the future. Climate change threatens human wellbeing and planetary health, and the…
France can and must do more than recognising Palestinian statehood | Israel-Palestine conflict
On Wednesday, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France is preparing to recognise Palestinian statehood within a few months. If it proceeds, Paris would become…
Africa doesn’t need aid. It needs control over its critical minerals | Business and Economy
The decision of US President Donald Trump’s administration to suspend foreign aid and shut down the USAID agency has sent shockwaves across the development industry.…
United States is no longer a safe destination for international students | Education
One cannot underestimate the precarity that orders the lives of international students in the United States. I remember making my maiden journey from Kolkata to…
Sorry, America, tariffs won’t bring jobs back | Donald Trump
At a White House dinner back in 2011, Steve Jobs was asked by President Obama what it would take to build iPhones in the United…
Why I don’t cheer for Israel’s ‘pro-democracy’ movement | Israel-Palestine conflict
In conversations about Israel and Palestine, I am often asked about my views on the internal resistance to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. My questioners…
The US is in all-out kidnapping mode, and no one is safe | Donald Trump
Last week, the United States admitted it had wrongfully deported 29-year-old Salvadoran citizen Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who has now joined the burgeoning population of El…
Fear is not a word that can describe what we feel in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict
Last week, during another violent night, my almost four-year-old niece asked me a question I’ll never forget. “If we die while sleeping… will it still…
Africa must shun Trump’s push to resurrect coal | Climate Crisis
President Donald Trump’s administration has recently taken to urging African leaders to burn more planet-heating fossil fuels, and in particular coal, the dirtiest of all…
How Musk ushered 4chan into US politics | Elon Musk
In the past few days, US media have been reporting that billionaire Elon Musk will step back from his leading role in President Donald Trump’s…
The UK’s ‘grooming gang’ scandal is about race, class and misogyny | Women’s Rights
“My daughter is being gang raped and sold to countless men.” These were the words, spoken by a heartbroken mother, that first alerted me to…
Zimbabwe must abandon Rhodesian style of governance | Corruption
On March 31, Zimbabwean security forces spent the entire day dispersing small gatherings of people who were trying to stage a peaceful protest against the…
Reverse reparations: Zimbabwe’s perfect trap, South Africa’s looming danger | Debt News
On February 7, the White House cut aid to South Africa, citing a nonexistent threat to white farmers from government land expropriation. To see what…
Yet another Israeli war crime is buried in the sand as the world looks away | Israel-Palestine conflict
Every day, Mohammad Bahloul gambled with his own life in the hope of saving others. As a medic in the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS),…
I have finally understood the true meaning of Land Day | Israel-Palestine conflict
When I was a school student, every morning, we would gather in the schoolyard and sing songs dedicated to our land, Palestine. Many of our…
It’s not just Trump, the EU is also waging an anti-migration crusade | Migration
For months now, US President Donald Trump’s administration has been leading a well-publicised crackdown on migration. The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and…
In Mexico, enforced disappearance is a way of life | Drugs
At the beginning of March, an expansive clandestine crematorium was discovered on a ranch in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, complete with burned human…
Modi and Trump are on the same page on immigration | Narendra Modi
In February, the airwaves in India were inundated with images of undocumented Indians shackled in chains on a military deportation flight from the United States.…
The American dream is officially over | Business and Economy
The best days of the American economy are long in the past, and better days for the US are unlikely in the foreseeable future. The…