How are you? A question I struggle to answer in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict
“How are you?” It is a simple question I get in daily messages from my friends – Kenyan, Nigerian, Turkish, British, Jordanian, Iranian and Moroccan.…
Why is Germany supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza? | Israel-Palestine conflict
No state has been as assiduous in attacking the Palestine solidarity movement and supporting Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza as Germany. Today, it is impossible…
Trump 2.0 will not be like anything we have seen before | US Election 2024
The horrible truth is, Donald J Trump is back. After winning against his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, he is once again the president-elect…
Let’s make protecting children from violence a priority | Child Rights
The first ever Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children, which will convene in Bogota, Colombia, this week, is an unmissable opportunity for governments…
On November 5, I will vote against genocide | US Election 2024
Earlier this year, as genocide was unfolding in Gaza, I began volunteering with various medical organisations helping Palestinians. I went on a mission to the…
A Gaza child’s last will | Genocide
Ten-year-old children are supposed to be busy playing with toys, doodling and hanging out with their friends, not writing a will in case they die.…
How Israel’s starvation of Gaza is affecting Palestinians elsewhere | Israel-Palestine conflict
The Israeli war on Gaza has manifested in a variety of brutal forms and the most insidious and devastating one of them has been the…
Mohammad Yunus can go down in history as the architect of a new Bangladesh | Opinions
After mass protests forced long-term Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee the country in early August, Bangladesh found itself in a unique moment…
It’s raining bombs in a city by the sea | Opinions
On Monday, the Israeli military set about maniacally bombarding the southern Lebanese coastal city of Tyre, striking residential buildings left and right and converting the scene…
Israel wants to close the circle of history in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict
Over the past year, Gaza has become synonymous with epochal catastrophe. But in ancient times, this was a place of prosperity, a strategic crossroads known…
An urgent call to save the staff and patients of Gaza’s al-Awda Hospital | Israel-Palestine conflict
As I write, thousands of people in northern Gaza are on the move, attempting to escape the worst nightmare imaginable. Forced from their homes and…
How the world keeps failing eastern DRC | Opinions
On August 10, at least 18 were killed near the city of Beni, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) near the border…
White-wing politics dominating US election spell trouble for the world | US Election 2024
With less than a fortnight to go till presidential elections are held in the United States, leading candidates are making their final appeals to the…
ICMD: A new tool to end impunity for those who violate the rules of war | Opinions
In August 1864, a small group of nations adopted a convention in Geneva, Switzerland aimed at ameliorating the condition of the wounded in war. The…
Greta Thunberg – still making all the right enemies | Gaza
Greta Thunberg makes all the right enemies. Thunberg likely understood that from the moment the then-15- year-old Swedish schoolgirl embarked on her silent, solitary protest…
Climate policies must not write off livestock | Climate Crisis
Livestock are a vital component of both the African food system and rural livelihoods. Africa has around 400 million cattle alone, and the livestock sector…
Israel has taken human shields to a whole new criminal level | Israel-Palestine conflict
The use of human shields in war is not a new phenomenon. Militaries have forced civilians to serve as human shields for centuries. Yet, despite this long…
For US universities, Arab and Muslim lives do not matter | Opinions
On October 7, the Tahrir Coalition, a union of pro-Palestinian organisations at the University of Michigan, posted on social media what it said was a…
Left unchecked, Lebanon’s displacement crisis could tear the country apart | Israel attacks Lebanon
Lebanon faces a threat just as destructive as the bombs raining down on its cities: a displacement crisis that risks tearing the country apart from…
Diego Garcia remains a dark British-American secret in the Indian Ocean | Opinions
When the governments of Mauritius and the United Kingdom issued a joint declaration at the beginning of this month that they had “reached an historic…