Hollywood needs diversity behind the camera as well | Entertainment
It’s awards season, that time of the year when the moving image is celebrated in all its forms. The world’s most prolific actors, directors, writers,…
Kagame’s achievements should not blind us to his tyranny | Human Rights
In December, New African, a leading Pan-African news magazine, published the 2022 edition of its immensely popular 100 most influential Africans list. Advertising the year-ender…
US foreign policy reduced to an afterthought | Politics
US President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night was quite upbeat. It was long on domestic affairs and short on foreign…
For Palestine, justice is not a question of law | Opinions
These days much of the efforts to dismantle Israel’s apartheid and settler colonial systems of domination over the Palestinian people appear to be following a…
Zimbabwe is losing doctors, teachers to British hypocrisy | Health
The United Kingdom, which is buckling under a deepening shortage of nurses and teachers after exiting the European Union, is raiding, among other countries, its former…
The world is falling behind on early childhood education | Opinions
Pre-primary school is fun – serious fun. Music, storytelling, movement, outdoor play, role play and drama give children basic literacy, numeracy and problem-solving skills. These…
When calamities strike, it is the poor who bear the brunt | Humanitarian Crises
On February 6, massive earthquakes struck southern Turkey and northern Syria, inflicting ghastly damage across a geographic region that has already borne a great deal of earthly…
Why some EU countries in the east are still pro-Russia | Russia-Ukraine war
Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine, launched a year ago, changed Europe overnight. It has set in motion tectonic shifts in political and economic relations, disrupting…
Canada is coming undone | Opinions
Thread by thread, the idea of lovely Canada is coming undone. Some, if not many, Canadians are likely to consider my indictment as a click-bait-driven…
The ‘Twitter Files’ are a distraction | Opinions
Billionaire Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter was one of the top stories across the news media in 2022. The takeover has been an unmitigated disaster,…
Kashmir is bleeding. So is its economy | Business and Economy
On January 1, 2023, as the world celebrated the start of a new year, several families were mourning in the Rajouri district of Indian-administered Jammu…
Netflix and Israel: Did ‘Farha’ sabotage a special relationship? | Opinions
In January, the English-language website of the prominent Israel Hayom newspaper reported with satisfaction that Netflix had suddenly added an “unusually high number of Israeli-made…
Scotland’s gender recognition bill would have harmed women | Opinions
The United Kingdom is yet again engulfed in a civil war, and for once the issue causing conflict is not related to Brexit. This time…
Britain is angry and divided, and the Tories don’t get it | Politics
People need food. They’re instead being fed nationalism by an authoritarian government misreading the public mood. There are reasons why half a million people are…
I was nearly lynched in Nigeria. Here’s how I survived | Crime
A few months ago, I survived a lynching: This is how I remember it. I was out on a walk with a friend in Uyo,…
Latin America can lead the way on a new public health model | Coronavirus pandemic
The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that countries of the Global South cannot rely on the international system or rich countries in the…
Mass shootings are just one part of the US’s gun problem | Gun Violence
Mass shootings were once again top news last week in the United States. Monterey Park, Half Moon Bay, Oakland, Beverly Crest – one after the…
Pakistan’s security challenges necessitate a new approach | Opinions
On January 30, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device inside a packed mosque, killing at least 100 people and injuring more than 225 in the…
Why did England veto a Scottish gender reform bill? | Opinions
Late last year, Pope Francis was asked by a Spanish newspaper what role, if any, the Catholic Church should play in ending the constitutional standoff…
How Putin made himself Maidan-proof by waging war on Ukraine | Russia-Ukraine war
It has been two years since a major wave of street protests provoked by the arrest of opposition leader Alexey Navalny hit Russia. To many,…