Democrats, next time try fighting for the working class | US Election 2024
A week before the election, my dad was visiting and talked to me about his gut feeling that former President Donald Trump might win. He…
Zambia’s Kariba Dam crisis is one of inequality | Climate Crisis
As discussions at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku over how to finance climate action remain gridlocked, Southern Africans are learning that some…
Project Esther: A Trumpian blueprint to crush anticolonial resistance | Donald Trump
Donald Trump’s re-election as president of the United States marks a shift in US policy – from the Joe Biden administration’s hypocritical denial of American…
COP 29: Developed economies must learn to prioritise lives over profits | Climate
The flash floods that overwhelmed Spain’s eastern Valencia region two weeks ago were the deadliest natural disaster in the country’s living memory. The Spanish government…
The Gaza genocide may not be in the news, but it hasn’t stopped | Israel-Palestine conflict
“All the world is a stage,” Shakespeare wrote. But on this stage today, there seems to be no place for one part of the world…
Israel’s UNRWA ban is another declaration of genocidal intent | UNRWA
Israel’s parliament has voted overwhelmingly to ban the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) from operating throughout occupied Palestine. A second…
How the genocide destroyed our sea | Israel-Palestine conflict
In June, I saw the sea for the first time since the war started, but it wasn’t a happy encounter. The Israeli army had just…
No, Trump will not be worse than Biden for Palestine and the Middle East | Israel-Palestine conflict
Since former United States President Donald Trump’s election victory, many observers have predicted that his administration would be far worse for Palestine and the Middle…
Biden can still save what remains of Gaza, and his sorry legacy | Israel-Palestine conflict
After they lose, retire, or get pushed out, politicians tend, it is said, to become preoccupied with their legacies. This cliché may be true since…
The sad story of Bibek, a shy Nepali mercenary who fought for Russia | Russia-Ukraine war
Now and then, we read about Russia’s attempts to recruit poor people as mercenaries in its imperialist war against Ukraine. These efforts have stretched across…
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…