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…
The Israeli ‘General’s Plan’ for northern Gaza is unlikely to succeed | Israel-Palestine conflict
On October 5, Israel launched a ground military operation, demanding the evacuation of Palestinians residing in Beit Hanoon, Beit Lahiya, Jabalia refugee camp, and Jabalia…
A sustainable global universal basic income can be done. Here is how | Business and Economy
In September, Pope Francis attended the World Meeting of Popular Movements, an initiative he launched 10 years ago as a platform for grassroots organisations to…
Zionist ‘safety patrols’ on campus have little concern for Jewish safety | Protests
Last academic year saw university students across North American campuses form Gaza solidarity encampments to protest Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians and their universities’ financial…
The ICC’s credibility is hanging by a thread | Israel-Palestine conflict
Upon the entry into force of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in 2002, a palpable hope arose that the era of impunity…
Israel’s mass detention of Palestinians is aimed to break our spirit | Israel-Palestine conflict
On November 28, Israeli soldiers stopped my car at the Jaba checkpoint in the occupied West Bank and kidnapped me. I spent the following 253…
Israel’s forgotten terror | Israel-Palestine conflict
The International Criminal Court’s (ICJ) January finding of a “plausible genocide” in Gaza, and subsequent ruling that Israel is responsible for an apartheid system in…
Gisele Pelicot is a hero | Women’s Rights
Gisele Pelicot is a hero. Her husband, Dominique Pelicot, has recently admitted in a French court that he drugged her to sleep, raped her, and…
Why Palestinians won’t leave their land | Opinions
Over the past year, Israel’s genocidal violence has officially killed nearly 42,000 Palestinians in Gaza. Estimates put the real death toll at more than 180,000. Simultaneously, the Israeli…
Al-Shabab in Somalia: Bullets and bombs can’t bury ideologies | Opinions
In August, Somalia’s prime minister, Hamza Abdi Barre, held a town-hall meeting in the Somali capital Mogadishu to mark the two-year anniversary of the formation…