Thu 08 October 2026: A few days before 7 October, the US National Security Adviser said “the Middle East was quieter than it had been for two decades”. That sentence now sounds like a full summary of the American illusion. Washington was looking at the region from above. Normalisation was moving forward. Israel felt secure. […]
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Wed 07 October 2026: Last week, a FlyDubai flight hijacked the news cycle, though no Israeli was hurt and no Israeli was injured. The aircraft landed safely, and Saudi medics checked on the Israeli passengers to confirm they were unharmed. None of that mattered. The internationally indicted criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu, was paraded on most American […]
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Tue 06 October 2026: Returnees face economic hardship and limited support as they try to rebuild in Zimbabwe. Mutare, Zimbabwe – Samantha Chimbuya had built a life in South Africa after leaving Zimbabwe in 2019 in search of better opportunities. She found work, could afford food and believed her two children had access to better education. […]
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Sun 04 October 2026: The expansionist Zionist project has entered its terminal, self-devouring phase. What the global community is witnessing in the aftermath of the devastating campaign in Gaza is not the consolidation of an invincible regional power, but the structural, compounding decay of an aggressive settler-colonial enterprise. Blinded by decades of unchecked ideological hubris, […]
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Mon 21 September 2026: On Saturday, President Prabowo Subianto was in the middle of a speech when he stopped talking, wiped his eyes with a small towel, and apologized to the crowd. “I am sorry,” he said. “I just remembered our brothers and sisters in Palestine. They are being slaughtered, they are bombed, they are attacked again […]
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Sat 12 September 2026: Few events have altered the geopolitical trajectory of the Middle East as profoundly as 11 September 2001. The attacks on New York and Washington did not merely trigger an American military response. They transformed the way power, sovereignty and security were understood across the region. The United States responded by declaring […]
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Fri 11 September 2026: Twenty-five years after September 11, 2001, the most enduring legacy of 9/11 may not be the destruction of the World Trade Center or even the wars that followed. It may lie in something less visible but more enduring: the transformation of the Muslim from a religious and political identity into a […]
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Wed 09 September 2026: As President Ruto orders the closure of foreign-owned small businesses, the nation grapples with competing visions for its informal economy—one rooted in protectionism, the other in infrastructure investment. Grace Muthoni wakes before dawn each day to make the journey to Gikomba Market in Nairobi, where she sells second-hand clothing. For seven […]
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Khethukuthula Dlame distributes aid to members of his community in Nquthu [Qaanitah Hunter/Al Jazeera] Sun 30 August 2026: Online anti-Muslim rhetoric is growing, but life on the ground tells a more complicated story. Nquthu, South Africa – When Zwelibi Jack Ngubane died at the age of 105, he had already made one thing clear to […]
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Sat 08 August 2026: Analysts say regional partners are seeking alternatives to supplement their security without discarding US support. A new mutual defence pact between Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan has raised questions about the shifting geopolitical landscape of the Middle East, where fallout from the US-Israel war on Iran has prompted some countries to […]
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