Wed 12 February 2025: The irony should not be lost here. For most of the world, this so-called Deep State has been the American establishment which has often been involved in an agenda to undermine foreign governments. During the US Presidential election campaign, one of Donald Trump’s themes was the need to root out the […]
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Wed 12 February 2025: On a humid January day last year, a group of women activists gathered outside the UAE’s sprawling embassy in Pretoria’s upscale Waterkloof neighborhood. Among them were pensioners, homemakers, doctors, and journalists, standing resolute with large posters condemning the UAE’s complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. As they chanted in unison, […]
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Tue 11 February 2025: It’s “the revolution of common sense,” President Donald Trump announced in his second inaugural address. And so it is. The latest installment of that assertion came in his Jan. 30, 2025, press conference about the Potomac plane crash. When asked how he had concluded that diversity policies were responsible for a crash that was still […]
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Sun 09 February 2025: Over the past few weeks the new US president, Donald Trump, has repeatedly claimed that the United States should “take back” the Panama Canal and that it should assume control of Greenland – one way or another. He has talked of Canada becoming America’s 51st state and now he even wants […]
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Fri 07 February 2025: US president Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization is threatening funding for critical health programmes like HIV/Aids and tuberculosis in different parts of the world, including Nigeria. The Conversation Africa’s Adejuwon Soyinka asked professor of virology and former WHO Africa regional virologist Oyewale Tomori why Nigeria is heavily dependent on US […]
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A masked opposition fighter carries a flag of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in the courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque in the old walled city of Damascus, Syria, on December 10, 2024. (AP/Hussein Malla) Thu 06 February 2025: Recent developments in Syria have garnered significant global attention, disrupting the international focus on the crises in Ukraine […]
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Mon 03 February 2025: Now that the Israeli aggression on Gaza has ended, albeit temporarily, the Israelis, after nearly 500 days since the 7 October attack, are still searching for an answer to the historical question of why Hamas carried out this attack. Meanwhile, they are ignoring the fact that the Palestinians broke the barrier […]
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Sun 02 February 2025: And lied about it. There is a story that is commonly told in Britain that the colonisation of India – as horrible as it may have been – was not of any major economic benefit to Britain itself. If anything, the administration of India was a cost to Britain. So the fact that […]
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Fri 31 January 2025: As illegal and small-scale mining contaminates rivers and soil, many worry President John Mahama will allow such practices to continue. When activist Oliver Barker Vormawor saw reports in September that Ghana’s water agency would not be able to supply some parts of the country with water due to extreme contamination of […]
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Fri 31 January 2025: It has long been a classic hallmark of a colonial government or authority to groom a disadvantaged minority in a subjugated region to either foster long-term generational divisions or to counter a rival power – a strategy that does, tragically, exploit the real grievances of those groups. A century after the […]
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