Sun 16 February 2025: Sudan’s women and girls have endured horrific sexual violence throughout this war. They deserve support and protection. Today, African heads of states are convening on the margins of the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa to discuss Sudan’s devastating conflict and come up with strategies to try and put the country […]
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Sat 15 February 2025: Last time you scrolled the “For You” page on TikTok, did you get a video about current events? Politics? Breaking news? If you’re one of the 63% of teens or 33% of adults in the U.S. who uses TikTok, you probably have. But where did it come from? Who created it? And should you believe […]
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Disgruntled white South Africans protest against farm murders they blame on the government. Alexander Joe/AFP via Getty Images Fri 14 February 2025: American president Donald Trump has issued an executive order to withdraw aid from South Africa. He was reacting to what he has called the South African government’s plan to “seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property […]
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Wed 12 February 2025: The explanation is rather simple: the state has not been creating good jobs for years. It has been in the news lately that Gujarati migrants make up a huge portion of those who have been deported by the Trump administration to India. In fact, it is understood that Gujaratis are overrepresented […]
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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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