Sun 19 May 2024: Former South African president Jacob Zuma surprised many in December 2023 by declaring he’d canvass for a new rival to the African National Congress (ANC), the party he used to lead. The new uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party) is on the ballot papers in the upcoming national election and provincial elections. […]
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Fri 17 May 2024: Taking a cover from incessant bombings and numerous killings of Palestinians, Israel has been discreetly plundering Palestine’s natural resources. Since the beginning of the ongoing Gaza war, Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu has been pursuing an ethnic cleansing strategy by forcing Gazans to move south. Beneath the macabre bloodshed, Palestinians are also […]
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Tue 14 May 2024: Mozambique is a multi-religious southern African nation with excellent relations between faiths. Relations between Muslims and the state have been good too. But the situation became more complicated in 2017 when a bloody jihadist insurgency broke out in the north. Eric Morier-Genoud has published extensively on politics and religion in Mozambique. His latest book, Towards […]
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A tribal leader sits behind a marijuana plant in Quetta, Pakistan. File photo/Reuters Mon 13 May 2024: A new regulator aims to legalise hemp growth, while crushing a black market. But is Pakistan too late to the global cannabis party? Islamabad, Pakistan – When Aamir Dhedhi took his mother to India in 2014 to get treatment […]
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Israeli soldiers, tanks, howitzers and armoured vehicles are seen as Israeli military mobility continues along the Gaza fence, in Nahal Oz, Israel on 13 December 2023. [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency]. Fri 10 May 2024: When it comes to civil wars around the world, and especially in the Middle East and North Africa, the attention of […]
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Thu 09 May 2024: Zuma’s new MK party is gaining in polls while ANC support slips. But is the former president still as influential outside the ruling party? KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa – Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma is a divisive figure. For some South Africans, the controversial former president is a liberator and saviour for millions of poor […]
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Sun 05 May 2024: Lubombo, Eswatini – In the heart of the Jilobi Forest, a biodiversity hotspot in Eswatini’s eastern region of Lubombo, the three chiefdoms inhabiting the territory had longstanding disputes, and tensions used to run high. But recently, an urge to preserve their shared land has caused them to retire their rivalry. “There were […]
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Fri 03 May 2024: Founded by Hasan-e-Sabbah in the late 11th century, Hashshashins created fear by murdering officials throughout the Middle East and loaned a word to the English language: Assassins These three men were Nizam al-Mulk, the grand vizier of Seljuk Empire; Omar Khayyam, renowned wiseman and poet; and Hasan-e-Sabbah, founder of the Assassins […]
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Fri 03 May 2024: As the campaign targeting of Muslims becomes more direct and shrill, experts fear Modi’s words could encourage violence against the community. New Delhi, India – Speaking to a saffron-clothed crowd of supporters in his home state of Gujarat earlier this week, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned to an increasingly favoured electoral […]
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Sat 20 April 2024: Think your friends would be interested? Share this story! A regional war doesn’t serve the interests of either the US and global powers as well as Iran. It does however serve Israel, but Tel Aviv is extremely unlikely to succeed in this endeavour After a week of telegraphing its plan to […]
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