Thu 27 February 2025: Militaries that have taken power in Africa’s Sahel region – notably Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger – have put pressure on western mining firms for a fairer distribution of revenue from the lucrative mining sector. Gold is one of the resources at the heart of these tensions. West Africa has been a renowned […]
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Thu 27 February 2025: The governance of the Gaza Strip on the day after the war remains a major concern for Tel Aviv, Washington and several Arab capitals, amid regional and international anticipation regarding the sustainability of the ceasefire agreement and the prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Palestinian resistance factions, mainly Hamas. The issue […]
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Wed 26 February 2025: There’s been a global trend in the reduction of aid to Africa since 2018. Donors are shifting their funding priorities in response to domestic and international agendas. Germany, France and Norway, for instance, have all reduced their aid to Africa in the past five years. And, in 2020, the UK government reduced its Overseas Development Aid from […]
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Mon 24 February 2025: Several social activists, locals and thinkers from the state feel that UCC could spark religious clashes in the communally tense state. New Delhi: Days after Uttarakhand became the first state in India to implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), the Gujarat government announced that it was forming a high-level committee to discuss […]
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Mon 24 February 2025: A long-planned bank to fund oil and gas projects in Africa must balance profit with climate considerations, experts say. A group of African countries is set to launch a bank to fund oil and gas projects amid growing reluctance by Western institutions to further invest in fossil fuels. The long-planned “Africa […]
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An elderly Chechen man goes to pray at a snow-covered cemetery, a memorial to the Stalin-era deportation’s victims, in the Chechen Republic’s capital Grozny on March 12, 2021 [File: Musa Sadulayev/AP] Sun 23 February 2025: The tragic history of trauma and repression in Chechnya must be a warning for those who want to abandon the […]
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Sun 23 February 2025: Crime researchers use murder (or homicide) rate per 100,000 as a crude measure of the general level of violent interpersonal crime globally. According to the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime, South Africa’s murder rate of 45 per 100,000 (2023/24) is the second highest for countries that publish crime data. The […]
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Sat 22 February 2025: If asked to identify major milestones that have shaped the Middle East over the past hundred years, they would most likely be the First World War (1914-1918); the 1948 Nakba in Palestine; the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran; the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990; and the US-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq in 2001 and 2003 respectively. The […]
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White South Africans demonstrate in support of US President Donald Trump in front of the US embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, on February 15, 2025 [Jerome Delay/AP] Sat 22 February 2025: As Trump offers to take in Afrikaner refugees, many say right-wing lobbyists have spread misinformation and fear. Johannesburg and Pretoria, South Africa – On a […]
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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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