Reparations for empire: What the new pope owes to Africa | Slavery
Late Pope Francis, who came to be known as a strong voice for the poor, oppressed and the marginalised during his tenure as the leader…
I was forced to burn my books to survive in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict
When we were children, my siblings and I regularly spent our pocket money on new books. Our mother had instilled in us a passionate love…
A protective force must be deployed to occupied Palestine | Israel-Palestine conflict
In the past few weeks, demands for the deployment of a protective force in Gaza and the West Bank have resurfaced. They have come from health…
Second Serve: How Madrid Open’s extended format has split opinions of ATP and WTA players
With the two-week Madrid Open reaching the halfway point, it is the perfect time to revisit a thorny issue in tennis.Stretching several ATP and WTA…
In Yemen, we comfort ourselves, thinking: It is not as bad as Gaza | Opinions
In the first week of April, the United States carried out air raids across Yemen. One strike hit just a street away from my family…
USAID and the pacification industry in Palestine | Israel-Palestine conflict
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) opened its office in Palestine back in 1994. Its website, which is no longer available, used to…
The great collapse of US higher education has begun | Education
There is no other way to say it. The American university as the United States has known it since the 1960s is at an end.…
In Canada, genocide is on the ballot | Gaza
If you doubted the old chestnut that politics can be a “fickle business,” the leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, Pierre Poilievre, would like to have…
Trump’s campaign to turn dissent into a deportable offence harms democracy | Opinions
On April 11, an immigration judge in Louisiana ruled that Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student and lawful United States permanent resident, can…
Away from the global spotlight, Eritreans are trapped in a garrison state | Conflict
American writer and security analyst Paul B Henze, who served in the Carter administration as a deputy to National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, once made…
Before he died, Pope Francis called for peace in Gaza. Will anyone listen? | Israel-Palestine conflict
Pope Francis died today at the age of 88 following a prolonged illness. Just yesterday, in his Easter Sunday address in Saint Peter’s Square in Vatican City, the…
Trump risks leaving behind a legacy of failure in Ukraine | Israel-Palestine conflict
A day before Easter, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a temporary ceasefire for the Christian holiday. Like other Russian promises, this one was broken too.…
The Hawaii of Israel: How Trump legitimised a longstanding Israeli vision | Israel-Palestine conflict
On April 7, United States President Donald Trump met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a second time since his inauguration. Speaking to the media,…
Vatican notes ‘exchange of opinions’ over migrants, prisoners in meeting with Vance
VATICAN CITY — Vice President JD Vance met Saturday with the Vatican’s No. 2 official amid tensions over the U.S. crackdown on migrants, with the Holy See…
Gaza had educational justice. Now the genocide has wiped that out, too | Education
Palestinians have always been passionate about learning. During the Ottoman era, Palestinian students travelled to Istanbul, Cairo, and Beirut to pursue higher education. During the…
Military courts: The front line of Uganda’s war on dissent | Elections
Uganda is gearing up for general elections in January 2026 – the seventh since President Yoweri Museveni came to power in 1986. As in the…
Can Trump legally deport US citizens to El Salvador prisons? | Donald Trump News
After deporting 238 alleged Venezuelan gang members and 23 members of a Salvadoran gang to a maximum-security El Salvador prison last month, US President Donald…
After two years of war in Sudan, the world can no longer plead ignorance | Conflict
Two years ago this week, a conflict erupted in Sudan that few anticipated would escalate so rapidly or persist for so long. What began as…
The peril of a president who’s never wrong | Donald Trump
Donald Trump is holding the world hostage. True to his erratic nature, the US president has toyed with the global trading regimen like a yo-yo.…
US employers abandoned their DEI commitments long before Trump took office | Islamophobia
In the few months since President Donald Trump took office, the campaign against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies has expanded at an unprecedented scale.…