After months of tensions, Algiers and Bamako restored diplomatic relations in July 2026, opening a new chapter in efforts to address Mali’s protracted security...
A criminal court in Damascus has sentenced former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia after convicting him of murder, torture, arbitrary detention...
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s criticism of the Taliban during South Africa’s National Women’s Day commemorations has raised wider questions about the assumptions underpinning dominant international...
Civil society groups have called on the South African Police Service (SAPS) to protect migrant and refugee communities and act against alleged vigilante violence...
By Mavuso Msimang
South Africa cannot deport its way out of Southern Africa’s economic crisis. Mavuso Msimang argues that the country should instead lead an...
By Shaheesta Khan
President Arthur Peter Mutharika’s latest medical trip to South Africa has renewed debate over the state of Malawi’s struggling public healthcare system,...
Uganda’s parliament has approved the deployment of troops to Gaza as part of a proposed multinational force tasked with supporting security arrangements in the...
