Why Ramzan Kadyrov’s health does not matter | Opinions
On September 15, Andrii Yusov, a spokesman for the Ukrainian military intelligence,…
Israel has no place in the US Visa Waiver Program | Opinions
At 81, my father still recounts stories about our village, Nuris, and…
Corruption is as American as apple pie | Opinions
On September 22, influential United States Senator Bob Menendez was indicted on…
ECOWAS is undoubtedly in trouble, but it still has potential | Opinions
In the past three years, four countries from the 15-member Economic Community…
India wants to take on Trudeau. It’s taking down its own diaspora | Opinions
India-Canada relations have been on the boil since Canadian Prime Minister Justin…
More than democracy is at stake in polls in Slovakia and Poland | Opinions
In recent years, populism, nationalism and illiberalism have increasingly come to dominate…
This time around Brazil can and must do the anti-hunger fight right | Opinions
The global hunger crisis is flashing red on all fronts, exacerbated by…
The benefits of Afghanistan’s mineral riches may not be so forthcoming | Opinions
In late August, the Taliban interim government signed several contracts worth $6.5bn…
Developing Afghanistan’s mines will uplift Afghans | Opinions
Afghanistan is one of the world’s most resource-rich nations in the world,…
Jann Wenner: Pay attention to the man behind the curtain | Opinions
This weekend a cultural firestorm erupted around remarks Jann Wenner, co-founder of…
A day in the life of the American dream | Opinions
The day after my father died in August in Washington, DC, I…
Do not forget the people of the Atlas Mountains | Opinions
When I was a child, we used to travel to the Atlas…
Palestinian authoritarianism has its roots in the Oslo Accords | Opinions
On September 13, 1993, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister…
China’s ‘beautiful Xinjiang’ continues to oppress Uighurs | Opinions
During his visit to the Chinese province of Xinjiang on August 26, …
Oslo is dead, long live the peace process | Opinions
The Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, reached in Oslo and signed in Washington, DC…
Fifty years after Chile’s coup, the region still not safe from US meddling | Opinions
Today is the 50th anniversary of a devastating military coup in Chile…
As Iraq backslides on gender equality, where are its women MPs? | Opinions
In early August, the Iraqi Culture and Media Commission issued a directive banning the…
At the scene of the annual graverobbing of Dr Martin Luther King Jr | Opinions
It is always an awkward moment, finding yourself emerging from the fugitive…
What we are witnessing in Africa is not an anti-colonial revolution | Opinions
On August 17, Arikana Chihombori-Quao, former permanent representative of the African Union…
Trump is back and the liberal American media are loving it | Opinions
On August 14, the evening of former US President Donald Trump’s fourth…
Feeding big agribusiness, starving Africans | Opinions
On September 5, the annual Africa Food Systems Forum, organised by the…
Prigozhin’s life and death exposed the rot in the Russian state | Opinions
On June 23, the power vertical President Vladimir Putin had carefully constructed…
We need to reclaim football | Opinions
As Spanish fans celebrated their team’s victory over England in the Women’s…
Prigozhin’s death is good news for Ukraine | Opinions
On August 23, the news of Wagner mercenary group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s…
Facebook should pay for what it did to my people, Rohingya | Opinions
I am from a village called Nga Yent Change in western Myanmar.…
Sanction elites to stop Lebanon from becoming a failed state | Opinions
Lebanon is four years into one of the worst financial crises in…
Deja Vu: The dark prospect of Trump 2.0 | Opinions
I have been reluctant to write yet another Donald Trump-related piece considering…
The legacy of chemical attacks and other atrocities won’t give Syria peace | Opinions
The chemical attack by Syrian government forces on Eastern Ghouta ten years…
Forgetting the Ottoman past has done the Arabs no good | Opinions
Imperialism is a difficult subject to tackle in the Arab world. The…
Liberia has suffered 20 years of ‘negative peace’. It’s time for change | Opinions
On a typical weekday at St Peter’s Lutheran Church in Monrovia, children…
French mistakes helped create Africa’s coup belt | Opinions
Africa’s Sahel, home to some of the world’s poorest, most politically unstable…
Biden should learn from Lula’s antiracism | Opinions
For almost 50 years, the United States Department of State has published…
The true face of Israel’s protest movement | Opinions
In a glowing profile, the New York Times recently characterised Israeli particle…
In the dragon’s shadow: US peace-dealing and wheeling in the Middle East | Opinions
Over the past few months, the administration of US President Joe Biden…
The reset in the US strategy on engaging the Taliban may work | Opinions
Since the Taliban took over Kabul in 2021, the United States has…
Our response to childhood sexual violence is part of the problem | Opinions
I was 16 when I went to the office of a member…
#MeToo movement, it turns out, was just a fleeting moment | Opinions
The #MeToo movement was, it would appear, nothing but a fleeting moment.…
How al-Bashir and Putin pressed the self-destruct button | Opinions
When in 2003, a rebellion erupted in Sudan’s Darfur region, triggered by…
Israel: Impunity comes home to roost | Opinions
The contention that the roots of Israel’s current political crisis are to…
At long last, there is real hope for peace in Yemen | Opinions
Mustn’t jinx anything by talking about it too loudly. But for the…
The end of affirmative action will also hurt white students | Opinions
The recent Supreme Court decision to ban the consideration of race in…
Is Netanyahu good for the Palestinians? | Opinions
“Netanyahu: That’s Good for the Jews”, or so read the posters circulated…
Ruto unmasked: Breaking the rules of Kenya’s game of thrones | Opinions
At the end of January 2018, Kenya’s veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga…
Sudan is heading towards complete state collapse | Opinions
As a result of a series of bloody conflicts, bad leadership, endemic…
The international community must stand up to Myanmar’s junta | Opinions
A year ago today, Myanmar awoke to the news that its military…
Cambodia’s sham election might be Hun Sen’s last | Opinions
When I first met Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen, I didn’t have…
The Supreme Court is so corrupt … | Opinions
When my kids were growing up, there were lots of Chuck Norris…
Are you ready for a digital death? | Opinions
In mid-June, after I had been in Italy for two weeks, I…