Martin Jay: How EU corruption weakens the West’s Ukraine project
For those who were hoping that the present corruption scandal in Ukraine involving Zelensky’s close aides would blow over and...
Grace Sharp
Osman Mirghani: Sudan and the media war
Sudan is fighting two wars simultaneously. As it wages its war on the ground, it is fighting another equally grave...
Leonid Ragozin: How Ukraine’s scandal is reshaping the war
On November 10, the Ukrainian anticorruption authorities revealed that close associates of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were allegedly involved in...
Awale Kullane: Africa’s democracy is not imported
For far too long, African youth have been told that democracy is something imported, something borrowed, something foreign to their...
Martin Jay: Israel’s nuke threat shows who directs U.S. policy
It is a long-debated subject. Whether it is the U.S. which controls Israel or the other way around. In the...
Trump heightens tensions with South Africa over G20 issue
US President Donald Trump announced that South Africa will not be invited to next year’s G20 summit in Miami. As...
Yossi Mekelberg: UN Resolution falls short on peace for Palestine
Combing through UN Security Council Resolution 2803, I began to question whether it is the case of the international community...
Dr Mustafa Fetouri: Tripoli’s power grab risks deeper division
The Libyan political landscape, long defined by competing governments and institutional fragmentation, has recently delivered its most rent—and perhaps most...
Trump escalates feud with South Africa over G20 dispute
US President Donald Trump announced on November 26 that South Africa will not be invited to next year’s G20 summit,...
Martin Jay: Western media finally confront Ukraine’s bleak reality
It’s hardly news these days that the western press are no longer serving both the U.S. and Ukrainian leader’s interests...
Hafed Al-Ghwell: How corruption fuels Libya’s unseen war
In Libya, the language of state-building is often just a dialect of theft. While political leaders publicly champion sovereignty and...
Dr Ngozi Erondu: US health strategy risks widening inequality
In September, the long-anticipated America First Global Health Strategy (AFGHS) was released, a document whose very title feels inconsistent and...
Lorenzo Maria Pacini: Trump’s plan towards Ukraine’s “peace”
This year could not come to an end without a twist in the conflict in Ukraine. The announcement of the...
Tony Elumelu: Inequality could derail Africa’s AI future
We do not always associate Africa with technology. Yet we have seen in the telecoms sector how the continent can...
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh: A realistic path to Sudan’s peace
The devastating conflict in Sudan, between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces has brought catastrophic human suffering as...
