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...
Opinion
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...
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...
Martin Jay: Ukraine faces another corruption scandal
The recent corruption scandal in Ukraine has been making the headlines in the western press with some enlightened so-called ‘experts’...
Lorenzo Maria Pacini: US-China rivalry in the twenty-first century
The competition between the United States and China is not the first major rivalry between powers to raise the issue...
Eddie Monkman: Sudan risks being divided between east and west
Sudan remains embroiled in violence amidst the civil war that has been waged between the de facto government, Sudanese Armed...
Hafed Al-Ghwell: The threats to food and water in North Africa
In North Africa, the consequences of a warming planet are no longer a distant threat. They have morphed into a...
Osman Mirghani: The risks of a short truce in Sudan
The stories emerging from El Fasher would make children's hair turn grey. According to the Yale School of Public Health,...
Maxwell Gomera: It is time to give Africans a stake in African growth
When e-commerce company Jumia wanted to go public in 2019, Africa’s most celebrated start-up didn’t list in Lagos, Nairobi, Kigali or...
