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Tim Murithi is head of the Peacebuilding Interventions Programme at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town and editor of the Routledge Handbook of Africa’s International Relations.
For the remainder of the year, the African Union Commission will continue to guide the review process with a view to generating a High-Level Panel Report
The UN80 initiative weakens multilateralism and empowers a minority of self-interested nations, prioritising military spending over global crises
The offer makes 1.4 billion Africans ‘permanent’ second-class citizens, devoid of decision-making power on the world body
In effect the World Court has demanded that Israel cease the military actions causing the death and injury of Palestinians in Gaza
The council’s inability to intervene through mediation and diplomacy has led to authoritarian regimes that defy the will of the international system
The United States Navy has confirmed that three videos of unidentified aerial phenomena were taken by Navy pilots in 2004 and 2015
The disease has shown that there is more that unites us as human beings than that which divides us through artificial borders
There are no programmes designed to address the question of how humanity will interact with prospective interstellar visitors from outer space
Are China or Russia ahead of the US in aerial technology or are intergalactic visitors trying to make friends with us?
A change in perspective of how we view other beings could help the human race
The legitimacy of international law is seriously undermined if it only applies to one section of humanity and not another, writes Tim Murithi.
The ANC is taking SA out of the International Criminal Court, claiming it is no longer useful.
Africans say the focus on its leaders is proof that the International Criminal Court is just an expensive and elaborate sham, writes Tim Murithi.
Carefully honed and systematically applied reconciliation policies could serve to strengthen cooperation and renewal on the continent.
As French-led intervention exposes weakness in collective African leadership, summit has acknowledgeg the need for greater Ecowas presence.