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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.

African Union High-Level Review of Governance, Peace and Security Policy Frameworks

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 required reforms appear straightforward but enacting them is a formidable task because the obstacles are not technical, but political. File: Photo

The UN at 80 must not be sidetracked by global hegemons

The UN80 initiative weakens multilateralism and empowers a minority of self-interested nations, prioritising military spending over global crises

US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Africa and the US ‘non-proposal’ on changes to the UN Security Council

The offer makes 1.4 billion Africans ‘permanent’ second-class citizens, devoid of decision-making power on the world body

Judges take their seats prior to the hearing of Israel’s defense at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against South Africa’s genocide case in Gaza against Israel on January 12, 2024, in the Hague, Netherlands. On day one of the trial, South Africa presented hard evidence in the case it filed on Dec. 29, accusing Israel of genocide and violations of the UN Genocide Convention with its actions in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7. (Photo by Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu via Getty Images)

International Court of Justice survives the judicial stress test

In effect the World Court has demanded that Israel cease the military actions causing the death and injury of Palestinians in Gaza

A high-level meeting of the U.N. Security Council is held at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 22, 2022, to discuss the Ukraine crisis. (Photo by Kyodo News via Getty Images)

Time to do away with ‘dysfunctional’ United Nations Security Council

The council’s inability to intervene through mediation and diplomacy has led to authoritarian regimes that defy the will of the international system

US navy confirms UFOs recorded by pilots are real.

Battle for the truth about UFOs

The United States Navy has confirmed that three videos of unidentified aerial phenomena were taken by Navy pilots in 2004 and 2015

(Delwyn Verasamy)

Global virus proves we are one

The disease has shown that there is more that unites us as human beings than that which divides us through artificial borders

US navy confirms UFOs recorded by pilots are real.

US navy confirms UFOs recorded by pilots are real

There are no programmes designed to address the question of how humanity will interact with prospective interstellar visitors from outer space

US navy confirms UFOs recorded by pilots are real.

Visitors from outer space – or military aircraft made on Earth ?

Are China or Russia ahead of the US in aerial technology or are intergalactic visitors trying to make friends with us?

Nanosatellites are relatively small

‘Aliens’ could be our non-Earth relatives

A change in perspective of how we view other beings could help the human race

The most powerful countries continue to violate the provisions of international law with impunity.

ICC ‘no longer useful’ if only prosecuting Africans

The legitimacy of international law is seriously undermined if it only applies to one section of humanity and not another, writes Tim Murithi.

International law: Bruised by prejudice

The ANC is taking SA out of the International Criminal Court, claiming it is no longer useful.

Supporters of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta

ICC must maintain its credibility

Africans say the focus on its leaders is proof that the International Criminal Court is just an expensive and elaborate sham, writes Tim Murithi.

The African Union Commision’s logo at its headquarters in Addis Ababa.

Africa Day: Development, reconciliation and the African Renaissance

Carefully honed and systematically applied reconciliation policies could serve to strengthen cooperation and renewal on the continent.

AU calls for pan-African response to Mali jihad

As French-led intervention exposes weakness in collective African leadership, summit has acknowledgeg the need for greater Ecowas presence.