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A world re-imagined: In the cult movie Mad Max, all economies have crashed and the fight for survival is a battle to control energy or fuel in a post-apocalyptic world.

Welcome to the age of empire

The South African government has navigated this period remarkably well. It has not capitulated to any of the stronger blocs, whilst retaining its dignity and independent views

Proteas bowler Lungi Ngidi celebrates during South Africa’s T20 World Cup match against Afghanistan. (Proteas Men/X)

‘I’ve never been that stressed’: Ngidi and the Proteas survive a double Super Over epic

South Africa’s victory over Afghanistan felt less like a sporting triumph and more like an exorcism

Stop the war: Begged not to start the war against Ukraine, Vladimir Putin went ahead to break a decade-long global taboo of bigger nations invading their smaller counterparts.

Russia’s new old imperialism

It takes true evil to send unwitting, unprepared young men, complete strangers to the whole Ukraine-Russia context, into Europe’s worst meat grinder since World War Two

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. A 0.3% tax would generate enough to secure life’s necessities for many tens of millions of the world’s most vulnerable. Photo: File

G20, endorse a tax on the world’s ultra-rich to feed the world’s starving

A 0.3% tax would generate enough to secure life’s necessities for many tens of millions of the world’s most vulnerable

Tabraiz Shamsi of South Africa celebrates after dismissing Karim Janat of Afghanistan (not pictured) LBW during the ICC Men’s T20 Cricket World Cup West Indies USA 2024 Semi-Final match between South Africa and Afghanistan at Brian Lara Cricket Academy on June 26, 2024 in Tarouba, Trinidad And Tobago. (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images)

South Africa thrash Afghanistan to reach T20 World Cup final

Fast bowlers Kagiso Rabada and Anrich Nortje maintained the relentless pressure with two wickets apiece at the Brian Lara Stadium in Trinidad

Afghan women and girls take part in a protest in front of the Ministry of Education in Kabul on March 26, 2022, demanding that high schools be reopened for girls. (Photo by Ahmad SAHEL ARMAN / AFP)

The Taliban cannot defeat Afghan women’s thirst for education

The Taliban has eroded the rights of women. But Afghans are not taking the regime’s draconian policies lying down, and nor should the rest of the world

A child displaced by drought holds her nose as she walks past the rotting carcasses of goats that died from hunger and thirst on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia. People from across Gedo in Somalia have been displaced due to drought conditions and forced to come to Dollow, in the southwest, to search for aid. Somalia has suffered three failed rainy seasons in a row, making this the worst drought in decades, and 6 million people are in crisis levels of food insecurity. The problems are being compounded by the rising costs of food prices because of the Ukraine war. Hence, hundreds of thousands of livestock have died from hunger and thirst. (Sally Hayden/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Hungry for action campaign: Time for a food and finance revolution

The world must act now because the food system is broken and families from Mozambique to Ireland don’t know where their next meal will come from

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Did Nancy Pelosi accelerate Chinese-Russian military cooperation with her Taiwan visit?

China had warned of ‘serious consequences’ in the lead-up to the visit but has avoided any significant military escalation so far

Security forces inspect at the site after a Russian missile attack as Russia-Ukraine war continues in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine on July 19, 2022. (FILE PHOTO by Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Russia’s war on Ukraine could turn private

The expanding use of private military and security companies in recent years suggests that they may take a leading role as the Ukraine conflict develops

A rebel fighter celebrates as his comrades fire a rocket barrage toward the positions of troops loyal to Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi April 14, 2011 west of Ajdabiyah, Libya.  Rebels exchanged artillery and rocket fire with loyalist troops west of Ajdabiyah April 14 as the confict engulfing Libya continued.  (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Nato uses West’s military muscle to force its way into Africa

The AU lacked a security apparatus of its own and Nato and the West were only too happy to step into the breach

In the time of wars and refugees, let us now talk peace

When Russia illegally invaded Ukraine, was not that the moment for the United Nations to send its secretary general to Moscow to demand a ceasefire?

Fated: American soldiers in World War I.  (Photo by FRANCE PRESSE VOIR / AFP)

Europe is sleepwalking into another world war

Russia is at war with Ukraine because it is at war with Nato, which is commanded by the United States

“Vintage photograph of HMS Centurion taken in 1923, in Malta harbour.   She took part in the Battle of Jutland in the first world war, and she also took part in world war two.  NOTE: Real historic photo so the quality is not great.” (Getty Images)

Europe is sleepwalking into another world war

Russia is at war with Ukraine because it is at war with Nato, which is commanded by the United States

Eradicating wild polio would eradicate so much tragedy

Over the past two years, the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted efforts to combat vaccine-preventable diseases, including polio

Peril: People from Africa, Middle East and India use the Ukraine-Poland Medyka pedestrian border crossing. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/AFP)

Ukraine refugees: West is empathic – if you are blonde

Europe has changed its attitude towards Ukraine refugees

Taliban members patrol the streets of Afghan capital Kabul on August 16, 2021, as the Taliban takes control of Afghanistan. (Photo by Sayed Khodaiberdi Sadat/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The terrible fate facing the Afghan people

The perilous situation in the country is not the result only of Taliban activities. It is the result of the sanctions imposed on Afghanistan.

US President Joe Biden listens as Vice president Kamala Harris (L) speaks during an event at the White House with members of the National Governors Association on January 31, 2022 in Washington, DC. The National Governors Association concludes its three day winter meeting today.  (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

US politicians paper over the social problems caused by capitalism

Mainstream American politicians — establishment figures in both major parties — apply the denial and displacement mantra to many problems, especially inflation

A factory of the National Moroccan phosphates company (OCP/public) in Marca, near Laayoune, the capTial of Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara. As a global leader in the market for phosphate and its derivatives, OCP has been a key player in the international market since its founding in 1920, the world’s largest exporter of phosphate rock and phosphoric acid and one of the world’s largest fertiliser producers.  (Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP)

Morocco drives a war in Western Sahara for its phosphates

Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara is about the presence of resources, especially phosphates that make up 72% of the world’s reserves. Phosphate is used in fertiliser, a key…

Women must be allowed to determine their own future

Gender equality is a political priority

Here’s how the EU is continuing to support women and girls worldwide

Realpolitik: The Taliban knows its population depends on income from the poppy trade. Afghan men surround bags of heroin and hashish as they negotiate and check quality at a drug market on the outskirts of Kandahar. Photo: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images

Afghanistan’s poppy fields bloom

It is not clear yet whether the Taliban government will clamp down on the illicit trade