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Common purpose: Africa Day should reflect the achievement of Agenda 2063’s aims to deliver inclusive and sustainable development to drive the pan-African dream of unity. Photo: AU

Have African leaders betrayed  the dream of 1963?

Africa Day is generally marked as a day for celebration, a day to rejoice at the steps taken by previous generations to fight against and eliminate the effects of colonialism,…

Pan-Africanism: Africa should evolve towards genuine unity and structural freedom or it resigns itself to
managing an elegant fragility while external powers continue to choreograph its destiny.

Africa and our hollow unity

Budgets are rewritten in Washington and Brussels rather than in Harare, Accra or Nairobi

Domineering: President Donald Trump has called allies to contribute to the US-Israeli campaign but he later dismissed the need for a coalition altogether.

Solitary superpower erodes global unity

The message is unmistakable: allies must contribute to the US-Israeli campaign against Iran or face consequences for the partnership itself. Yet, as the conflict enters its…

Brics and the wider multipolar shift have opened a new political field in world affairs. Photo: Ricardo Stuckert / PR

Brics, the GNU and the erasure of African consciousness

The judiciary and legal academy entrenched the same exclusion. They protected the existing order through property law, constitutional abstraction and procedural sanctity. They…

Theresa May leaves after a news conference following a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium December 14 2018. (Eric Vidal/Reuters)

May back in Brussels for latest Brexit showdown

​Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May returned to Brussels on Thursday for a showdown with EU leaders

The tour, which will also take her to Kenya, is part of a campaign to promote Britain’s global ambitions after Brexit. (AFP)

May takes Brexit deal to rebellious MPs

​British Prime Minister Theresa May will on Thursday begin trying to sell her Brexit deal to Parliament

Britain has been on a strict diet of austerity measures that curbed spending and raised taxes in the wake of the financial crisis. (Justin Tallis/AFP)

Britain eyes higher growth in Brexit year

​Britain has ramped up its economic growth outlook for next year, when the country will exit the European Union

The May 23 vote looms with Britain in a deep political crisis over its stalled departure from the European Union after nearly half a century of membership. (Toiga Ackerman/Reuters)

Britain readies last annual budget before Brexit

Concern is mounting that Britain will exit the EU in March without a deal in place with Brussels

A truck loaded with logged trees is pictured at one of the last primeval forests in Europe

Poland illegally logged in ancient forest — EU

The country’s rightwing government broke the law by logging in one of Europe’s last primeval forests setting up a clash between Brussels and Warsaw.

Paris-Brussels network a ‘supercell’ of extremism

A vast network of people have been linked to terrorist organisation the Islamic State that claimed responsibility for the Paris and Brussels attacks.

Released Brussels terrorism suspect proclaims innocence

A man arrested in connection with the Brussels bombing was released after no evidence found was linking him to the attacks, according to prosecutors

Paris, Brussels jihadist network: what we know

Following attacks in Paris and now Brussels, investigators continue to track down those responsible.

SA officials in Brussels confirmed safe

South African diplomatic workers in the capital of Belgium were unharmed by Tuesday’s attacks.

Solidarity: The Eiffel Tower in Paris is lit up in the black

‘It is all of Europe that is hit’

Belgium’s neighbours have rallied in support after this week’s ‘acts of war’ that shook Brussels.

Bombers’ links to Paris shootings raise intel questions

One of the el-Bakraoui brothers is believed to have provided ammunition and weapons for the Paris attacks.

Fifteen killed in Brussels explosions (and counting)

Four days after the arrest of a suspect of the Paris attack that killed 130 people, blasts have gone off at Brussels airport and a metro station.

European Union cracks down on rebellion

European Union cracks down on rebellion

Brussels has condemned Spain for planning to go against European Commission rules and not focus on its targets.

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More pie, archbishop?

A prankster has released footage of the leader of Belgium’s Catholic Church, mired in sex and homophobia scandals, being hit by custard pies.

Lifting sanctions will give Zim a chance, says Zuma

Jacob Zuma on Wednesday told European parliamentarians that lifting sanctions against Zimbabwe would help the country work through its problems.

EU unveils reforms to make markets safer

Banks will be more closely scrutinised under EU plans unveiled on Wednesday to apply lessons from the credit crunch and better protect investors.