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Tsitsi Dangarembga pictured after receiving bail following her arrest in Harare on July 31.
(Photo: Jekesai Njikizana)

Tsitsi Dangarembga: Are we mourning ourselves, each other and this state we are in?

The author discusses the trilogy of novels that propelled her onto the Booker shortlist, and their relevance to present-day Zimbabwe

A foreign journalist videotapes a painting by French street artist Christian Guemy, a.k.a. ‘C215’ in tribute to members of Charlie Hebdo newspaper who were killed on on January 07, 2015 by jihadist gunmen, in Paris on September 01, 2020 in Paris, France. 14 alleged accomplices in the attacks, which also targeted a Jewish supermarket, will go on trial in Paris on September 02, 2020. (Marc Piasecki/Getty Images)

Trial opens over Charlie Hebdo terror attacks that stunned France

14 people accused of helping jihadist gunmen storm the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket went on trial on Wednesday, five years after three days of…

The ability to covertly navigate the dark web is a holy grail for security services trying to crack down on illicit trafficking and prevent terror attacks.

French start-up offers ‘dark web’ compass, but not for everyone

Over the past five years, Aleph has indexed 1.4 billion links and 450 million documents across some 140 000 dark websites

Paris Attacks: Social media a measure of solidarity

Many complain of Western bias, but others say citizens in countries like Nigeria should take responsibility for drawing the world’s attention.

The “hard-fought” negotiations to develop a landmark United Nations treaty to end plastic pollution closed on Friday without agreement and have been extended again

Radicalisation is not measurable or predictable

The Paris attackers were known fanatics who evaded police surveillance.

French satirical weekly

Editor behind Denmark’s Mohammed cartoons steps down

The Danish editor who commissioned the Mohammed cartoons that triggered deadly protests a decade ago says he’s leaving the Jyllands-Posten newspaper.

Beware of bigotry veiled as satire

‘Charlie’ represents a hierarchy of Western ideals to which not everyone subscribes.

Blind-sided: African governments and people have failed to act in solidarity in the fight against terror on the continent and their approach to the threat is shambolic and unco-ordinated.

Africa lacks vision in fight against terror

The continent’s leaders have not shown enough commitment to combating the scourge.

Charlie Hebdo sticks to its pencils

The magazine has shown in its defiant "survivor" edition that it remains unbowed, printing five million copies despite a readership of just 60 000.

Charlie Hebdo survivor: ‘I didn’t want to stare death in the face’

Sigolène Vinson survived the attack on the magazine and has given a chilling account of how one of the terrorist gunmen spared her life.

Editorial: Bring back our courage

We saw that African lives were less important than those of Europeans. Yet what have we done as Africans for the world to see that we value our own?

No, Charlie, free speech has its limits

Extremists – aka cartoonists – poured gunpowder over a simmering racist fire.

The grim genesis of the Charlie attacks

Ending economic and political alienation can bring enlightenment to disaffected Muslims.

Speaking at an investment conference in Riyadh, due to end on Thursday, the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman pledged there would be “no rupture” in ties with Ankara. (Reuters)

Al-Qaeda claims responsibility for ‘Charlie Hebdo’ attack

The terrorist organisation says it was responsible for the attack that saw 17 people killed, as the latest edition of the satirical weekly sold out.

Intolerance and fundamentalism are the real enemies

The Charlie Hebdo attack was a result of our unwillingness and inability to understand and appreciate the beliefs of others, writes Alleyn Diesel.

Prophet Muhammad claims he is Charlie on front page

‘Charlie Hebdo’ is to release its latest edition with a cartoon depicting the Islamic prophet holding a placard saying "Je suis Charlie".

West facing ‘payback’ for colonialism – China paper

A Chinese state-owned newspaper says the West is facing the consequences for slavery and colonialism, following the attack on "Charlie Hebdo".

“Whiteness is comprised of so much nuance as to be invisible … But blackness is amorphous.”

France versus Nigeria: Why African lives matter less

The killings at ‘Charlie Hebdo’ trumped the deaths in Baga because the Western world doesn’t know how to make sense of Africa, writes Verashni Pillay.

President of Nigeria

Nigeria ‘needs same support as France’

There have been calls for the world to support those affected by Boko Haram in Nigeria, as they supported France after the attack on ‘Charlie Hebdo’.

Abbas, Netanyahu march in historic Paris rally

Unlikely scenes at a historic march in Paris against terrorism as Palestine’s Mahmoud Abbas and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu march together.