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AQIM helped take control of large parts of northern Mali. The photo shows AQIM’s execution of a Tuareg in northern Mali in 2016 -Image Spplied

The Sahel region has become the gateway for jihadist terrorism in Africa

The three Sahelian countries — Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger — which have experienced military coups, have not been able to contain the growing episodes of terrorism they have…

Qasem Soleimani received the Zolfaghar Order from Ali Khamenei, the 87-year-old Supreme Leader who was assassinated in the US and Israeli strikes against Iran. Photo: khamenei.ir

US/Israel war against International Law

The assassination of Khamenei was another blatant violation of international law. It was also part of a broader strategy to eliminate moderate leaders, whose absence is then used…

We will find out allies among the American people, not its government led by Donald Trump. Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

As Trump releases his remix, we must not lose sight of relationships

We will find out allies among the American people, not its government

The United States is crafting a new foreign policy that keeps the economic superpower at its centre

Where does SA fit into America’s ‘new consensus’?

The United States is crafting a new foreign policy that keeps the economic superpower at its centre

The author’s sister in front of a fire truck on September 12, 2001

9/11: It’s all I’ve ever known

Aaron White was six years old in New York City when the Towers fell. For the lucky ones, life just moved on

11 September 2001: The Manhattan skyline after al-Qaeda flew planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre. Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower at 8.46am and Flight 175 struck the South Tower at 9.03am, killing 2 606 people. Photo: Michel Setboun/Corbis/Getty Images

What difference did 9/11 make to the United States?

When the next terrorist attacks come, will US presidents be able to channel public demand for revenge by precise targeting, explaining the trap that terrorists set, and focusing…

Clothing makes the man: (Above, from left) Uganda’s Milton Obote, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta and Zambia’s Kenneth Kaunda look more restrained in 1967 than later African presidents. (Photo by KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

What your president’s style says about their politics

African leaders’ sartorial choices have been communicating their political orientations for centuries

US curtailment of information on, and access to, contraception and abortion care is a human rights violation

Battery acid, cassava sticks and clothes hangers: We must end the global gag rule

COMMENT: The US’s global gag rule blocks funding to any foreign NGOS that perform abortions, except in very limited cases. The Biden-Harris administration must rescind it

WASHINGTON – MARCH 03:  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg smiles during a photo session with photographers at the U.S. Supreme Court March 3, 2006 in Washington DC.  (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

The bloody battle to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Neither side will hesitate for a second to do anything to win

Former US president Donald Trump. File photo

How the coronavirus pandemic could get Trump re-elected

US President Donald Trump is good at channelling voters’ anger. And anger about the effects of Covid-19 is a factor that could help him win another term

When the Trump administration formally reinstated the gag rule

US gag rule ties SA’s hands

Put a stop to the policy that blocks aid to organisations offering abortion services

Guiding light: A crowd watches the passing of the Kwibuka Flame of Remembrance in Kigali

The intolerable loss of dignity

Obliterating being human is beyond our comprehension and so we invoke evil and dignity – but the wound is indelible

The Donald Trump administration has implemented a “doctrine of withdrawal” with regards to international policies and agreements.

America First or America Alone: The withdrawal agenda

​Since Donald Trump took office in January, the US has abandoned or threatened to quit several international accords under his "America First" policy.

Our president seeks to know his future

CIA lied about brutal and ineffective torture – report

A US Senate report found that the CIA misled the American public about its torture methods after 9/11 and were brutal and pervasive in their actions.

A portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin painted by former US President George W Bush

It’s a long way down, Mr President

From George W Bush’s artistic outlet to Madiba raising funds, past leaders have taken very different paths from the top once their number was up.

Teju Cole on Nigeria and attacks in Kenya

Percy Zvomuya speaks to Nigerian-American writer Teju Cole, who was in South Africa for the Open Book Festival.

Former US president George W Bush with Barack Obama. (AFP)

Obama moves towards war in Syria, raising echoes of Bush

US President Barack Obama is edging the US closer to a war in Syria, raising echoes of George W Bush’s moves before invading Iraq, says a lawmaker.

Obama, Bush commemorate victims of Tanzania’s al-Qaeda bombing

Barack Obama and his predecessor George W Bush have met in Tanzania to commemorate the victims of the 1998 al-Qaeda bombing of the US embassy.

Obama, Bush to honour bombing victims in Tanzania

The White House says US President Barack Obama and former President George W Bush will meet while both leaders are in the East African country.

A Muslim demonstrator holds up a sign during a protest in Bangkok.

West must learn to walk many Arab streets

If events in the Middle East over the past two years have taught us anything, it is that Arab public opinion now matters to the world.