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On land and sea: On Christmas Day, US President Donald Trump, in coordination with the Nigerian government, ordered Tomahawk missile strikes from a US warship in the Gulf of Guinea against what he termed “ISIS Terrorist Scum” in Islamic State-Sahel camps in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Sokoto.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

The white man’s burden trumps Nigeria

US President Donald Trump has made good on his threat to take military action against Nigeria to save Christians from a “genocide”

  • Adekeye Adebajo
6 min read
Anit-abortion activists hold signs outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on June 24, 2022.(Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
ABORTION

US ‘anti-rights’ groups boost spending in Africa to over $16 million

Christian rights groups have spent millions over four years in efforts to push anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQIA+ agendas

  • Umamah Bakharia
3 min read
The library is located in the heart of Johannesburg and houses more than 1.5 million books, as well as special collections.
CITY OF JOHANNESBURG

Johannesburg Heritage Foundation warns of legal action over continued closure of city library

The library closed its doors in March 2020 with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, and remained shut over ‘structural issues’

  • Aarti Bhana
3 min read
Remember social policy does not a socialist state make. (Reuters)
CAPITALISM

“What are you? Some sort of socialist..?”

It seems like the word “socialism” has become a swear word

  • Rob Forbes
7 min read
EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY

China’s push praised and censured in Mauritius

Sitting under a pair of mango trees and sipping coconut water, Toolsy Poorun (87) says he thought he would live in Terre Rouge forever. But then Chinese investment came to this…

  • Ed Harris
7 min read
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

SA scores well on economic-freedom index

South Africa’s rating of 63,2% ranks it 52nd globally on the Heritage Foundation 2008 Index of Economic Freedom. In a statement released on Monday, Century 21 South Africa — the…

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read