Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has borrowed more than a few pages from Donald Trump’s playbook over the past couple of years.Since taking office, he has attacked the system that propelled […]
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Back to news homeAfghanistan’s neighbours need to step in if they want stability
The withdrawal of the United States and NATO forces from Afghanistan has put a crucial choice before the country’s neighbours. As foreign troops are leaving and Taliban fighters are advancing, […]
Assange vs the violence of imperial ‘humanitarianism’
In the United Kingdom court decision sparing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from extradition to the United States (for now, pending appeal), the intimately symbiotic relationship between humanitarianism and violence was […]
It is time to rethink international development cooperation
2021 is here and the world is still struggling with one of the most devastating pandemics of modern times. Even certain developed economies have found themselves unable to efficiently respond […]
Radical social change in Nigeria beyond #EndSARS
2020 is the year we wish we could erase from memory and, if possible, imagine it never happened. But it did happen and some events like #EndSARS and the massacre […]
What is the fight over the ‘COVID relief bill’ all about?
On December 21, the United States Senate finally passed a pandemic relief bill. The most attention-grabbing part of this legislation is the direct payments of $600 to almost every American.A day later […]