Escalation between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah fuels fears that the conflict will expand beyond many borders ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | Clashes in the last year between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah in southern Lebanon have largely been confined to a tit-for-tat border conflict — until now. In …
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African leaders must push for solutions beyond military intervention ANALYSIS | ANTHONI VAN NIEUWKERK | In response to the deepening crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the United Nations Security Council established a panel of independent experts in 2023 to examine the situation and provide it with options to …
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ANALYSIS | RONALD MUSOKE | Up until January, this year, Widat Muhammed Ali, 37, was a practicing lawyer in Sudan. She lived happily with her husband of 11 years, who is also a lawyer, together with their children who were studying at an international school. Then fighting erupted between two rival …
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They handed to the Jewish people land they confiscated from Palestinians and violently repressed their nationalism COMMENT | SAURAV SARKAR | Israeli flags are flying over all government buildings in the United Kingdom currently, but this isn’t the first time the former imperial hegemon has put its weight behind Zionism. In …
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Kiev, Ukraine | Xinhua | NATO will not accept Ukraine as a member until the end of the conflict, the bloc’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said. He made the statement during a public lecture at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, reported the Ukrainian government-run Ukrinform news agency …
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Why we would be wise to give it another chance before we resign ourselves to the capitalist-socialist conflict COMMENT | ROBERT SKIDELSKY | In 2009, while the world economy was still reeling from the global financial crisis, Nobel laureate economist Robert Lucas observed that “everyone is a Keynesian in the foxhole.” …
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Cairo, Egypt | Xinhua | Egypt announced Sunday the plan to host a summit meeting for Sudan’s neighboring countries on Thursday to find peaceful solutions to the Sudan crisis. Leaders attending the meeting would discuss the creation of effective mechanisms in the region and internationally for settlement of the crisis as …
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Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Kenyan former President Uhuru Kenyatta has called on various sides of a conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to embrace dialogue in order to achieve a lasting peace in the troubled region. Speaking in Nairobi on Friday evening after meeting with stakeholders on …
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | The number of people arriving in Ethiopia fleeing from armed conflict in Sudan has surpassed 31,000, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has disclosed. The UN migration agency, in its latest situation update issued Friday, said the armed conflict in Sudan is forcing hundreds of thousands of …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Despite the tentative ceasefire and lull in fighting in Sudan, few believe this is the end of the conflict and there are questions about how things could unfold in the next few weeks and months. The BBC has been speaking to some Sudan analysts to …
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