US, UK forces repel ‘largest attack’ by Houthis as German and Holland skip Red Sea shipping channel
US Central Command said no injuries nor damage were reported, adding that this was the 26th Houthi attack on commercial shipping lanes in the Red Sea since November 19.
130 staff in five Ecuadorian prisons held hostage by inmates protesting president’s plan to build high security prisons
Authorities have said little about the prison hostages, although the SNAI prisons agency has said guards account for 125 of the hostages, while 14 are administrative staff. Eleven people were freed on Tuesday, it said.
Globalisation: Why Non-Aligned Movement is a contradiction in a world interlinked by Internet
Political powers are resisting Internet and trying to role back into the 20th century when the World Wide Web was emerging. Despite the increasingly intricate interconnections and interdependences, some countries are stuck with the idea of nonalignment.
Sub-Saharan Africa was most conflict-affected region globally in 2023 with six regions at war
Central Africa Republic military. The region continued this unfortunate status with conflict concentrated in four adjacent theatres – the Sahel, the Lake Chad Basin, the Great Lakes Region and East Africa, the respected think tank reported. Other conflict areas are the Central African Republic (CAR) and Mozambique. “Most conflicts, the survey has it, “have internal, regional and international elements” contributing to “their intractability”.
Why Sahel is attracting France, Russia, China and US, and a part of Africa to watch in 2024
Russia has openly backed military regimes in Mali and Burkina Faso and warned against any military intervention in Niger when the military took power. Furthermore, the Wagner group, the controversial private military company which is controlled by Russia, cooperates with some countries in the Sahel.
Expert breaks down how South Africa v Israel case will be processed at Hague-based world court
The first time a case was brought to the ICJ alleging violation of the Genocide Convention was in 1993 by Bosnia against Yugoslavia. The second case was in 2019 by The Gambia against Myanmar. The third case was by Ukraine against Russia following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Key player in Covid origin and vaccine scandals resort to ‘I don’t recall’ to evade questions in pandemic probe
Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois and a bioweapons expert who drafted the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, told The Defender Fauci should be prosecuted.
Israel hires renowned legal minds, including a Holocaust survivor, to battle genocide claims at ICC
The genocide charge strikes at the heart of Israel’s national identity. The country sees itself as a bulwark of security for Jews after six million were killed in the Holocaust. International support for Israel’s creation in 1948 was deeply rooted in outrage over Nazi atrocities.
Politics and religion: How Uganda’s Museveni pulverised Christianity into a wild god for governance
In The Prince, Machiavelli prescribes what makes a ruler appear invincible: possessing prowess and being able to build own dynasty on own terms or agenda, free from influence from anyone including the clergy, academics, intellectuals, even own family, executive, legislature, judiciary or Constitution.
While Uganda’s Afro-fusion artist Bobi Wine symbolises Africa’s brittle democracy, youth interventions are recycling authoritarian politics
Africa has the world’s largest youth population. By 2030, 75 per cent of the African population will be under the age of 35. The number of young Africans aged 15-24 is projected to reach 500 million in 2080. While population dynamics vary across the continent, most sub-Saharan countries have a...
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