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...
Inaki Williams’ parents left Ghana barefooted to Spain, he plans to repay their endurance with Africa Cup of Nations win
Williams played in a friendly for Spain in 2016. But when Ghana was interested in him, he decided to change allegiance, with Spain no longer calling him. His decision was influenced in part by a conversation with his grandfather, who encouraged him to join the “Black Stars.”
Does Morocco have the drive and verve to repeat Qatar World Cup heroics at Africa Cup of Nations?
Sadio Mane, who took last weekend off to get married, again headlines a Senegal side that, like Morocco, had success over Brazil in a friendly last year and is bristling with experience and talent.
Armed men storm an Ecuador TV studio during a live broadcast as attacks in the country escalate
Ecuador’s attorney general’s office said the 13 people arrested will be charged with terrorism. It tweeted that it will present the charges in coming hours. Ecuadorian law establishes a penalty of up to 13 years in prison for anyone convicted of terrorism.
Billionaire hedge fund manager Ackman backs bid by dissidents for Harvard board seats
Ackman has criticised Harvard for not doing enough to protect its students from antisemitism incidents in the wake of the October attack by the militant Islamist Palestinian group Hamas on Israel and subsequent Israeli military operations in Gaza, as well as for the university’s adoption of diversity and inclusion programs he argues stifle meritocracy.
