How months of tensions led to Sudan’s coup
CAIRO—The military coup in Sudan threatens to wreck the country’s fragile transition to democracy, more than two years after a popular uprising forced the...
Labor unrest explodes around the Continent for wage hikes and back pay
(GIN)—As American workers are demanding raises after years of stagnant wages, African workers are also seeking salary hikes, back pay and other benefits in...
UN rights experts condemn U.S. expulsion of Haitian migrants and refugees
A group of UN human rights experts have condemned the United States of America’s recent and ongoing systematic mass deportation of Haitian migrants and...
Iran: U.S. should lift sanctions to prove it wants talks
TEHRAN, Iran—Iran’s president said Oct. 18 the United States should lift the sanctions on his country to prove it is serious about restarting stalled...
The important history of ancient Sudan
KHARTOUM, Sudan—My first response after touring the Sudan National Museum in Khartoum was that it was a sin and a shame that a country...
UN: 10,000 children killed or maimed during Yemen’s long war
GENEVA—More than 10,000 children in Yemen have been killed or injured in violence linked to years of war in the impoverished country, a spokesman...
No tech for Apartheid’: 40+ groups demand Amazon and Google ditch Israeli military
By Brett Wilkins, CommonDreams.org A day after hundreds of Amazon and Google workers condemned their employers for complicity in Israel’s human rights violations against Palestinians,...
African winner of Nobel book prize ignites debate in Zanzibar
(GIN)—Out of 118 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2021, only six have gone to African writers with only two to Black Africans. So, there...
‘Our imagination was violated’: France to return African art
PARIS—French President Emmanuel Macron said in early October that his country will return 26 African artworks—royal thrones, ceremonial altars, revered statues—to Benin later in...
Palestinian captives launch hunger strike amid Israeli crackdown
Hundreds of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons have launched a hunger strike in protest against the regime’s intensified crackdown on detainees. The Palestinian Prisoners Club...