by Iqbal Jassat | Apr 6, 2019 | Breaking News, MRN articles, MRN Views, World News
Cynics may call it politicking to garner Muslim votes for the ruling African National Congress (ANC) on the eve of South Africa’s crucial May 2019 national elections. Others, especially from Israel’s local pressure groups, may suggest that the ANC has...
by Mustafa B Mheta | Apr 5, 2019 | Africa, MRN articles, MRN Views, World News
In 1967, Colonel Gaddafi inherited one of the poorest nations in Africa. However, by the time he was assassinated, Gaddafi had turned Libya into Africa’s wealthiest nation. Libya had the highest GDP per capita and life expectancy on the continent, fewer people lived...
by Iqbal Jassat | Apr 3, 2019 | MRN articles, MRN Views, World News
It ought not to surprise anyone that autocratic Arab regimes, rightwing groups in Europe, Israeli propagandists and a host of right-leaning think tanks, all have a common interest to fuel Islamophobia. And not only does it derive from shared values of prejudice, the...
by Mustafa B Mheta | Mar 27, 2019 | Africa, Local News, MRN articles, MRN Views, World News
The issue of Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara has once again divided the African Union (AU). Morocco decided as a counter, to hold a parallel conference on the same day that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) was holding a solidarity conference on...
by Ibrahim Vawda | Mar 26, 2019 | Breaking News, MRN articles, MRN Views, Press Releases, World News
In a hastily completed White House ceremony President Donald Trump signed a decree granting official US recognition to Israel’s illegal annexation of Syria’s Golan Heights. On the surface it seems as nothing has changed because Israel has illegally occupied and...
by Iqbal Jassat | Mar 18, 2019 | Breaking News, MRN articles, MRN Views, Opinion, World News
Violent brutality often seen on cinema screens as well as TV and online broadcasts – a hallmark of Hollywood, always ends with a sigh of relief in the knowledge that fiction triumphed over reality. “Dead” actors wake up and walk, ready to...
