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 MRN | Apr 1, 2019 | Opinion, Palestine, World News
Haidar Eid on March 30, 2019 Today I participated in the Great March of Return with tens of thousands of Gazans. We marched on the fence of the Gaza concentration camp marking Land Day and the one-year anniversary of the March. We had the mother of all marches,...
by MRN | Mar 29, 2019 | Middle East, Press Releases, World News
· PALESTINE LAND DAY AND THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT MARCH OF RETURN · SPECIAL GUEST BADEE DWAIK FROM THE OCCUPIED CITY OF HEBRON · LAUNCH OF POETRY ANTHOLOGY: SONG FOR PALESTINE BY OMAR ‘DON’ MATERRA The Palestine Solidarity Alliance joins the call of the 15th...
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...
