OUTGOING PRESIDENT MAHAMADOU ISSOUFOU LAYING A GOOD FOUNDATION FOR DEMOCRACY IN NIGER
Outgoing President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger is stepping down after having served his two five-year terms at the helm of the country. The move is in itself unprecedented in a region where its not very common to have leaders calling it a day and allowing the process...
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Palestinian Covid vaccine efforts thwarted by Israel.
As the Coronavirus pandemic continues to overwhelm healthcare systems around the globe, a beacon of light presented itself in the form of the Covid-19 vaccine. As nations hasten their efforts to vaccinate their populations in the hope of decreasing the toll that the...
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Is the ICC decision to investigate Israel for war crimes a game changer?
In a historic departure after receiving more than 9,000 complaints about alleged crimes in more than 139 countries, the ICC has shifted its singular gaze from Africa to investigate Israel for war crimes committed against the Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and...
France in the dock for Islamophobia
France faces a political hot potato if the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) agrees to probe complaints about unfair and targeted attack on Islam and Muslims. The complaints arise from a carefully coordinated campaign by a coalition of human rights and civil...
Calling on South Africa to grant Visa free travel access for Palestinians
A year after South Africa became a unitary, non racial democracy, it established full diplomatic relations with Palestine. A few years later (1997), the father of the nation Nelson Mandela acknowledged that “our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of...
Tug of War over British colonised Chagos Islands — US Military Base in Occupied Diego Garcia part of Storm.
The British government is outraged by the latest ruling of the Maritime Law Tribunal of the United Nations which dismissed Britain's claims of sovereignty over the Chagos Islands. In a harsh rebuke of Britain's failure to comply with an earlier ruling by the...