Yet another wave of terrorism hit France this week. A hostage situation unfolded in the sleepy Trebes and to be precise the terrorist drama unfurled in a grocery store, or supermarket. The suspect claiming to be instructed by the IS (Islamic State) (...)
There was never any question that Russian President Vladimir Putin, who won over 76 per cent of the vote in the presidential elections in Russia this week, would not triumph in the polls. The question was how large the margin between Putin and his (...)
In a surprise development, Chinese President Xi Jinping met with South Korean officials last Monday as part of an effort to bring regional powers into line with US President Donald Trump's decision to accept a face-to-face meeting with North Korean (...)
In a surprise development, Chinese President Xi Jinping met with South Korean officials last Monday as part of an effort to bring regional powers into line with US President Donald Trump's decision to accept a face-to-face meeting with North Korean (...)
The trip from Libya to the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa is a treacherous one across the Mediterranean Sea, but it does not deter some African people desperate to seek asylum or a better life in Europe.
The rickety vessels used are not seaworthy, (...)
The trip from Libya to the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa is a treacherous one across the Mediterranean Sea, but it does not deter some African people desperate to seek asylum or a better life in Europe.
The rickety vessels used are not seaworthy, (...)
In the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt, 19 January is a hallowed day, the feast of the Epiphany. I can still remember my grandmother Mounira telling her grandchildren memorable stories of the life of Coptic Christians in days bygone.
She was a (...)
US President Donald Trump used the words “shithole countries” to describe Haiti, El Salvador and various African countries behind closed doors in the Oval Office last week in response to suggestions by US lawmakers that they restore protections for (...)
In the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt, 19 January is a hallowed day, the feast of the Epiphany. I can still remember my grandmother Mounira telling her grandchildren memorable stories of the life of Coptic Christians in days bygone.
She was a (...)
US President Donald Trump used the words “shithole countries” to describe Haiti, El Salvador and various African countries behind closed doors in the Oval Office last week in response to suggestions by US lawmakers that they restore protections for (...)
Why was US President Donald Trump's first tweet of 2018 about the US relationship with Pakistan? The tweet confirmed the strategic importance of Pakistan, a nation of 210 million people that straddles key waterways at the junction of West Asia, (...)
Why was US President Donald Trump's first tweet of 2018 about the US relationship with Pakistan? The tweet confirmed the strategic importance of Pakistan, a nation of 210 million people that straddles key waterways at the junction of West Asia, (...)
For those seeking evidence that Africa was set on a radical overhaul, 2017 was the proof of the pudding. There were political changes galore. In Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa was declared president and long-time leader Robert Mugabe was set aside, (...)
As far as his supporters are concerned, Uhuru Kenyatta's presidential inauguration brought to a close a protracted electoral struggle that degenerated into farcical ethnic and tribal rivalry that threatened to create not just a civil war, but usher (...)
The Zimbabwean crisis has been elevated by the Zimbabwean Defence Forces — or high-ranking generals to be precise. The military's forthright intervention was unprecedented in Zimbabwe and southern Africa. However, military takeovers, invariably (...)
United States President Donald Trump's whistle stop tour of Asia provided an opportunity for critical reflection of American foreign policy under an unconventional and novel administration. First, Trump insulted North Korea's Kim Jong-Un, then, (...)
By the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China had soured. Meanwhile, Japan had metamorphosed from being a lethal enemy of the US to Washington's most trustworthy ally in Asia.
US (...)
The Rohingya, an indigenous Muslim people, are fleeing Myanmar (Burma) in droves. Violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State is nothing new, and clashes between the Buddhist population and the Rohingya have led to deadly communal violence in the past. (...)
One way for Moroccans to make a living in Europe has been petty crime, but most lead perfectly normal lives in Spain and other countries according to local norms and conventions. One of the terrorists of Moroccan descent who attacked crowds in (...)
The Libyan civil war began not with the clash of ideological swords, but with treachery among conflicting clans. The longer the rebels that had fought against the regime of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi waited for peace to arrive, the more (...)
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry invited my sister Samia Nkrumah to deliver a keynote address on Africa Day. And, I took the august opportunity to interview her.
Ms Nkrumah is devoted to the political ideology and philosophy of our late father Kwame (...)
Domestic workers in Egypt, overwhelmingly women, are people who work within an employer's household. There are no official statistics, so nobody knows their true number. Nevertheless, they are not just a number: they are workers with no rights.
What (...)
Wealthy Venezuelan businesspeople are up in arms, and with Washington's full backing they are determined to undermine the Venezuelan government. Venezuela is a nation sitting on some of the world's biggest oil reserves, but it is now the Latin (...)
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama is an Indonesian politician who was serving as the 17th governor of the Indonesian capital Jakarta and the second governor of Chinese ancestry in the predominantly Muslim archipelago. However, Jakarta's first Christian (...)
US President Donald Trump hits hard and helter-skelter. His unpredictability often leaves friend and foe alike confused and confounded.
The predication of the 45th US president to surprise is unnerving. He knows that engagement is also in (...)