The modern international order is collapsing under the weight of its own hypocrisy, and millions of people around the world are no longer pretending not to notice it. Every year, Western governments lecture the world about democracy, human rights, freedom of navigation, international law, sovereignt...
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, much of the Western world expected a swift and unified response from Africa, particularly from the African Union, whose founding principles emphasise territorial integrity, respect for borders, and the peaceful resolution of disputes, yet what followed w...
Few exchanges surrounding the Russia-Ukraine war capture the human cost of prolonged conflict more starkly than the argument that erupted after the death of a 32-year-old Ukrainian man named Volodymyr, who drowned while attempting to escape military recruitment officers. According to an account publ...
On the 9th of May 2026, while millions across Russia, parts of Eastern Europe, Central Asia and even sections of the wider world marked Victory Day with remembrance ceremonies, concerts, military tributes and solemn reflection over the defeat of Nazi Germany, the European Union once again attempted...
For years, one of the most confident assumptions in Western political and media circles has been that the Islamic Republic of Iran survives only through fear, and that the moment its leadership fell, the country would erupt in celebration. It was repeated so often by officials and commentators that...
Germany’s political landscape has entered a difficult new phase after the September 20 state elections delivered a historic setback for Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democratic Union. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) won about 38.3% of the vote, while...
Every year on May 1, most of the world pauses, not for spectacle or empty symbolism, but to recognise the dignity of labour, the sacrifices of workers, and the long and often bloody struggle for basic rights that today are taken for granted in many places, yet in the United States and Canada, that s...
The war in Ukraine has entered another dangerous phase, one in which the distance between the battlefield and the capitals of Europe is becoming increasingly difficult to measure. On September 20, Ukraine launched what Russian authorities described as the largest drone attack on Moscow since the beg...
Senator Lindsey Graham died late on the night of July 11, following what his office described as a brief and sudden illness. A preliminary report from the District of Columbia medical examiner listed the cause as an aortic dissection tied to cardiovascular disease. He was 71, and had returned from h...
There was a time when travelling across Nigeria could be an adventure rather than an act of calculation.
In a recent reflection, Nigerian lawyer Abdul Mahmud recalled a five-week road journey he undertook in 1998 with his girlfriend, travelling from Lagos through Benin, Warri, Port Harcourt, Aba,...
