Police in Mpumalanga walked into a scene many South Africans hoped belonged to the past. At a church-run South Africa rehab centre in Siyabuswa, officers found about 200 people, some of them chained, in a place with no licence to treat anyone. It is the latest of the patients rescued in chains stories to shake […]
Two jihadist armies that once shared a common enemy now spend much of their time killing each other. The Al-Qaeda and IS rivalry in the Sahel has become one of the deadliest militant feuds in the world, and the people of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are the ones paying for it. Fresh clashes reported […]
A five-storey residential building has come crashing down in the Egyptian capital, and families are now counting the cost. The Cairo building collapse has killed at least six people, three of them children, according to Africanews and local media reports. It is the kind of Egypt breaking news that stops a busy city in its […]
Another familiar face from the Embaló years has been shown the door in Bissau. The Guinea-Bissau junta, led by General Horta N’tam, has dismissed Lieutenant-General Sadji Fati, a senior officer close to ousted president Umaro Sissoco Embaló, according to a decree seen by AFP on Wednesday. The order took effect immediately. Who Is Sadji Fati? […]
Kenya has spent the past ten days on high alert, and on Wednesday the country’s fears were partly confirmed. The Kenya second Ebola case was announced by the Ministry of Health: a 39-year-old man, a close relative of the first victim, who tested positive while already in quarantine. The ministry says the two cases are […]
Introduction: Renewed Debate Over Political Islam in Europe Debates over political Islam, Islamist movements and European security have gained renewed attention as political leaders across Europe examine the relationship between ideology, public mobilisation and the protection of democratic institutions. The discussion has become particularly contentious in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks […]
A new report is raising alarm about the human cost of Senegal’s tougher laws. The LGBTQ+ crackdown in Senegal is pushing people into hiding and putting public health at risk, according to Human Rights Watch, which published its findings on Monday. The numbers behind the headlines Rights groups estimate that at least 212 people were […]
Markets across Asia took a beating on Tuesday. Asian stocks AI jitters spread quickly as investors questioned how long the artificial intelligence boom can keep powering profits, with a widening Middle East conflict adding to the gloom just before US bank earnings. What happened MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 2.4% to […]
Saudi Arabia’s skies have become a conflict zone. The latest Saudi airport attack hit Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport again on Sunday, a day after a strike there killed more than a dozen people. A week of escalating strikes The assault on the capital’s main airport has built up over days. Earlier this week, Saudi […]
People who had already run from one war found no safety in the next place they stopped. The headline is stark: Sudan paramilitary drone strike kills 41 displaced people in Blue Nile province, close to the Ethiopian border. The rights group Emergency Lawyers, which tracks the war, blamed the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for Friday’s […]
Anyone who has watched a diesel generator roar through a mine’s fuel budget knows what unreliable power costs. According to a Trafigura executive, a new Congo miners power project $1 billion annual savings estimate could soon be within reach for the copper and cobalt belt. The line behind the number On 7 October in Kinshasa, […]
East Africa has long watched the Congo outbreak with one eye on its own borders. The news this week was blunt: Kenya confirms first Ebola death as outbreak spreads beyond the Democratic Republic of Congo. Health Secretary Aden Duale announced on Tuesday that a Kenyan man who had been living in the DRC died in […]
European governments are asking new questions about the Muslim Brotherhood, and most of them have little to do with violence. They concern money, mosques, schools and associations, and whether any of it adds up to political influence. Meanwhile, Florida has opened a separate fight over whether a US state can label an organisation terrorist without […]
Across Sudan, the queue for fuel is turning into a queue for survival. The Sudan fuel shortage October 2026 impact on prices and households is being felt in buses, markets and kitchens, as supply problems at home and abroad squeeze an already struggling population. The shortage stems from global oil disruptions linked to the conflict […]
On September 29, 2026, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state Cabinet approved a new set of terrorism designations covering the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Muslim Brotherhood and Antifa, alongside more than 90 organizations already designated as foreign terrorist organizations by the U.S. government. The action represents Florida’s first implementation of a statutory […]
Sudan’s war is raising concerns about the role of Islamist networks active within and alongside the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). In 2026, the matter gained more international attention after the US declared the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan to be a Foreign Terrorist Organization with its armed wing being the al-Baraa Bin Malik Brigade. This declaration […]
The United States is applying their decision to deny entry to Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan to the United Nations General Assembly to expand its diplomatic row over Sudan’s conflict into a broader test of Washington’s strategy to combat the war in the south. The visa reportedly was tied to a proposed 90-day humanitarian […]
An ongoing conference focusing on the “cost of Islamophobia in Italy” has been receiving political and media attention in Rome due to the organisational links and the involvement of centre-left politicians, along with the connection of part of the Italian Muslim community with the Islamist networks. Scheduled for September 19-20 at the Seraphicum Complex in […]
Sudan’s civil war is getting into an even more dangerous phase, characterized not only by displacement of people, atrocities, and different armed factions but also by accusations of chemical weapons utilization. Accusations against the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), along with increased attention paid to Islamist-linked militias cooperating with the military, raise questions that go far […]
