A troubling new United Nations finding has turned attention to a record ransom payment. UN monitors say an estimated $50 million ransom paid to free a hostage kidnapped in Mali in late 2025 has since helped fuel a wider al-Qaeda offensive across West Africa. This story matters for South Africans watching events unfold on the […]
An Annual Religious Celebration Tens of thousands of Muslims gathered at Senegal’s holy city of Touba on Monday, for the annual Grand Magal- a pilgrimage which honours the founder of the Mouride Brotherhood, Senegal’s most influential religious order, and that attracts worshippers both from around the country and abroad. The event raises concerns in light […]
A senior leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, Essam el-Erian has died. El Erian died at a jail sanatorium in Cairo on Thursday after suffering a heart attack. The sixty six 12 months ancient had served as deputy leader of the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, and was swept up in a crackdown on the movement’s […]