The UN is no stranger to controversy. In its 70-year history, it has been involved in more than its fair share of scandals across the...

South Africa’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are in a state of crisis. Communications, transport, mail, water, and electricity delivery...

Since the start of 2016, ISIL has fought a sophisticated, multi-front battle for Libyan oil industry infrastructure from its stronghold...

As shoppers in the United States woke up early to score Black Friday deals on the day after Thanksgiving, in Nigeria the terrorist group...

Côte d’Ivoire’s fraught history provides a crucial frame for Ouattara’s rise to power. Under the 33-year rule of President Felix...

On November 21, only a week after terrorist attacks rocked Paris and left 130 dead, heavily armed gunmen streamed into a hotel in Bamako,...

Waves of protests on college campuses across the United States have opened urgent conversations about the presence of racism in higher...

Morocco’s first Ikea was scheduled for a grand opening in Mohammedia, north of Casablanca, on September 29. When the doors of the...

Lalla Essaydi’s photographic art depicting Arab women emerges from a simple yet powerful idea for the image: women, their clothing, their...

For the past few weeks, students at the University of Cape Town have been demonstrating in protest of the Cecil Rhodes statue situated...

When the residents of Juba, the capital of South Sudan, took to the streets at midnight on July 9, 2011 to celebrate the country’s...

For more than 150,000 Sahrawis, this year marks the 40th anniversary of the start of their life as refugees in the Western Sahara. There...

The knife-wielding terrorists that have been appearing in our social media newsfeeds with alarming regularity over the past months do not...

Since its establishment in 2002, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has heard 22 cases and indicted 36 individuals, all of them from...

On December 14, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Fatou Bensouda, announced the shelving of the Sudan case, and...

South African President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation address February 12 was largely overshadowed by the violence that erupted during...

Valentine’s Day was another day of broken hearts, this year in Nigeria. February 14 was scheduled to be the date of the upcoming...

Somalia, a conflict-torn nation on the Horn of Africa, has seen over a decade of terror and destabilization at the hands of various...

On Christmas Day, 2009, the United States almost suffered another 9/11. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian, attempted to...

Tuesday, October 14 marked six months from the date a group of nearly 300 schoolgirls in northeastern Nigeria was kidnapped by the Muslim...