By Tisaranee Gunasekara* “This isn’t just about Palestine, it’s about everyone’s right to dissent…” Clare Hinchcliffe (Middle East Eye, 20.3.2025). COLOMBO, Sri Lanka | 26 April 2025 (IDN) — Zoë Rogers is 21, English, a dog-lover. In August 2024, she, together with five others, crashed a modified prison van into Elbit Systems, an Israeli weapons […]
AUKUS and the Strategic Reconfiguration of the South China Sea: The Emerging Role of HMAS Stirling
By Leonam dos Santos Guimarães* RIO DE JANEIRO | 25 April 2025 (IDN) — The establishment of the AUKUS trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States in 2021 constitutes a profound reconfiguration of the strategic landscape in the South China Sea and the broader Indo-Pacific region. Aimed at enhancing Australia’s […]
Close the US Military Bases in Asia
The best strategy for the superpowers is to stay out of each other’s lanes. By Jeffrey D. Sachs* This article was published in Other News and is being republished with the author’s permission. NEW YORK | 22 April 2025 (IDN) — President Donald Trump is again loudly complaining that the US military bases in Asia […]
Africa’s Agenda 2063: A Long-Term Vision with a Long Road Ahead
By Fredrick Nzwili* This opinion article first appeared as a blog for the Bertelmann Stiftung Transformation Index (BTI). NAIROBI, Kenya | 20 April 2025 (IDN) — With Agenda 2063, the recent African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa focused on a plan that outlines the vision of a fully integrated, prosperous, and peaceful Africa. However, cooperation […]
Ending FGM Means Funding Grassroots African Activists
By Nimco Ali OBE and Baroness Helena Kennedy LT KC NAIROBI, Kenya | 17 April 2025 (IDN) — As two women who have spent our lives working for the human rights of women and girls, we are joining forces to highlight the ongoing failure to support grassroots activism to end the devastating practice of female […]
Situation report: Two-year anniversary of Sudan’s war
Situation in Sudan (per 17 April) Situation in South Sudan (per 17 April) Situation in Ethiopia (per 17 April) Regional & International Situation (per 17 April) Refugee and Migration Situation (per 17 April) Links of interest Sudan’s paramilitary forces declare rival government two years after civil war erupts Mass displacement in Darfur as Sudan’s paramilitaries […]
Lesotho Gears Up to Face Highest U.S. Tariff Rate
By Pavan Kulkarni, Peoples Dispatch NEW DELHI | 14 April 2025 (IDN) —Slapped with the highest tariff rate imposed by the Trump administration on countries across the globe on April 2, the small southern African kingdom of Lesotho, with a population of just above 2 million, finds itself in dire straits. Fears abound that the 50% […]
SADC Announces DRC Withdrawal As M23 Captures More Territory
By Africa Defense Forum STUTTGART, Germany | 14 Aprill 2025 (IDN) — The Southern African Development Community (SADC) on March 13 announced the termination and phased withdrawal of its military mission in the embattled eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where M23 rebels have gained ground. The decision was foreshadowed by the late February repatriation […]
Situation Report Horn of Africa: RSF kills hundreds in attacks on IDP camps
Situation in Sudan (per 14 April) The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias attacked the Zamzam and Abu Shouk displacement camps and the city of El Fasher in North Darfur, killing at least over 100 people, including more than 20 children, in a two-day assault between 11 and 12 April. The attacks reportedly continued […]
Africa Is at The Centre Of 21st-Century Challenges
By Vamo Soko and Bintu Zahara Sakor* The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) published this article as Blog. OSLO, Norway | 13 April 2025 (IDN) — Africa is not a homogeneous entity. Unlike the United States or China, it does not have a unified political power capable of defending a common interest. Its cultural, economic, […]