By Sharif Abdel Kouddous The writer is an independent journalist based in New York and Cairo. @sharifabdelkouddous. NEW YORK | CAIRO | 30 September 2024 (IDN) — “I don’t know how my spirit will accept that we are entering a new form of illegal incarceration,” the imprisoned activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah wrote in a letter […]
Sudan Conflict Triggers Humanitarian Crisis
By J Nastranis NEW YORK | GENEVA | NAIROBI | 28 September 2024 (IDN) — The Sudan conflict has generated the largest internal displacement crisis in the world since the Syrian civil war in 2011. It has also had catastrophic impacts on women and girls. “Women and girls in Sudan are facing unimaginable challenges, yet […]
African Leaders Demand Equitable Representation on UN Security Council
By Vibhu Mishra* NEW YORK | 27 September 2024 (IDN | UN News) — The call for a more inclusive and representative Security Council resonated loud and clear at the UN General Assembly on 26 September, as African leaders demanded global powers address the longstanding inequity in the Council’s composition. They articulated a compelling case, […]
Realities That Neither Israel nor The Palestinians Can Wish Away
Dr Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 27 September 2024 (IDN) — In last week’s article entitled “The Four Psychological Dimensions Behind Hamas’ Attack and Israel’s Retaliation,” I explored how the historical, religious, ideological, and humanitarian dimensions have impacted the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which culminated with the most violent conflagration since Israel’s creation in 1948. During this […]
Liquid Assets-Africa: Unlocking Water Potential for Growth
By Busani Bafana NAIROBI | 23 September 2024 (IDN) — Africa stands on the edge of a severe water crisis, threatening its ability to meet critical Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a new report reveals. Despite the continent’s vast water resources, poor management, overexploitation, and the escalating effects of climate change are fueling widespread water insecurity. […]
South Asian Workers in Europe Face Harrowing Working Conditions
By Aju John* BERLIN | 22 September 2024 (IDN) — On 19 June of this year, an agricultural labourer from India named Satnam Singh lost his life on a melon farm in Latina, Italy. He had been crushed by a machine that severed one of his arms and fractured his legs — horrific injuries, but, […]
The Four Psychological Dimensions Behind Hamas’ Attack and Israel’s Retaliation
By Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 20 September 2024 (IDN) — Hamas’ attack and Israel’s retaliatory war are the dire by-products of decades-long psychological impediments—historical, ideological, religious, and humanitarian—that have hindered any progress toward a solution while making the conflict ever more intractable Hamas’s savage October 7 attack on Israel and the latter’s massive retaliatory […]
Can the World Save Palestine from US-Israeli Genocide?
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies* NEW YORK | 17 September 2024 (IDN) — On September 18, the UN General Assembly is scheduled to debate and vote on a resolution calling on Israel to end “its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” within six months. Given that the General Assembly, unlike the […]
The Five Front Escalation in West Asia
Israeli Settler Colonialism and Expansionism Threaten an All-Out War By Anuradha Chenoy* This article was published in Economic&Political Weekly (Vol. 59, Issue No. 37, 14 Sep. 2024 2024) and is being republished with the author‘s permission. NEW DELHI | 14 September 2024 (IDN) — There is a fault line under Israel that promises to crack […]
Chinese Financing for African Renewables Rebounds After Two-Year Lull
By Anika Patel* BEIJING | 13 September 2024 (IDN) — New data reveals a rebound in Chinese financing of renewable energy projects in Africa in 2023, following a lull over the past few years. Climate cooperation between China and Africa was a key focus of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), which concluded on 6 […]