By Jeffrey D. Sachs* This article was published in Other News and is being republished with the author’s permission. NEW YORK | 13 April 2025 (IDN) — Writing in his cell as political prisoner in fascist Italy after World War I, the philosopher Antonio Gramsci famously declared: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that […]
Urgent Need for South Africa to Improve Access to Justice for Rape Survivors
By Jean-Paul Murunga and Sylvia Obaga* NAIROBI Kenya | 12 April 2025 (IDN) — Nationwide outrage and public protests have erupted in South Africa after a mother began speaking out about the rape of her 7-year-old daughter, Cwecwe*. Frustration and anger over a lack of progress in the police investigation six months after initially reporting […]
Trump Is Ushering in a National Disaster
Dr Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 11 April 2025 (IDN) — Trump’s shortsightedness and ruthlessness have damaged the US at home, and abroad more than all his predecessors combined. The Republican Party has lost its moral compass and its spine, and it will pay dearly for empowering Trump, who brought America to the precipice of […]
South-South Cooperation Advances at 2nd UN Tourism Africa and Americas Summit
By Reinhard Jacobsen BRUSSELS | 10 April 2025 (IDN) — The two-day Second UN Tourism Africa & The Americas Summit, which concluded on 10 April in Livingstone, Zambia, has outlined concrete plans for achieving shared goals, focused on innovation, Technical Cooperation, enhanced connectivity, tourism investments and tourist confidence through security. According to UN Tourism, both […]
Situation Report Horn of Africa: Machar replaced as SPLM-IO leader
Situation in South Sudan (per 10 April) Senior members of the main opposition party in South Sudan Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO) have appointed Stephen Par Kuol as the interim party leader, temporarily replacing Riek Machar, who remains under house arrest. Several top SPLM-IO officials strongly disagreed with the replacement. South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir […]
Situation Report Horn of Africa: Videos show executions of people in Khartoum
Situation in Sudan (per 7 April) Videos have emerged showing the execution of people in Khartoum, Sudan, by people in uniform and civilian clothing. Emergency Lawyers warns that Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) is executing civilians that are suspected of having supported the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The situation in El Fasher, North Darfur, is catastrophic, […]
Russia’s Expanding Geopolitical Influence in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger
By Kester Kenn Klomegah MOSCOW | 4 April 2025 (IDN) — Growing impatience over the fragile security situation in the Sahel region and collective anxiety to uplift and strengthen their Confederation of Sahel States (AES), three Foreign Ministers of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger embarked on a trip to Moscow. Meetings held on 3 April […]
When Are You Going to Get a Proper Job?
By Azu Ishiekwene* ABUJA, Nigeria | 4 April 2025 (IDN) — He didn’t say when his father asked him, but I wonder what the old man must think in his grave. Jonathan Power is now 83 and arguably one of Europe’s most widely published columnists. He was a young freelance journalist when his father asked […]
The Impact of Afrikaner Identity and Apartheid Ideology
By Jan Servaes BRUSSELS | 3 April 2025 (IDN) — Although the names of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, or other (South African) ‘tech billionaires’ are not mentioned anywhere in Eric Louw’s “Afrikaner Identity: From Anticolonial Struggle Through Hegemonic Nationalism to Disempowered Minority,” this book offers an excellent introduction to understanding the ideology and some of […]
Situation report: AU mediators arrive in Juba; Hemedti threatens to invade Sudan’s northern states; Armed men kill 20 individuals in Oromia
Situation in South Sudan (per 3 April) Situation in Sudan (per 3 April) Situation in Ethiopia (per 3 April) Regional & International Situation (per 3 April) Refugee and Migration Situation (per 3 April) Links of interest African Union mediators arrive in South Sudan to salvage peace deal Statement by UNDP Administrator on the situation in […]