Threats of funding cuts has caused a reduction in reproductive and sexual health services
The United States has never been shy to pass judgment on African elections. What does it look like when Africa passes judgment on America’s chaotic vote?
The United States is negotiating with African countries that will see them exchange Palestinian people’s rights for improved economic and trade conditions
COMMENT: My sons, I weep because Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who fought gender discrimination, has died and Donald Trump, under whom hardwon victories have been eroded, wants to be elected president again
Neither side will hesitate for a second to do anything to win
As the coronavirus continues its deadly march, funeral directors in small-town America quietly attend to burying the dead
Mayer’s resignation comes days after TikTok filed a lawsuit challenging a crackdown by the US government over claims the wildly popular social media app can be used to spy on Americans.
China’s foreign ministry pushed back, calling Washington hypocritical for demanding TikTok be sold
Anti-racism and political contagion from Save Darfur to Black Lives Matter
Shop owners and taxi drivers can now refuse entry to people who defy mandatory mask-wearing regulations
Standing out from the herd isn’t always a great idea
In his new book of his time in the Trump White House, former US National Security Adviser John Bolton shares Trump’s very few thoughts on Africa
Responses to terrible inequality, climate change and the Covid-19 economic crisis will decide this
A global police state – the military arm for capital interests – marginalises, controls and subjugates millions of people considered surplus humanity
The US leader’s outrageous rule and overt bigotry roused the white middle class from indifference
In South Africa, police brutality and violence affect black, working- class lives in particular. We must dismantle this systemic oppression
Hyphenated identities: Why can’t I be just ‘South African’; why do I need to be ‘South- African Chinese’?
Imagine the chaos that would have ensued had the rest of the world relied on the United States for leadership as it usually does?
Known as a hub of revolution during the Civil Rights Movement, Atlanta has once again been at the forefront of police brutality protests in the US
The latest spat between Washington and Beijing centers partially on the Civil Aviation Authority of China deciding to determine its limit on foreign airlines based on their activity on March 12.
For a country that is guided by ubuntu, South Africa has a record of embarrassing international blunders
Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis was a textbook example of what not to do, you will have to do it all differently
The state of politics and geopolitics has been exacerbated, rather than stabilised, by the coronavirus crisis
The West’s perceptions of China hold up a mirror to its own preoccupations. More nuanced analysis is much-needed
The coronavirus pandemic has brought the role of universities in nurturing scientific inquiry and evidence-based policy-making to the fore
The author and journalist shares a reading list from her time as The New York Times bureau chief for West Africa
What might Africa look like in the wake of the pandemic? There’s enough change happening to keep both optimists happy and pessimists glum
In a confusing series of announcements, the White House scheduled a press conference with Trump for Monday afternoon. Then scrapped it, and then put it back on
The Western Cape has become the epicentre of the outbreak, and the tardy response of health officials in the Eastern Cape has Minister Zweli Mkhize worried but optimistic
His rhetoric about immigration, the dilution of culture and threats to American’s jobs feeds into Republicans’ fears and he’ll use this in his election campaign
The Ramaphosa Presidency has been praised for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, but the compensating measures that accompany it are inadequate to protect much of the population
Imagine if Zupta the Maniacal Giggler was president. Or Mbeki the Myopic. Beyond imagination would be Donald the Deadly