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Mirroring the past: At times, the actors in Under the Shade of a Tree I Sat and Wept step out of their roles entirely, debating the material they are performing, questioning its meaning or even its validity. It’s here that the play’s meta-theatrical dimension comes into focus. Photo: Thandile Zwebanzi

What does it mean to forgive? A play asks, 30 years after the TRC

Drawing from archives and lived experience, the international production probes the emotional and political complexities of reconciliation in a fractured world

A Ukrainian girl is seeng sleeping in the arms of a UNHCR team member, inside the MoldEXPO, area reconverted in shelter for refugees in Chisinau, Moldova on 2022-03-26
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Three reasons the United Nations cannot intervene in Russia’s war on Ukraine

These are the veto power of the Security Council, major powers ignore the UN and the UN secretary general cannot favour either side in the war

Palestinian and peace activist demonstrators are hosed by a water cannon during a protest against Israel’s controversial barrier near the West Bank village of Bilin. (Reuters/Gil Cohen Magen)

US ‘brokered’ agreements on Israel: Wind of change or toxic blast of extortion?

The United States is negotiating with African countries that will see them exchange Palestinian people’s rights for improved economic and trade conditions

Nato cluster bombs still threaten Serbs

Unexploded cluster bombs threaten thousands of Serbian civilians almost 10 years after they were dropped during Nato’s 1999 air war over Kosovo.

Kosovo state inevitable, says Nobel laureate

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Martti Ahtisaari said on Friday that Serbia would have no option but to accept the new Balkan state.

Kosovan army ‘harvested organs from Serb prisoners’

Carla del Ponte, the former chief prosecutor for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, has unleashed a storm of recrimination with allegations of a trade in human body parts in Kosovo…

Fourteen dead as ethnic violence sweeps Kosovo

The worst ethnic violence in Kosovo since the end of the 1999 conflict erupted in the partitioned town of Kosovska Mitrovica on Wednesday, leaving hundreds wounded and at least…