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The US president’s imagined entitlement to other people’s land is very familiar to Africans. The declaration by United States President Donald Trump that he planned to expel all Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and turn it

Posted 13 hours ago by inuno.ai

When Donald Trump reassumed the presidency of the United States of America in January, eternal New York Times foreign affairs columnist and Orientalist extraordinaire Thomas Friedman took to the pages of the US newspaper of record

Posted 1 days ago by inuno.ai

The exceptional immunity that Israel has enjoyed for decades has placed international law and its institutions at a knife’s edge. Israel has killed UN workers, banned UNRWA, barred UN representatives from entry, and repeatedly insulted the

Posted 1 days ago by inuno.ai

Before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House, United States President Donald Trump said Palestinians have “no alternative” but to leave Gaza. When the two leaders met in the Oval Office, Trump declared

Posted 1 days ago by inuno.ai

The so-called “Netzarim Corridor” has been in the news a lot lately, as its “opening” ushered in the much-awaited return of Palestinians to the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Half a million Palestinians headed back

Posted 2 days ago by inuno.ai

On January 9, Mozambique’s main opposition leader, Venancio Mondlane, made his return home after two months in self-imposed exile. As he emerged at the gates of Maputo International Airport, he knelt on the ground clutching a

Posted 2 days ago by inuno.ai

After much dithering, President Donald Trump’s administration announced the date on which 25 percent tariffs will be imposed on most goods entering the United States from Mexico and Canada. T-Day is set for February 4 when

Posted 3 days ago by inuno.ai

Canada is in a MAGA world of trouble. The nation’s “dearest” and “closest” friend has declared a debilitating trade war by imposing stiff tariffs on most goods being imported into the home of unfettered capitalism –

Posted 4 days ago by inuno.ai

In October, a video from Gaza began to circulate that horrified the world. It showed an injured teenager lying on a hospital gurney with an intravenous drip in his arm. As flames engulf him, he can

Posted 4 days ago by inuno.ai

The recent uproar in the United States over H-1B high-skilled work visas has exposed deep fissures within Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement at the very start of his second term as president. Once celebrated

Posted 5 days ago by inuno.ai

On December 28, 21-year-old journalism student Shatha Al-Sabbagh was assassinated near her home in Jenin. Her family accused snipers from the Palestinian Authority (PA) deployed in the camp of shooting her in the head. Al-Sabbagh had

Posted 5 days ago by inuno.ai

Billionaire Elon Musk dedicated significant personal time and at least $260m to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. That massive investment paid off for Trump, who has now returned to the White House. And it’s paid off for

Posted 6 days ago by inuno.ai

United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order that seeks to repurpose Guantanamo Bay, a US prison in Cuba, into a detention centre for unauthorised immigrants. About 11 million such immigrants live in

Posted January 31, 2025 by inuno.ai

These days there is a sense that Washington, DC, along with most of the Western world, has transported back to the 1930s, when fascism was openly on the march. And the latest executive order from President

Posted January 30, 2025 by inuno.ai

The recent arrest and consequent indictment of prominent Texas imam, Quran teacher, and AlMaghrib Institute instructor Wisam Sharieff on multiple child sexual exploitation charges have ignited a firestorm within the Muslim American community and kick-started an

Posted January 30, 2025 by inuno.ai

Last week, senior Hamas and United States officials expressed to the media their mutual willingness to engage in “a dialogue”. The statements by senior Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzouk and US presidential Middle East envoy Steve

Posted January 29, 2025 by inuno.ai

A ceasefire has finally come. After 15 months of relentless genocidal war, we are finally able to breathe a sigh of relief. Many of us have also been able to return to our homes or what

Posted January 28, 2025 by inuno.ai

It is a humbling sight watching battered Palestinians stream, mostly on foot, into northern Gaza like a long, winding river. The quiet, dignified procession back to the flattened remnants of their homes and uncertain lives is

Posted January 28, 2025 by inuno.ai

A few years ago, when reports came out that The Office star Ellie Kemper was crowned at the Veiled Prophet debutante ball, what critics called a Klan’s ball, I turned over and went back to bed.

Posted January 27, 2025 by inuno.ai

On January 27, 1945, the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, was liberated. An estimated 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945 and 1.1 million of them were murdered. As Europeans

Posted January 27, 2025 by inuno.ai

It’s been a week since a ceasefire was declared in Gaza. For the first time in 15 months, the relentless sound of explosions has been replaced by silence. But this silence is not peace. It is

Posted January 26, 2025 by inuno.ai

Syria today is the most dynamic diplomatic venue in the Middle East because it is the most strategically contested one – as it has been for millennia. The outcome of the competition to control Syrian governance

Posted January 26, 2025 by inuno.ai

Ukraine, a country whose sociocultural evolution reflects a blend of modern and traditional values, has always had a weakness for symbols. We have mastered the art of finding meaning where perhaps there is none, of seeing

Posted January 25, 2025 by inuno.ai

The latest flashpoint in the conservative and far-right war against so-called “woke culture” is diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes. Numerous GOP officials and conservative public figures publicly blamed tragic accidents, such as the Francis Scott

Posted January 23, 2025 by inuno.ai

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