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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni

As African migration to Europe spikes, Tunisia takes center stage in Italy’s foreign policy agenda

By DEBBIE MOHNBLATT/THE MEDIA LINE

Lise Grande, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq at the time, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Erbil, Iraq October 13, 2016.

Former UN official Lise Grande to take role of Special Envoy for Middle East Humanitarian Issues

By HANNAH SARISOHN

THE WRITER spends time with some Rwandan friends at the ‘Kwita Izina’ ceremony in September 2022. Rwanda’s recovery illustrated the nation’s remarkable transformation through unity and a profound connection to nature, the writer says.

30 years since Rwanda’s genocide, and reflections on October 7's atrocities

A MAN buys vegetables from a local vendor during the month of Ramadan in Omdurman, Sudan. Nearly 20 million people, almost one out of every two Sudanese, are facing acute food insecurity in a country that used to be a major food producer, the writers note.

The man-made disaster in Sudan must be stopped

By JOSEP BORRELL , JANEZ LENARCIC

Slightly larger brains than modern humans, and stronger, but extinct. An illustration of the Neanderthal man.

Where did Homo sapiens go after leaving Africa? New study has an answer

By REUTERS

A boy holds a sign to protest against, what a teacher, local councilor and parents said, the kidnapping of hundreds school pupils by gunmen after the Friday prayer in Kaduna, Nigeria March 8, 2024.

Nearly 300 Nigerian students released after abduction in Kaduna

By REUTERS

Nigerien security forces prepare to disperse pro-junta demonstrators gathered outside the French embassy, in Niamey, the capital city of Niger July 30, 2023.

Islamic State claims responsibility for attack on Niger army that killed dozens

By REUTERS

Al Shabaab display their weapons on the outskirts of Mogadishu, December 8, 2008.

Al Shabaab launches deadly attack on military base in Somalia

By REUTERS

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi meets with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the Ittihadiya presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, March 17, 2024, in this handout picture courtesy of the Egyptian Presidency

EU and Egypt forge $8.1 billion deal to tackle migration and boost partnership

By DEBBIE MOHNBLATT/THE MEDIA LINE

South Africa chief rabbi Warren Goldstein.

S. Africa is diplomatic Iran proxy, Africa faces Hamas-like jihad - top rabbi

By MICHAEL STARR

Eswatini ambassador with President Isaac Herzog. March 13, 2024.

Five new ambassadors welcomed by Herzog, three from Africa affirm solidarity with Israel

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

Members of the Ethiopian National Defense Force are seen during a pro-government rally to denounce what the organisers say is the TPLF and the Western countries' interference in internal affairs of the country, at Meskel Square in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 7, 2021.

Residents say Ethiopian soldiers kill more than 50 civilians in Amhara town

By REUTERS

A Congolese girl covers her head as she in Rhoe camp for the internally displaced people (IDPs) in Djugu's territory, Ituri's province, north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo April 19, 2023.

Islamist rebels kill at least nine in eastern Congo attacks

By REUTERS

TURKEY’S PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi shake hands following a news conference in Ankara last week. It is not clear if Iran’s enablers Qatar and Turkey or its allies Russia and China actually call the shots in Tehran or have any influence, says the writer.

Is an attack on Iran the solution?

By Vas Shenoy

Sudanese refugees collect water from a borehole at the Gorom Refugee camp hosting Sudanese refugees who fled recent fighting, near Juba, in South Sudan January 26, 2024.

Fifty-two killed in fighting in disputed region straddling Sudan and South Sudan

By REUTERS

A Sudanese family who fled the conflict in Murnei in Sudan's Darfur region, sit beside their belongings while waiting to be registered by UNHCR upon crossing the border between Sudan and Chad in Adre, Chad, July 26, 2023.

Ethnic killings in one Sudan city left up to 15,000 dead - UN report

By REUTERS

Salvador Antonio Valdes Mesa, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CPC) and vice-president of the Council of State of Cuba, and his party attend a meeting during a visit, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KC

War in Gaza 'one of the cruelest genocidal acts' ever, claims Cuba's VP

By REUTERS

A Sudanese woman, who fled the conflict in Geneina in Sudan's Darfur region, is reunited with the rest of the family after she was relocated from makeshift shelters to a refugee camp in Ourang on the outskirts of Adre, Chad, July 25, 2023.

Murders, rapes, hangings rampant in war-torn Sudan

By HUDHAIFA EBRAHIM/THE MEDIA LINE