South Africa

ANC leaders are letting Soviet nostalgia outweigh morality.

What Agnes Sithole’s case shows about South Africa’s progress and peril since apartheid ended.

The country could still achieve genuine racial justice after its moral giants have left the stage—but don’t count on the ANC government to lead the way. 

As civil war spreads, Kenya and the African Union are trying to broker a cease-fire.

The agreement is the most impressive thing to come out of the COP26 climate summit.

Capital punishment was a tool of white supremacy designed to instill terror and cement foreign domination. African governments should abolish it.

BRICS may be a young institution, but it shouldn’t be underestimated.

Young people across the continent have been hit hard by the pandemic, lockdowns, and economic stagnation—but their protests have largely been ignored by elderly elites.

President Cyril Ramaphosa believes the violence is politically motivated, but it looks more like an uprising of the poor and unemployed.

Political chaos is worsening the third wave of the coronavirus.

The Emirati government should extradite the Gupta brothers. Sheltering them risks damaging its diplomatic and financial reputation.

By imprisoning a former president, the country has set an example for constitutional democracies across the world.

A disabled teenager’s killing underscores endemic police brutality.

The French president is seeking to project influence, build new alliances, repair old rifts, and defuse the immigration issue at home.

The ANC descends into infighting again as it tries to suspend top officials facing corruption charges.

South Africa’s former president failed to show up at a corruption inquiry. The country’s Constitutional Court is now deciding whether he should be arrested.

To avoid repeating the pitfalls of the HIV/AIDS crisis, governments and the WTO must make COVID-19 vaccination a public good by temporarily waiving intellectual property rights and compelling emergency production.