Former Chadian president Hissène Habré’s fate will be sealed by the appeals judgment in a part domestic and international trial bringing closure to victims and human rights champions after a 20 years.
Kosovo fans cheer as their team takes on Finland at a September 2016 football match.
Jussi Nukari/Lehtikuva/Reuters
When leaders of weak democracies use social media to connect with their constituents, people feel heard. But Twitter responses won’t give citizens what they need.
Chinese President Xi Jinping at the recent Asian-African Conference in Jakarta.
Reuters/Darren Whiteside
If US President Donald Trump is the consummate dealmaker he purports to be, he should find the low risk, high returns of greater US-China-Africa cooperation irresistible.
Suspected Somali pirates captured by the Dutch navy working under NATO command.
Reuters/Joseph Okanga
The tanker hijacking off the Somali coast will not be an isolated incident unless the international community remains engaged to root out piracy.
President Nursultan Nazarbayev (here in 2012) used to his best interest technology in an attempt to shut down any political uprising.
Shamil Zhumatov /Reuters
The integration of Turkey into the European Union could have embodied a counter-discourse to the so-called ‘Clash of Civilisations’. Perhaps it is not too late.
Protesters post a hashtag to social media together to make it trend as they denounce policies of President Donald Trump at the Not My President’s Day Rally in Los Angeles, California February 20, 2017.
David McNew/Reuters
Myanmar’s Rohingya issue has become a full-blown humanitarian crisis that affects all of southeast Asia. ASEAN nations would do well do move beyond their non-interference policy and help.
Residents look on as a police investigator inspects the body of a suspected drug pusher, along an alley in Quezon city.
Romeo Ranoco/Reuters
A recent spat between Turkey and the Netherlands reveals how Dutch-Turks are badly served by politics.
The wife of a jailed opposition leader, during a rally to mark the third anniversary of his arrest in Caracas, Venezuela.
Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters
Venezuelans, fleeing hunger and repression at home, have surpassed Central Americans as the top US asylum-seekers.
Dar Digest (story ‘Muhafiz’), February 2015. Free from the fetters of common natural laws, horror stories represent a society’s fears and prejudices.
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Delays in setting up disarmament camps for former guerillas have cast doubt on the Colombian government’s commitment to peace. But the real problem is its national history.
The Syrian Democratic Forces were excluded from the latest round of peace talks.
Rodi Said/Reuters
Although the uprising in Syria will mark its sixth anniversary this month, the Syrian war has far from run its course.
‘Neither criminals nor illegals’: activists painted the U.S.-Mexico border in protest against US President Donald Trump’s new immigration reform.
Jose Luis Gonzales/Reuters