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In recent months, the small East African coastal region of Somaliland has been making international headlines after several high-profile Republicans in the United States endorsed a bill to recognise it as an independent state. The question of Somaliland’s independence from Somalia has long divided the region. While the territory declared its sovereignty in the 1990s, it…
By Louis Jacobson | Politifact Published On 6 Sep 20256 Sep 2025 President Donald Trump said US workers are already benefitting from his economic policies. “The average American worker has already seen a $500 wage increase this year,” Trump said during an August 26 Cabinet meeting. Trump’s White House cherry-picked data that favours a higher earnings gain….
Melbourne, Australia – A far-right “anti-immigration” march escalated into a violent attack on a sacred Indigenous site in Melbourne last weekend, raising serious questions about police conduct and institutional responses to neo-Nazi groups in Australia. The march on Sunday, which saw members of the self-described neo-Nazi National Socialist Network (NSN) lead chants of “Australia for…
As a young man, Seth Ferranti ran a drug-dealing operation distributing vast volumes of cannabis and LSD across college campuses in the United States. It was the 1980s and US President Ronald Reagan had proclaimed that “marijuana – pot, grass, whatever you want to call it – is probably the most dangerous drug in the…
In January 2024, Ahmed Abubakr Imam picked up a rifle to defend his community. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) had just captured four of the five provinces in Sudan’s sprawling western region of Darfur – South, East, Central and West – in a lightning attack as it advanced in its war against the Sudanese…
Roua*, 18, misses her home in el-Geneina, where luscious mangoes grew in her small garden. The RSF burned down her home in June 2023. “They burned our whole village,” she says. Two of her brothers, an uncle and three neighbours were killed in the attack. Roua tried to escape on foot, but she and eight…
The United States has floated a proposal for an economic zone in southern Lebanon in what analysts tell Al Jazeera is a far-fetched and poorly thought-out plan to incentivise the Lebanese government to push on with disarming Hezbollah. The US envoy to the Middle East, Thomas Barrack, floated the economic zone during a visit to…
The United Nations Security Council voted on Thursday to extend the UN peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, until the end of 2026 and then to begin an “orderly and safe drawdown and withdrawal” over the course of 2027. The winding down of UNIFIL has been pushed heavily by Israel and the United…
West Sonatala, Bangladesh – An ordinary day for Andharmanik, a small community newspaper, begins in a crowded fish market. Walking down the steps from the road to the fish landing point in Mohipur, a town in the district of Patuakhali bordering the Bay of Bengal, the smell of salt and fish hangs heavy in the…
India’s Supreme Court in early August issued a dramatic order calling for the removal of all stray dogs from the streets of the national capital, prompting outrage from animal rights activists. Days later, the country’s top court amended that order after a larger bench of judges looked at the case, effectively allowing municipal authorities to…
