In Abu Dhabi, a space built for coexistence raises difficult questions about religion, power and the violence unfolding across the region

The department of mineral and petroleum resources has encouraged members of the public to continue purchasing fuel as usual and to rely on government communication for accurate and verified information

Russia’s demand for Ukraine to surrender the free parts of Donbas is ‘equivalent to the US having to give up Florida’

South Africans’ history taught us the cost of inhumanity and that it was defeated by resistance, so we must not be indifferent to those building inequality in the world

With respect, your recent statements regarding the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo carry the tone of pre-hostile rhetoric laced with accusatory language, ethnic insinuation and indirect justification of violence

The first two months of the Israel-Gaza war exceeded the individual annual carbon footprints of more than 20 of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations.

The Ukrainian president cut short a trip to South Africa after Russian drone and missile strikes which killed at least eight people and injured about 80

The economic consequences of Sudan’s diplomatic isolation restricts access to aid which, combined with war, are dire – worsened by social fractures that fuel military instability

Israel is using water as a weapon of war in Gaza

The country should be aware of its limitations and rather address its problems at home

The 11th binational commission also saw a call for South Africa to shore up peace efforts on Sudan

A child-rights-based approach to education in disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration programmes gives children the tools for healing, belonging and participation in peacebuilding

Media groups urge action to protect those risking their lives to document the crisis in Gaza

With nearly 2 500 people killed in recent Israeli strikes on Lebanon, nobody in the country is safe, and the only help for Africans is from other migrant workers

The attack claimed more than 1 200 lives, while more than 41 000 people, the majority civilians, have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza

While Israel enjoys the backing of the US and impunity for its crimes, the risk of a wider conflagration in the Middle East is high

The DRC is rich in the minerals needed for renewable energy technologies, central to reducing our carbon footprint, but they come at great environmental and human cost

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Israel and its Western allies – including the media – have lied or spread the lies about the occupier’s intentions and its actions against Palestinians

Photographer Ala Kheir was using his camera to document the scars of Sudan’s old wars. Then came the new war.