By Anadolu Agency The global arsenal of nuclear weapons available “for use” by the armed forces of the nuclear-armed states increased in 2022 as the fear of a nuclear war also surged, the latest Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor report showed Wednesday. The “fear of nuclear war surged to the highest levels since the Cold War

Somali residents have accused Tower Hamlets Council of racial discrimination and “social cleansing” through the housing waiting list | openDemocracy openDemocracy By Anita Mureithi Dozens of Somali families have accused their east London council of trying to force them out of the community by overlooking their urgent needs for social housing. The residents have accused

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit -Sergei Bobylev/Spuntik/Kremlin Pool/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock The Telegraph By Campbell MacDiarmid Saudi Arabia is joining an anti-Western influence bloc formed by Russia and China, in a sign of Riyadh’s deepening ties with Beijing as the US pivots away from the Middle East. The kingdom’s cabinet approved a plan to join the Shanghai Cooperation

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks after touring the Cape Coast slave castle during her week-long trip to Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia, in Cape Coast, Ghana March 28, 2023. Photographer Francis Kokoroko By Reuters U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a speech to thousands of young Ghanaians on Tuesday in Accra on women’s empowerment,

Credit to Photo/Twitter A strong discussion was caused by the visit of former Ambassador Idd Bedel Mohamed to Israel, where he participated in a conference on cooperation between Israel, the Arabs and Africa. Idd Bedel Mohamed, who once served as Somalia’s ambassador to the UN, participated in a meeting organized by the Jerusalem Center for

Former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou gestures as he arrives at an airport in Shanghai, China March 27, 2023. Ma Ying-jeou’s Office/Handout via Reuters By Reuters People on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are ethnically Chinese and share the same ancestor, former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou said on Tuesday at the start of a historic

By Anadolu Agency Three children and three adults were gunned down in a private Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, law enforcement said Monday as the US grapples with yet another horrific school shooting. The heavily armed female shooter was killed during a shootout with a five-member police team that engaged her on the second

South Africa’s Julius Malema (left) and Kenya’s Raila Odinga. On March 20, 2023 they were at the centre of protests that went on concurrently in their respective countries: Credit to Photo/AFP By The East African Kenya’s Raila Odinga and South Africa’s Julius Malema, born in different backgrounds and at different times, are not political allies,

By Anadolu Agency Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said Saturday he will attend the upcoming Russia-Africa Summit and Economic Forum in St. Petersburg. “I will definitely come to St. Petersburg in July. In this issue, the political will is of crucial importance. It is not an issue of needs, but an issue of ideology. As long

The bell of the Belmont Estate in Grenada, a former 17th-century slave plantation. Photograph: Georg Berg/Alamy The Guardian By Laura Trevelyan In 1833, when Britain finally abolished slavery, my ancestors were absentee owners of more than 1,000 enslaved people on the Caribbean island of Grenada. To the best of my knowledge, the Trevelyans never set