When an organization brands itself as a guardian against war, credibility is its only real currency. Lose that, and "conflict prevention" becomes little more than a performance: dramatic, alarmist, ...

Opinion - In the lexicon of international diplomacy, few phrases are as overused and under-enforced as the "red line". Yet, this week, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty chose to dust off this ...

Israel’s decision to recognise Somaliland as an independent nation has been described as historic by Somaliland’s president, ...

There are a few different problems that arise when you get dehydrated. One is that your blood volume decreases. During ...

President Donald Trump has taken the unusual step of thanking the Iranian government for not following through on executions ...

The president has for months insisted that the US should control Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark.

The State Department is taking the drastic step of suspending visa processing for people from 75 countries. The move, ...

Federal immigration agents are trying to get Minnesota residents to racially profile their neighbors for deportation.

Yemen’s Ansar Allah – commonly known as the Houthis – and Somalia’s two proscribed terrorist organisations, al-Shabaab and Islamic State in Somalia (IS ...

WHEN news surfaced that Tanzania had signed a $1.08 million, two-year contract with a Washington consulting firm led by a former Republican congressman, the reaction followed a script that has become ...

By Benjamin Piper and Nompumelelo Mohohlwane. Africa stands at the edge of a historic demographic shift. By 2050, one in three young people in the world will be African. This represents an ...