The relationship between South Africa and the West, especially the US, has a complex history. Not least because the US designated those fighting the apartheid regime,...
People fleeing wars in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Yemen have faced racially motivated hostility in Europe, revealing Western double standards.
How do we think and practice a genuinely universal solidarity when some wars and conflicts are met with a searing silence?
Leaders typically spread power among their ‘rival allies’ to keep it and co-opt enough of those elites in exchange for political support.
Ethiopia’s main religions need to take an emotional distance from politics and find a neutral space so they can get moral clarity.
