Instead of luxury condos, Gaza faces a resumption of war
For nearly a month both Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement that controls Gaza, have largely honoured the cea...
A leader of Congo’s rebels vows to fight on
Corneille nangaa sits in an armchair in a five-star-hotel in Goma, the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo a...
Why Islamists in the Arab world speak the language of free markets
A POLITICIAN promised to open his poor country for foreign investment and wean it off aid, while Tony Blair nodded sagely. St...
Donald Trump’s eye-popping plan to make Gaza American
GAZANS HAVE lived through 15 months of war between Hamas and Israel. They have been repeatedly displaced. Tens of thousands h...
Binyamin Netanyahu is about to discover if Donald Trump is friend or foe
WHEN DONALD TRUMP visited Israel during his first term as president in 2017, the Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu sa...
Netanyahu is about to discover if Trump is friend or foe
WHEN DONALD TRUMP visited Israel during his first term as president in 2017, the Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu sa...
Syria’s new president, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, gives his first interview
In his first interview since assuming the Syrian presidency on January 29th, Ahmed al-Sharaa sat down with The Economist and ...
Warlord, jihadi or nation-builder?
In his first interview since assuming the Syrian presidency on January 29th, Ahmed al-Sharaa sat down with The Economist and ...
Syria’s new president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, gives his first interview
In his first interview since assuming the Syrian presidency on January 29th, Ahmed al-Sharaa sat down with The Economist and ...
France’s bitter retreat from west Africa
For nearly a decade the French embassy in Bamako, the capital of Mali, was the political nerve centre of a counter-terrorism ...