Ahmed al-Sharaa declares himself president of Syria
On January 29th cafés across Damascus were packed. Syrians, both recently returned exiles from Europe and Turkey and those wh...
The fall of Goma heralds more bloodshed in eastern Congo
“There are no more places for the dead,” says Marie Kavira-Nvungi, a nurse at a hospital in Goma, the largest city in the eas...
Hamas talks a big game but is in chaos
EVEN before the fighting stopped, Hamas was keen to show it had survived. Uniformed militants emerged from hiding hours after...
Iran’s alarming nuclear dash will soon test Donald Trump
“It would really be nice if that could be worked out without having to go that further step,” declared Donald Trump on Januar...
Syria’s new rulers say they are keen to integrate foreign fighters
The mandi chicken, a Yemeni dish, in the Emad Eddin restaurant in Idlib is a favourite among Uyghur jihadists. On a recent af...
Rwanda’s reckless plan to redraw the map of Africa
THE RESIDENTS of Goma are no strangers to war. The largest city in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has lon...
Government by social media in Somalia
Thirty years ago, making a phone call from Somalia meant crossing the border into better-connected Kenya or Ethiopia. Yet by ...
Three big lawsuits against Meta in Kenya may have global implications
As soon as the posts appeared on Facebook, Abrham Mearag feared they would be a “death sentence” for his father. A civil war ...
Trump should try to end, not manage, the Middle East’s oldest conflicts
IT IS becoming an odd tradition: America’s secretaries of state use their final days to catalogue their failings in the Middl...
How Turkey plans to expand its influence in the new Syria
ASAAD AL-SHAIBANI’s professors were puzzled when the postgraduate student, a Syrian refugee, told them in November that he wo...