Africa is the theatre of heightened rivalries between powers, both declining and ascending, for access to natural resources, markets, diplomatic and cultural influence. African countries are themselves actors, individually and collectively, in these recompositions. But do the new alliances contribute to economic diversification and poverty reduction, or do they reproduce extractive logics?
The history of relations between Africa and the world appears to have accelerated at the beginning (…)

Gaza is being wiped off the map, stone by stone. “Words are losing their meaning and can no longer convey what is happening,” one resident writes
A Palestinian girl wounded by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City, yesterday. Every person in Gaza is a survivor of previous wars and has known every kind of fear. Credit: Khames Alrefi / Anadolu/ Reuters
“I sent my family south,” a friend texted to me yesterday morning, “but I stayed in Gaza City to say goodbye to its streets and to mourn it. I'm (…)

The violence and criminalisation targeting Delpedro Marhaen (Director of Lokataru Foundation) alongside other young activists such as Khariq Anhar, Syahdan Hussein, Muzaffar Salim, Figha Lesmana, Saiful Amin and Laras Faizati, as well as dozens of young activists detained today, constitutes terror against Indonesian democracy. Several of them were not only arrested and detained, but experienced torture, abuse, and forced abduction. One victim, a young alumnus from Padjajaran University in (…)