The UN’s refugee agency for Palestinians is running out of cash
YOU may think that after a dozen years of blockade by Israel, three devastating wars and the rule of a harsh Islamist government,…
Iran’s troubles are mounting at home and abroad
IT IS clear whom President Donald Trump blames for the Middle East’s problems. Iran’s “corrupt dictatorship”, he told…
Zimbabwe’s elections turn violent
SO MUCH for a fresh start. The elections in Zimbabwe on July 30th were meant to usher in a new era for a country ruined by nearly…
An amazing upset in elections in the Maldives
THE last time Abdulla Yameen looked on the verge of losing power, in February, he declared a state of emergency, dismissed the…
Imran Khan’s unsportsmanlike win in Pakistan
SOME 22 years after Imran Khan founded Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to break open the country’s corrupt dynastic politics,…
Victims of forced sterilisation in Japan fight for compensation
print-edition icon Print edition | Asia Sep 27th 2018 | TOKYO WHEN Junko Iizuka was 16, she was taken on a jaunt to the countryside….
Australia’s states offer to make treaties with aboriginals
PATRICK DODSON was there on the day, 30 years ago, that prime minister Bob Hawke promised aboriginals a treaty that would at last…
There are no quick fixes for South Africa’s economy
print-edition icon Print edition | Middle East and Africa Sep 27th 2018 | JOHANNESBURG IF EMIGRATION is a barometer of confidence…
Zimbabwe’s opposition is gaining ground ahead of upcoming elections
AS NELSON CHAMISA takes the stage in Karoi, a town in the north of Zimbabwe, he grasps a microphone with one hand and waves with…