South Korea’s president wants to take politics out of prosecutions
THE IMAGERY is funereal. The slogans attached to the sides of the vans outside the Ministry of Justice are framed in black, like…
Could Australia’s government have handled China better?
Nov 26th 2020IT IS THE oldest move in the Communist Party’s playbook: to lock a country in the doghouse when it has offended…
The Ugandan state shoots scores of citizens dead
AMOS SSEGAWA was a 15-year-old schoolboy walking past a shop with his mother. John Kittobe was a retired accountant on a trip…
Donald Trump’s sanctions in the Middle East have had little effect
PERHAPS HE SHOULD have done a bit more shopping on his last trip to New York. Last autumn Gebran Bassil, the head of a Christian…
Public order in Singapore has been shaken by a hand-drawn smiley face
Nov 28th 2020IN MARCH AN activist named Jolovan Wham stood outside a police station, held up a piece of cardboard with a smiley…
Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority has become more politically fractured
HANGING ABOVE the desk of Emmanuel Arnold, the mayor of Jaffna, are images of three Hindu deities, as well as the Buddha, Jesus…
West Africans are dying trying to reach the Canary Islands
IN THE DEAD of night Abdou Aziz Thiaw and Malick Niang, two brothers, recently squeezed into a battered wooden boat in Mbour,…
Nigeria argues over the writing on its banknotes
Nov 28th 2020MALCOLM OMIRHOBO is no stranger to the Federal High Court in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital. A human-rights…
Flare-ups between India and Pakistan in Kashmir are getting fiercer
Artillery is often thundering along the “line of control”Nov 24th 2020THE “LINE OF CONTROL” that wends across the rugged valleys…