Category: News
‘Family affair’: Gabon opposition lambasts coup, claims election victory
Ossa said the military takeover was 'a palace revolution, not a coup' staged to keep the Bongo family in power in Gabon.
Q&A: Why US advocates want more power to probe Indigenous boarding schools
Ben Barnes, chief of the Shawnee Tribe, tells Al Jazeera that advocates do not want the truth 'sifted through a sieve'.
Season of putsch: Why have coups become popular in Africa?
Military leaders are exploiting disenchantment with democratic leadership amid deteriorating economic conditions.
War in Ukraine sees Ireland reckon with its policy of neutrality
Ireland is trying to balance its policy of military neutrality with a desire to support Ukraine on a political level.
Tourists from Morocco shot dead after straying into Algerian waters
Two men reportedly killed after straying past Morocco’s maritime border into Algeria on jet skis.
Has Gabon’s ‘all-powerful’ Bongo dynasty really lost its 55-year grip?
The coup may have ended the reign of Ali Bongo's immediate family, but it's still about the elite preserving itself.
Two Armenian soldiers killed after shelling by Azerbaijan: Yerevan
Azerbaijan says it shelled Sotk in retaliation of Armenia's attack on Kalbajar region wounded two of its soldiers.
Palestinian killed in crossfire after Israeli raid on West Bank town
Israeli forces stormed Aqaba and destroyed a building after besieging it but failed to arrest a wanted Palestinian.
No place at the table. Indian women, food, and eating
Food, the universal code for comfort, can bring anxiety and a sense of displacement to many women in India.
Thai king commutes former PM Thaksin’s prison term to one year
Thaksin returned last week in a dramatic homecoming after spending 15 years abroad in self-exile to avoid prison.