Pavan Kulkarni
Sudan’s paramilitary attacks largest IDP camps amid world’s biggest displacement crisis, killing over 100

Burning down hundreds makeshift shelters used by the IDPs, Sudan’s paramilitary also torched the famine-struck camp’s central market and its community kitchen, burning the women inside alive, before attacking the last of the camp’s medical posts and killing all its staff.

With 67% of the population considered “poor”, Lesotho gears up to face highest US tariff rate

The highest tariff of 50% imposed on one of the smallest and poorest sub-Saharan African countries, essentially penalizes the inability of its workers producing American brands to afford them.

Why is South Sudan on the brink of civil war again?

The world’s youngest republic, and one of its poorest, is on the brink of returning to a civil war as its unelected state leaders prepare for another armed showdown.

“Llevaré mi ‘persona non grata’ como una insignia de dignidad”, dijo el embajador sudafricano expulsado por los EEUU

“Debemos negociar con EEUU porque nuestra economía y nuestro pueblo lo necesitan. Pero nunca debemos negociar nuestra soberanía, no podría ser que nos dicen que China y Cuba no pueden ser nuestros amigos”, declaró el veterano diplomático Ebrahim Rasool al regresar a Sudáfrica.

Hundreds killed in the “deadliest single bombing” of the war in Sudan

The airstrike on one of the last major markets left with stocks in the North Darfur will likely accelerate the famine spreading in the state since last August.

“I will wear my persona non grata as a badge of dignity”, said South African ambassador expelled by the US

“We must enter into trade negotiations with the USA because our economy and our people need them. But we must never trade our sovereignty, lest we be told that China and Cuba cannot be our friends,” said veteran diplomat Ebrahim Rasool on his return to South Africa.

Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger withdraw from International Organization of La Francophonie

Ostensibly meant to foster greater cooperation between Francophone countries, the three countries allege that the OIF has become “a remote-controlled political instrument” operated from Paris to suit its “geopolitical considerations”.

What’s behind Hichilema’s constitutional reforms in Zambia?

Opposition parties allege that under the cover of constitutional reforms, President Hakainde Hichilema is manipulating the 2026 electoral race to secure victory despite his declining popularity.

Tens of thousands of workers in Karnataka mobilize in historic five-day protest against anti-labor policies

Mobilized from the cross-section of Karnataka’s working class, over 30,000 took part in the demonstration from March 3 to 7, raising 37 demands including a living minimum wage and a wealth tax on the richest 1%.

“We are not corporate slaves”: Indian tech workers fight for dignity

Asserting that “A Healthy Work-Life Balance is Every Employee’s Right,” almost 700 tech workers protested in India’s IT hub Bangalore on March 9, demanding the enforcement of labor laws, regulation of work hours, and codification of “Right to Disconnect”.

“El neocolonialismo francés es la principal causa de nuestro subdesarrollo”, reitera activista beninés tras su liberación de prisión

Arrestados después de una manifestación que exigía la expulsión de las tropas francesas, activistas benineses reiteran su compromiso de luchar contra el neocolonialismo francés tras su liberación.

RSF shelling kills dozens in famine-stricken Abu Shouk Camp amid siege of North Darfur

Attacks on the camp of nearly half a million IDPs are escalating as they await “their inevitable fate, which is a slow death,” suffering from “severe hunger and lack of medicines”.