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Public spending cuts across six African countries have resulted in the incomes of health and education workers falling by up to 50 percent in five years, leaving them struggling to make ends meet, according to international NGO ActionAid.

The Human Cost of Public Sector Cuts in Africa report published on Tuesday found that 97 percent of the healthcare workers it surveyed in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi and Nigeria could not cover their basic needs like food and rent with their…

Across Africa, debates about cultural preservation and traditional values are increasingly being influenced by forces that promote conservative social agendas rooted in colonial and missionary legacies. These movements, often backed by generous Western funding, seek to impose rigid, exclusionary values that contradict the continent’s diverse and historically dynamic cultures.

A recent example of this dynamic played out last week in Nairobi, where the second Pan-African Conference…

By Jeremy Salt

The responsibility also lies, perhaps even more so, with Arab and Muslim governments refusing to intervene to save their fellow Arabs and Muslims, with the heroic exception of Yemen.

While Israel was deliberately starving children and slaughtering 100 Palestinians or more every day at one end of the Middle East, Arab rulers and their American guests…

Political analyst Omar Baddar says Israel’s decision to allow limited food aid into Gaza–through a new US-backed foundation– should not to be celebrated. There’s been a total blockade on Gaza since March 2. The US and Israel say a new organisation is needed to ensure aid does not reach Hamas.

Negotiations between Washington and Tehran looking shaky as Iran resists US negotiator Witkoff’s ‘red line’.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has derided demands from the United States that it halt nuclear enrichment as negotiations between the two countries hang in the balance.

“Saying things like ‘We will not allow Iran to enrich uranium’ is nonsense. No one [in Iran] is waiting for others’ permission,” said Khamenei in a speech reported by the country’s…