UAE fast-tracks oil pipeline to bypass Strait of Hormuz

As wars disrupt fuel supplies and health systems, more women are being forced to give birth without timely access to skilled care

The United Nations Charter prohibits the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of another state, the only recognised exception being self-defence in response to an armed attack

US President Donald Trump warned members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard to lay down their arms or face ‘certain death’.

The Trump administration slapped South Africa with a 30% import tariff, effective last August

The founder of the Rainbow/PUSH coalition — a US civil rights and social justice organisation — was an outspoken critic of apartheid in South Africa

South Africa’s government said the US actions were a ‘a manifest violation of the Charter of the United Nations, which mandates that all member states refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state”

Speakers described a system in which legal norms are applied selectively, allowing powerful states and their allies to evade accountability

The Y20 summit revealed disparities in youth-driven calls for climate justice, inclusive growth and sovereignty between the Global South and North

Gulf sovereign wealth funds are rapidly expanding in Africa, filling a financing gap left by China’s strategic pullback and reshaping the continent’s development landscape

Francis refused the version of Catholicism that ingratiates itself with the powerful while abandoning the poor

The withdrawal from the World Health Organisation will take one year to come into effect

The majority of poll respondents in South Africa, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and other countries believe China will outpace the US in global influence over the next 20 years