Day: March 5, 2026

A meeting with something to prove This particular Council meeting arrives under pressure that is anything but ordinary. South Africa has assumed the SADC Chairship not through the normal rotation of ambition, but through the constitutional ejection of Madagascar after the political instability that rocked Antananarivo after the August 2025

There is a story the West tells about Iran. In this story, Iran is an irrational theocratic state, a sponsor of terror, an obstacle to regional stability, and a government whose people would be free if only the regime could be removed. It is a story built on selective memory,