The word "weapon" has become so routinely attached to sexual violence in conflict reporting that it risks losing its precision. In Sudan, precision is exactly what is required. What Médecins Sans Frontières documented in its latest report from Darfur is not the incidental brutality of undisciplined fighters. It is a
On the 1st of April, Donald Trump addressed the American nation about a war now in its 33rd day. He said it was nearly over. He said discussions with Iran were ongoing and that the US would hit Iran "extremely hard” over the next two to three weeks. He also
Chinese ambassador to South Africa, Wu Peng, has warned Chinese business owners in South Africa to respect and adhere to the country’s labour laws and regulations. Peng addressed Chinese business owners and other stakeholders during an engagement led by the Department of Employment and Labour (DoL) (https://iol.co.za/capetimes/news/2020-11-12-cape-ngo-denies-allegations-of-falsely-claiming-r4-7m-from-ters-fund/) at the China
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares The Israel-US war on Iran is engulfing the entire Middle East and could escalate to global war. The economic consequences are already severe and could become catastrophic. The Strait of Hormuz carries approximately one-fifth of all oil (https://www.commondreams.org/tag/oil) traded globally, and 30 per cent of the
Global manufacturing is becoming more complex, and leadership decisions are starting to reflect that reality. Ford Motor Company has made a strategic move by appointing a new Executive Director of Global Manufacturing Engineering, a role that sits at the centre of how vehicles are actually built, not just designed. The
To understand why Iran does not behave like a conventional state under military pressure, you have to understand what is animating its power structure at the deepest level. Twelver Shia Muslims, Iran’s majority and the theological foundation of its government, believe that the twelfth divinely ordained Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi, entered
We are four weeks into the Iran war and the economic story getting the least attention is the one with the longest consequences.Somewhere in the noise of missile strikes and shipping reroutes, global fertiliser markets have moved in a way that is going to affect what food costs and who
A movement that found its language March and March’s leader, Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, along with her supporters, made no attempt to temper the rhetoric condemning undocumented foreigners’ access to public services, and this includes healthcare. This is not simply fringe politics. It is reflective of a deliberate and increasingly sophisticated repositioning
A light bulb is not something most people would associate with governance. Yet nearly four decades ago, while working in one of the poorest parts of east China’s Fujian Province as the Party chief of Ningde Prefecture, Xi Jinping (https://iol.co.za/tags/xi-jinping/) told local officials that ensuring access to everyday necessities for
Ashraf Patel African nations are currently facing a new triple blow to their development agenda – one more extractive and exploitative that straddles the entire economic value chain and social life of Africans- from minerals to digital data. Despite the laudable communique of ‘Africa’s G20’ in 2025 on Sustainable AI