Sudanese Foreign Minister Omar Gamar Eddine Ismail confirmed that "the new conditions for returning to the Renaissance Dam negotiations to conduct meaningful talks on the issue were presented to...
Egypt and Sudan participated in a ministerial meeting yesterday sponsored by the African Union (AU) and focused on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) negotiations. The government in Addis...
Israel barred foreign nationals from the UK, Denmark and South Africa after a new "fast spreading" strain of COVID-19 was discovered, i24 News reported. The UK's Chief Medical Adviser...
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Article
December 4, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Noam Chomsky is right when he says that, in the US, sports creates the necessary "fantasy world" required to shield people from understanding, organizing, and attempting to "influence the...
African diplomats yesterday called out the UN for its inaction on Palestine and its failure to end Israel's more than half-century occupation. According to the Afro-Palestine Newswire Service, South Africa's...
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Article
November 30, 2020 |
Bruno Beaklini Rarely in the history of mankind does something positive come out of the nerve centre of financial capital and speculative parasites. The BRICS idea may be a rare exception...
An article about a South African man who claimed to have walked from Cape Town to Jerusalem has been taken down by MEMO after it was revealed that he...
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Article
November 23, 2020 |
Iqbal Jassat When I applauded Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan for his firm stance against "normalisation" with Israel earlier this month, a friend posed an interesting query. Is it true, he...
Algerian elected as vice president of the international union of geological sciences (IUGS) for 2020-2024. Professor Hassina Mouri, a South African national who is of Algerian origin, was voted...
US President Donald Trump yesterday vowed that any attack by Iran would be met with a response "1,000 times greater in magnitude" amid reports that the Islamic Republic was plotting...
Authorities in South Africa were unaware that Iran was plotting to assassinate US Ambassador to the country, Lana Marks. According to Bloomberg, a spokesman for the South African Foreign Ministry...
Iran yesterday dismissed claims it is planning to assassinate the US Ambassador to South Africa, Lana Marks, in retaliation for America's assassination of its General Qassem Soleimani, news agencies reported....
The Iranian government is weighing a plot to assassinate the US ambassador to South Africa, a report said yesterday. Authorities have been aware of a general threat against Ambassador...
A South African court ruled on Tuesday that a Kuwaiti firm could ship thousands of sheep to the Middle East, dealing a blow to animal welfare activists seeking to...

Interviews
August 17, 2020 |
Anjuman Rahman Action, rather than words, is desperately being called for by Palestine Action's Stewart Walker*. It is time to seek other means by which to convey to the UK, Israel...
Scores of people demonstrated outside the Israeli Embassy in South Africa today in condemnation of the UAE's peace agreement with the occupation state and calling for the release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Nawajaa
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Article
August 14, 2020 |
Suraya Dadoo Jerusalema – a South African gospel song with an infectious beat and a catchy dance – has captured the imagination of the world. The song by South African musician...
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Tuesday hailed the mini Africa summit held to discuss the Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD). In a tweet, the official wrote: "I Fruitful...
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Article
Attempts by Israel's advocates to portray my grandfather as a liberal pacifist is a distortion of his legacy
Egypt discussed with South Africa on Friday the necessity of reaching a comprehensive legal agreement between all concerned parties regarding the rules for filling and operating the Ethiopian Renaissance...
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Article
June 27, 2020 |
Iqbal Jassat South Africa's Chief Justice has come under intense fire for publically expressing his love for Israel. Mogeong Mogeong made his pro-Israel comments on an online platform hosted by the...
Israel will become an apartheid state if it moves ahead with the planned annexation of the West Bank, warned Benjamin Pogrund, an ally of Nelson Mandela, who for decades had...
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Article
May 20, 2020 |
Mohammad Ayesh Failed policies pursued by certain Arab countries to face the spread of the coronavirus pandemic may lead to much bigger losses than those expected if the virus spreads. So...
A group of Western mercenaries linked with companies based in the United Arab Emirates has been revealed to have been briefly deployed to Libya to fight alongside the rival...

Article
May 1, 2020 |
Nasim Ahmed Tributes have poured in from across the world for Denis Goldberg, the veteran South African anti-apartheid campaigner who died on Wednesday aged 87. Goldberg was a close ally of...

Article
April 21, 2020 |
Iqbal Jassat A brutal legacy of Apartheid South Africa's notorious assault on human rights was the violent enforcement of detention without trial. Scores of people targeted as opponents of white minority...
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Article
April 9, 2020 |
Suraya Dadoo On 10-11 March several hundred guests gathered at the Divine Restoration Ministries on the outskirts of Bloemfontein, the capital of the Free State province in South Africa, to attend...
The United States on Wednesday named seven companies that it has blacklisted for trade-in Iranian petrochemicals, three based in mainland China, three in Hong Kong and one in South...

Article
If any country which claims to be a democracy, its potential prime minister declares that the votes of a significant minority are not part of the democratic 'equation', they...
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February 24, 2020 |
Nasim Ahmed An Israeli taxi-hailing app, offering its Jewish customers the option which guarantees that they will not be picked up by an Arab cab driver, is being sued by human...
South Africa's President, Cyril Ramaphosa, compared US President Donald Trump's so-called "peace plan" for Palestine to apartheid South Africa's Bantustan system. The 33rd African Union Summit was launched yesterday...
South Africa aims to free up over a billion dollars in stalled weapons sales, including to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, by amending a document at the...