This year’s presidential elections in Uganda were seen as the most competitive yet for the country’s long-time incumbent Yoweri Museveni. They nonetheless look set to extend his 30-year reign, while his leading opposition rival, Kizza Besigye, has been arrested...
Four of the world’s leading authorities on ISIL discuss what the group strives to achieve with its global attacks:
“They’re baiting us” – Lydia Wilson
“This is a clear strategy to be brutal, to change the behaviour of the enemy”...
Yesterday, polls closed in Niger, where, in the second election after the 2010 military coup, sitting president Mahamadou Issoufou is intent on winning a second term.
Speaking to Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Vall, Issoufou outlined how he saw his legacy. “People...
Demonstrations against the government are a routine affair in the Ugandan capital Kampala, and Andrew Lwanga thought it would be just another day at work when he was assigned to cover a protest march by a few dozen unemployed...
This week marks the 32nd anniversary of the the gruesome killing of 5,000 Somalis, most from the Degodia sub-clan. Writer and researcher SALAH ABDI SHEIKH argues that the massacre was a premeditated act of genocide, not a military operation...
By almariam On February 11, 2016
It is the season for the Clintons to tar and feather Bernie Sanders.
Could their campaign of fear and smear against Bernie Sanders succeed?
I was shocked to see last week Chelsea Clinton rolled out in the role...
Should there be an outbreak of the Zika virus in Africa, the continent will not be able to cope. Shutterstock
February 10, 2016
By Adamson S. Muula
If the latest mosquito-borne Zika virus breaks out in Africa the continent would...
Material unearthed from William Shakespeare’s garden and hometown suggests that the famed British playwright smoked cannabis. Now a 400-year-old poem offers literary evidence to support this hypothesis.
The person behind the poem is a “John Taylor”. British engraver George Vertue...
Hans Blix, the former chief UN weapons inspector and ex-IAEA chief, speaks with Al Jazeera English:
Says he’s “doubtful” ISIL would exist without the U.S.-led Iraqi invasion
Supports Jeremy Corbyn’s desire to scrap Trident, the UK's nuclear deterrent, saying it’s...
Professor Noam Chomsky, the U.S. academic, award-winning author and public intellectual, speaks with Al Jazeera English's Mehdi Hasan
Says he would “absolutely” vote for Hillary Clinton over any Republican candidate, if he lived in a swing state
Calls Bernie Sanders...