Umamah Bakharia Last week, US president Joe Bidden met one-on-one with the leaders of Egypt, Iraq and the United Arab...
Political (opinion) Articles
What’s Behind The Recent Mass Killings in SA? – Experts Unpack
Umamah Bakharia In the past few weeks, South Africa has been witnessing mass killings across the country. In the...
Will Biden’s Middle East visit play a role in Saudi Israeli normalisation?
By Neelam Rahim In a discussion with Radio Islam International, Hafez Ebrahim Moosa says that Joe Biden, the United...
Constitutional Court’s Afrikaans ruling in Support of Afriforum: It’s About the Process Not Necessarily the Policy
Ebrahim Deen The constitutional court’s September 22 ruling upholding a Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) decision that the University of South Africa’s 2016 language policy was unconstitutional, is substantively different to other decisions in support of the University...
Intercepted migrant numbers double, but still low when compared to previous figures
By Ebrahim Deen 22:09:2021 Over the past week, two vessels rescued over 190 migrants off the Libyan coast en route to Italy, with dozens more reportedly drowning. The International Organisation for Migration reports that more than 24 thousand migrants have been...
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[LISTEN] Behind the Attempted Coup in Sudan
Ebrahim Deen Authorities in Sudan on Tuesday announced the thwarting of a coup attempt from what it called former Omar Al Bashir loyalists. Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok argued that, “For the first time, people involved in the attempt were arrested… They are being...
Shared Insights into Significant Recent Events
Umm Muhammed Umar Scott Lucas, founding editor of EA Worldview, a professor at University of Birmingham, in the United Kingdom, spoke to Radio Islam about some of the significant events that have taken place in the last few weeks. Touching on the developments in...
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[LISTEN] India: Ten Months of Ongoing Farmers Protests
Umm Muhammed Umar The farmers protest in India, now in its 10th month, has been putting pressure on the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Nivedita Khandekar, associate editor at IANS, India's largest private news agency, spoke to Radio Islam about the laws...
When liberators face prosecutions
By Staff Writer 17:09:2021 The trial of Salih Mustafa, a Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander and Kosovan politician, commenced on Wednesday, with Mostafa criticising the court's motivations. The trial, scheduled to sit between September and October, is taking place...
Is another civil war looming for Afghanistan?
By Annisa Essack 22:08:2021 The Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan lasted a decade from 1979 until 1989. The Mujahideen, or resistance fighters, was supported the United States in their fight against Soviet forces. The years after the Soviet pull-out, under the rule of...
Ahmed Kathrada Foundation: Former President Jacob Zuma’s Sentence sets a Stern Precedent
He has become known as the Teflon man escaping a guilty verdict in a rape case, managing now for years to avoid standing trial, and corruption charges, that is until yesterday, when the Constitutional Court found former President Jacob Zuma guilty of contempt of...
August 5th Significant in ‘Red for Kashmir’ Campaign
5th August 2021 is a significant day in the ‘Red for Kashmir’ campaign. Recently, the world witnessed something similar but in a different context: the very successful Black for Rohingya campaign. Based in the United Kingdom, Claire Bidwell of the ‘Red for Kashmir’...