
CAMPAIGNERS slammed Israel today for following through on its threat to cut off the electricity supply to the Palestinians in Gaza.
The move by Israel on Sunday stopped the work of a desalination plant that now leaves around half a million people without access to clean drinking water.
It comes as Israel sent a team to Qatar to resume talks to extend the fragile ceasefire agreement with Hamas.

ROGER McKENZIE expounds on the motivation that drove him to write a book that anticipates a dawn of a new, fully liberated Africa – the land of his ancestors

While much attention is focused on Israel’s aggression, we cannot ignore the conflicts in Africa, stoked by Western imperialism and greed for natural resources, if we’re to understand the full picture of geopolitics today, argues ROGER McKENZIE