
ISRAEL was widely condemned today for the assassination of the political head of Hamas in a rocket attack in Tehran.
The attack came hours after a top Hezbollah commander was killed in a bomb attack on Beirut.
The brazen murders in the capital cities of two nearby countries leave the Middle East on the brink of an all-out war and ceasefire talks over the fighting in Gaza in tatters.

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