Displaced Palestinians girls fill a plastic jerrycan with water at a school run by UNRWA, the UN agency helping Palestinian refugees, which they use as a shelter west of Gaza City, March 9, 2025
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.
As the Alliance of Sahel States and southern African nations advance pan-African goals, the African Union must listen and learn rather than parroting the Western line on these positive developments, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Money makers already exploit cleaning and catering contracts while the military-industrial complex diverts billions from health to warfare — but Bevan’s vision will endure as long as people fight for it, writes ROGER MCKENZIE
