People were hungry during lockdown. So Francis Zaake, a Ugandan member of parliament, bought some rice and sugar and had it delivered to his neediest constituents. For this charitable act, he was arrested. Mr Zaake is a member of the opposition, and Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has ordered that only […]
Trump didn’t tear up the playbook, but it still needs to be rewritten By John Campbell Early in his administration, U.S. President Donald Trump seemed poised to make major changes to U.S. policy toward Africa. His signature “America first” approach was inherently skeptical of foreign involvement, especially in what he […]
Steve Bannon, Russia’s Alexander Dugin and Brazil’s Olavo de Carvalho are united by their affinity with a spiritual movement that fundamentally rejects modernity. By Benjamin Teitelbaum Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, returned to the headlines in August, having been arrested on a yacht and charged with defrauding donors to a […]
By Simon Jenkins An unregulated internet was always likely to breed confusion, denial and conspiracy theories. This is its nadir. The president is not really sick. He is very sick. He is pretending. He is not pretending. That was his body double in the car. He may die. The illness […]