Four of the world’s leading authorities on ISIL discuss what the group strives to achieve with its global attacks:
“They’re baiting us” – Lydia Wilson
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Yesterday, polls closed in Niger, where, in the second election after the 2010 military coup, sitting president Mahamadou Issoufou is intent on winning a...
Demonstrations against the government are a routine affair in the Ugandan capital Kampala, and Andrew Lwanga thought it would be just another day at...
This week marks the 32nd anniversary of the the gruesome killing of 5,000 Somalis, most from the Degodia sub-clan. Writer and researcher SALAH ABDI...
By almariam On February 11, 2016
It is the season for the Clintons to tar and feather Bernie Sanders.
Could their campaign of fear and smear against Bernie...
Should there be an outbreak of the Zika virus in Africa, the continent will not be able to cope. Shutterstock
February 10, 2016
By Adamson...
Material unearthed from William Shakespeare’s garden and hometown suggests that the famed British playwright smoked cannabis. Now a 400-year-old poem offers literary evidence to...
Hans Blix, the former chief UN weapons inspector and ex-IAEA chief, speaks with Al Jazeera English:
Says he’s “doubtful” ISIL would exist without the...
Professor Noam Chomsky, the U.S. academic, award-winning author and public intellectual, speaks with Al Jazeera English's Mehdi Hasan
Says he would “absolutely” vote for Hillary...
January 27, 2016
A truck bearing the image of President Yoweri Museveni in Masindi town, Uganda, ahead of the upcoming presidential election. Reuters/James Akena
This year,...