The answer to famine is not increased levels of food aid, but strategic planning to enable communities to survive the impact of extreme weather, made more acute by climate change.
The threat of terrorism has been exploited to justify anti-democratic laws and an escalation of arrests and detentions, apparently more focused on silencing dissent than anything else.
Hans Blix ponders his long career in international politics and diplomacy, the state of the Middle East, and why he is an advocate for nuclear power. Interview.
Al Qaeda’s franchise model continues to be attractive for al-Shabab despite the rise of ISIS.
A combination of political consensus, religious inclusion and economic stability is vital to combat the alienation, deprivation and chaos that lead to extremism.
Refugees in South Sudan's Yida camp dispute UNHCR arguments for their relocation once again.
Questioning revolutionaries’ conventional narrative of the January 25 revolution is the only way for Egypt to move forward.
On the fifth anniversary of the uprising, national dialogue is what brought Tunisia to where it is today.
The usual scapegoat returns, with fears that the land tenure system is the main culprit for low production and thus food shortages in a crisis, when it is not.
Five years ago, today, it began. The uprisings had no master narrative – they were a series of micronarratives produced by ordinary people.
Recent terrorist attacks are an opportunity to push for crucial curriculum and educational reforms in Egypt and the Muslim world.
