insert_link South Africa Ordinary white South Africans and apartheid – bound to a racist system they helped prop up By Neil Roos, University of Fort Hare In South Africa, apartheid was a divisive political system entrenched by a white minority who regarded other ethnic groups as inferior, creating townships on the outskirts of cities to house the black population and legislation to control their movements. Many academic studies have focused on black life under apartheid, but few on white life – and even fewer on […] todayJuly 10, 2024 17
insert_link Africa Sudan warring sides using starvation as weapon: UN experts Both sides in Sudan's brutal civil war are using starvation as a weapon of war, UN experts said Wednesday, charging that foreign governments providing them military support were "complicit" in war crimes. War has raged for more than a year between the regular military (SAF) under army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo. […] todayJune 26, 2024 16