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Benin says Colonel Pascal Tigri is seeking refuge in neighboring Togo.

On November 17, the United Nations Security Council voted for a brazenly colonial plan for Gaza. The vote crystallized a truth long evident to much of the Global South: the multilateral system, dominated by Western power, cannot restrain Western-backed impunity. For the past year, the Hague Group has begun to chart another path — one […]

The UAE said it will invest $1 billion toward AI infrastructure and services across Africa, but the relationship between the two still has a deeply problematic dimension.

The court cited privacy concerns over the potential storage and use of citizens’ data.

Officials say the trip would take around two hours, compared to a 90-minute flight, and services are expected to begin in six years.

The deal will build on the UAE’s more than 30 CEPAs, free-trade-style pacts that incorporate services and other forms of economic cooperation.

Award-winning Palestinian reporter Mohammed Mhawish, who left Gaza last year, joins us to discuss his new piece for New York magazine about Israel’s surveillance practices. It describes how Palestinians throughout the genocide in Gaza have been watched, tracked and often killed by Israeli forces who have access to their most intimate details, including phone and text records, social relations, biometric data and more. This all-encompassing surveillance system is “reshaping how people speak, how they’re moving, how they’re even thinking,” says Mhawish. “It manufactured behavior for people, so they shrink their lives to reduce risk, they rehearse what version of themselves feels safest to present, and that creates an enormous psychological burden.” Mhawish also describes the terror of when his family’s house was bombed, killing two of his cousins and two neighbors in an attack he says was linked to Israeli surveillance of his reporting activities. “I was being watched and tracked,” he says.

The US had imposed sanctions on the vessel under claims it was involved in the Iranian oil trade.

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