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By Mutahi Kagwe and Siddharth Chatterjee Guest Contributors NAIROBI, Kenya, April 3, 2020 (IPS) –– Many soldiers have seen, first-hand, the horrors of war and, terrifying though it often was, they knew who they were fighting, and could recognise their ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist COVID-19, Coronavirus, “Cora” or “Rona”, as some of you are calling it, is a killer, and it will kill you. Straight up, the virus is no respecter of age, stage, city or ethnicity. I am ...

Akebe Luther King Abia Guest Contributor The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, recently declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation, has taken the world by surprise. The good news is that tremendous scientific and technological advances have permitted scientists ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist The news has been received: yes, the coronavirus is here. Fear not. But mass panic is also here — fear. As a health-care professional for more than four decades, there is very little to which ...

By Dr. Kumar Mahabir Guest Writer Following the walk-out by all the international observers from a reportedly rigged vote-counting process in Guyana, incumbent President, David Granger, was making plans to swear himself in, as an illegal President. Then boom! The ...

By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Columnist Globally, March 8 was celebrated as International Women’s Day, and I proudly salute women, around the globe, as we all join in solidarity, to acknowledge the sacrifices and leadership that women, on a daily basis, ...

By Yvonne Sam                                                Contributing Columnist That Arab slavers were the first, and last, in modern times, to ship millions of Africans out of the continent as slaves? Most people still have the so-called Transatlantic [slave] trade by Europeans in mind; ...

By Shana Poplack Guest Contributor After students at a California high school were recently told to “translate” Black English phrases into standard English, a community member at a school board hearing said: “The last thing they need — our children — ...

By Yvonne Sam Pride Contributing Columnist On October 1, 2018, a general election was held in Quebec, to elect members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It was the first election in 40 years, wherein the issue of sovereignty was ...

By Yvonne Sam Pride Contributing Columnist Sadly, there is no candy–coated way to say this, hence, I am left with no alternative but to say it, boldly: in this bleak, broken, post-modern world, in which we live, we are all ...