Tensions in South Africa over anti-migrant protests have left in limbo many who were counting on following the rules to sort out their paperwork and status in the country. Calls for a crackdown on foreigners, particularly undocumented migrants, have sometimes…

Oliver Farry welcomes Oliver Davis, Head of the Department of French at University College Cork. According to Professor Davis, the government’s handling of the student protests reflects a combination of “tactical confusion” and an inadequate response to deeper structural problems.…

Algeria will send army units to Niger to ​protect energy and economic interests, according to a statement from the presidency on Monday (October 26). Algeria’s Parliament held an emergency vote on Sunday on what would be Algeria’s first such foreign…

In France, after weeks of student unrest, the government announced new school measures. Student union leaders said it’s a first step but vowed to keep mobilising as they expected further proposals.

Six French men were sentenced to life in prison by an Iraqi court on Tuesday for membership of the Islamic State (IS) group, according to a source. They are ​among ‌47 French IS group suspects transferred from ⁠detention facilities in Syria…

As Israelis head to the polls this Tuesday, among those voting are 2 million Palestinian citizens of Israel, some of whom live in mixed Jewish-Arab towns. One of them, Lod, has long been seen as symbolic of this coexistence. However…

Sudan’s war is spilling over into Chad. A drone strike killed at least four people last week in the border town of Bamina, and hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees have crossed over in search of safety. Many of those…

Syria’s foreign ministry on Tuesday condemned Jordanian strikes in southern Syria in retaliation for a deadly church attack in the kingdom last week that Amman linked to militants operating across the border. Syria said the strikes killed seven ⁠people, including three children…