Conflict & Security

Egypt has imposed a business curfew requiring shops, restaurants, and shopping malls to close by 9pm each night for an initial period of one month. On the surface, the measure — announced as part of a package of energy conservation measures — appears administrative. Look deeper, and it exposes a nation in the grip of

When Iranian air strikes hit Dubai’s Jebel Ali port on March 1st, 2026 — just four days after the United States and Israel launched their war on Iran — few anticipated that a sleepy Kenyan island would emerge as one of the conflict’s strangest beneficiaries. Thousands of high-end cars, originally destined for the UAE and

While the guns of the Middle East war boom in the distance, a quieter competition is intensifying across Africa — one fought with investment contracts, port leases, and infrastructure deals rather than missiles. The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are rapidly accelerating their economic footprints on the continent, seizing on regional instability to deepen

When South Africa’s top police officer is charged with corruption, you know the crisis in the country’s law enforcement institutions has reached a new and alarming threshold. The charges laid against the national police chief in March 2026 are not merely embarrassing for the service — they expose a rot that runs from the leadership