Theme overview

How Israel’s Use of Militias in Gaza Revives a Colonial Formula of Divide and Rule

Israël lijkt het handboek voor kolonialisme van de plank te hebben gehaald. Met milities willen ze controle over Gaza.

Digital exile: How remote work is reshaping Sudanese lives in diaspora

Hoog opgeleide Soedanese vluchtelingen in Oeganda vinden hun waardigheid terug in werk.

‘Maybe I should never have returned to Syria’

17 jaar na zijn vlucht keert Roni H. als Belg terug naar Syrië. Een confronterende reis langs verlies, spijt en hoop.

A history of being starved in Gaza

Hunger has been used as a weapon in Palestine for generations.

‘Open Gaza for media and journalists’

RSF, CPJ and over 130 media outlets call for opening the Strip to foreign journalists.

‘We are not going to lose another hundred years, our moment is now’: will Syria become one again?

Wat onoverbrugbaar leek, wordt nu aan de onderhandelingstafel hertekend. Ontwikkelt zich een federaal Syrië?

Fanatical settlers take over West Bank and Israeli army

The thin line between soldiers and settlers in the West Bank.

Volunteers at Missing Maps make a difference in humanitarian crises

Missing Maps supports aid organizations by mapping areas for which no digital maps exist.

‘Sexual violence remains a weapon of war in Sudan. It must be addressed internationally’

Activist Yosra Akasha talks about sexual violence in her country, Sudan. ‘The perpetrators keep getting away with it.’

In Mauritania, both traditional and modern music is of social importance

In Mauritania, traditional and modern music are opposed to each other, but both have a social importance.

‘My people have carried nuclear trauma for generations’

Even without nuclear weapons being effectively used, the military use of nuclear energy causes a great deal of damage.

María Corina Machado: ‘Chavismo has destroyed democratic institutions in Venezuela’

MO* spoke with María Corina Machado about social destruction, state terror and hope in once prosperous Venezuela.

Political scientist Magnus Lundgren: ‘The UN has partly lost its role as a conflict mediator, but maybe that's not so bad’

Traditional conflict mediation is under severe pressure. New players, with different methods, are emerging.

‘Steep hills are reserved for good friends’

Rwanda and Belgium have not been friends for quite some time now. Why is that?

Who still wants to be in league with the Palestinian Authority?

The whole world wants to have its say on what the Palestinian Authority, the official Palestinian administration, should

Free Russia already exists

Russian emigrants are not giving up. In the past 3 years, a democratic Russia has emerged. In exile.

14 years after Syrian uprising, Syria balances between inclusion and power grab

The fall of the Assad regime three months ago was not the conclusion of this uprising, but merely a phase.

Watching the Lost City from Exile

‘My memories are my legacy, the thread that binds me to a place that refuses to let me go.’

Will There Be a Generation Beyond the Siege in 2025?

The Israeli war machine in Gaza is targeting the youngest generation. When will the world listen to them?

Hammour Ziada: 'Only by accepting the other can a lasting peace be achieved in Sudan'

The horror of sudan and the role of literature

Israel destroys European aid projects, EU lets it be

‘De Europese Unie: payer, geen player?’

India claims a central position in the new world order

Can India become the architect of a new world order, with multiple poles of power and fewer colonial legacies?

‘The land is dead’: once again, millions of Ethiopians are on the brink of famine

Voor sommige Ethiopiërs dreigt al de vierde hongersnood in hun leven. MO* ging ter plaatse uitzoeken wat dat betekent.

‘Everything that held us together as a people is now in ruins’