The recent deadly shooting in a historic African American church in the U.S. state of South Carolina, this week, that left nine people dead, has brought Zimbabwe and South Africa into the spotlight.

In the chamber of the U.N. Security Council last week, there was an unsettling sense of history repeated. The gallery was crowded, and delegates representing most of the world’s nations stood in knots ...

Whereas in the course of human affairs, history has shown that it may become necessary for a people to resolve the political affiliations which have connected them with another people and to assume ...