The torching of a Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 billboard in Chinhoyi has added a volatile new dimension to Zimbabwe’s deepening constitutional dispute, signalling that public opposition to the proposed changes is no longer confined to legal experts, opposition parties, civil society groups or internal ZANU-PF factions. The destruction of the billboard, reportedly followed by a swift and heavy-handed security response against informal vendors in the area, has sharpened concerns that any attempt to rush the amendment through Parliament could inflame public anger and turn a constitutional dispute into a wider domestic and regional stability crisis. CAB3 has become the…

By Andre Pienaar The Kingdom of Bahrain announced on 09 May 2026 the dismantling of an Iranian-directed network of 41 operatives inside the country, with a further 11 handlers identified in Iran serving as the conduit between the cell and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The Interior Ministry’s statement the following day, 10 May, was striking for its specificity: the network was rooted in the residue of the dissolved Islamic Scholars Council (ISC) and its followers, and was charged with forming a terrorist group, financing terrorism, spying for Iran, contacting terrorist organisations in Iraq and Lebanon, and receiving military…

Earlier this month, on 03 May, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa made a private visit to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Precabe Farm in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe, sharpening regional attention on the country’s deepening constitutional dispute amid concerns that proposed changes to Zimbabwe’s founding rules could trigger instability well beyond Harare. While both governments have since publicly framed the meeting as a routine bilateral engagement, its timing has made that explanation difficult to sustain. Zimbabwe’s Parliament is expected to consider Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 before the end of May, a measure that would extend presidential and parliamentary terms from five to seven…

The British government has sanctioned nine people and three organisations accused of hostile activities for Iran. The Foreign Office issued travel bans, asset freezes and director disqualification orders to nine people and three entities linked to “Iranian backed hostile activity”.The move comes just days before the UK is expected to introduce new anti terror laws to ban state threats such as Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in the next parliamentary session.National Security News (NSN) understands that the new powers will be included in the government’s plans for legislation, which will be set out in the King’s Speech on 13…

The Trump administration’s new counterterrorism strategy formally integrates offensive cyber operations into the United States’ broader campaign against terrorist groups, cartels, and hostile state actors, marking one of the clearest public acknowledgements yet that cyber capabilities are now considered a core pillar of modern counter-terror operations. The strategy states that counter-terror activities against hostile states “include offensive cyber operations against those planning to kill Americans or who support those plotting to do so”, alongside kinetic, intelligence, diplomatic and covert measures. The document expands the range of actors Washington now considers legitimate counter-terror targets. In addition to ISIS and al Qaeda,…

After the Constitutional Court’s Phala Phala ruling, the question Parliament shelved in 2022 must now be answered — and the money trail leads to Khartoum and Teheran. By Staff Writer On Friday 08 May 2026, exactly thirty years after the adoption of the South African Constitution, Chief Justice Mandisa Maya delivered a unanimous judgment of the Constitutional Court that places one of the document’s principal architects, President Cyril Ramaphosa, under formal parliamentary investigation. The court declared the National Assembly’s December 2022 vote rejecting the Section 89 independent panel’s Phala Phala report to be irrational, unconstitutional and invalid; struck down Rule…

By Sean Rayment Britain has agreed to create a unified naval force with nine European countries to deter future Russian threats from the “open sea border” to the north, the head of the Royal Navy has announced. General Sir Gwyn Jenkins said that despite the ongoing crisis in the Middle East, where the Strait of Hormuz remains closed after the US-Israeli war in Iran, “Russia remains the gravest threat to our security”. In a speech at the Royal United Services Institute, Gen Jenkins said the UK was “at an inflection point” and that “there is no time to lose” as…

By Andre Pienaar Theresa May expelled 23 Russian intelligence officers after the Salisbury nerve-agent attack by the Russian GRU. The Iranian embassy’s open call for martyrs in London, an Iranian sponsored terrorist group focused on targets across London, followed by yesterday’s stabbings of two Jewish men in Golders Green, demands the same response. On Wednesday morning, two Jewish men aged 76 and 34 were stabbed in broad daylight on a residential street in Golders Green. The Metropolitan Police declared it a terrorist incident. Britain’s Chief Rabbi, Sir Ephraim Mirvis, named the victims as Nachman Moshe ben Chaya Sarah and Moshe…

How an Argentine special prosecutor was killed on the eve of his testimony against the IRGC — and why the cover-up still matters By Andre Pienaar The case against Ahmad Vahidi, now Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was built by one brave man over eleven years. His name was Alberto Nisman. He was killed in his Buenos Aires apartment on 18 January 2015, twelve hours before he was due to present that case to the Argentine Congress. The decade that has passed since his death has produced a slow, difficult and contested judicial reversal, from an initial…

By Andre Pienaar On 18 July 1994, a man named Ibrahim Hussein Berro drove a Renault Trafic van loaded with several hundred kilograms of ammonium nitrate, aluminium powder and TNT into the front of a seven-storey building on Calle Pasteur in Buenos Aires. The building housed the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, the social and welfare hub of Argentina’s Jewish community. The blast killed 85 people and injured more than 300. It remains the deadliest terrorist attack in Argentine history. Argentina’s Court of Cassation ruled in April 2024 that the attack had been planned by Iran and executed by Hezbollah. Earlier…

By Ben Farmer Russia spent millions of dollars paying influencers and placing propaganda in news outlets to spread disinformation across Africa, according to leaked documents. A network of 35 websites and media organisations published more than 700 articles after receiving Russian funding in 2024 alone, as part of a continent-wide disinformation scheme. Articles were commissioned for between $250 and $700 each and covered subjects ranging from alleged French “neo-colonialism” to claims that a World Health Organization-backed malaria vaccination programme was using African children as guinea pigs. Others promoted Moscow’s position on the Ukraine war or amplified anti-Western conspiracy theories. Details…

By Andre Pienaar The world is at war. The number of active cross-border conflicts now exceeds anything seen since 1945, with more than seventy-eight countries entangled in conflicts beyond their own borders. A “world at war” is at risk of becoming a “world war.” The war in Ukraine is linked to the conflict with Iran through the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty signed between Moscow and Tehran in 2025. That treaty enables the transfer of weapons and advanced technology, the sharing of intelligence, and the coordination of hybrid operations between two states with overlapping grievances against the West. Russia and Iran…