For Africa, non-alignment is no longer a survival strategy in the Iran war

An LPG gas tanker at anchor as traffic is down in the Strait of Hormuz, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Shinas, Oman on March 11, 2026. 

Photo credit: Reuters


The US and Israeli-led war with Iran is now past the two-week mark and promises to escalate further. Unfortunately, the consequences of war, like bushfires, care not about who is right, who is wrong or who supports which protagonist. It burns all with a vengeance.