Will Jacob Zuma and his MK party cause an upset in South Africa’s election? | Politics
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa – “We need change and we need change now,” said Princess Nozwe Zulu, sitting in her home in a low-income government housing…
Bangladesh opens mosque for transgender hijra community | In Pictures
Members of Bangladesh’s transgender hijra community, who were disallowed from attending other prayer services, have been welcomed at a new mosque in the Muslim-majority nation…
What’s behind the latest US sanctions on Zimbabwe President Mnangagwa? | Corruption News
In March, the United States imposed new sanctions on 11 Zimbabwean individuals, including President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his wife, and other officials, following allegations of…
A year of living less dangerously? Finland’s first 12 months in NATO | NATO News
One year ago, Finland abandoned its longstanding tradition of neutrality and became NATO’s 31st member. This entry into the transatlantic military alliance marked a turning…
Huge protests across Israel are telling Netanyahu to leave, will it happen? | Israel War on Gaza News
Six months into Israel’s devastating war on Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being accused of dragging out the conflict to stay in power…
Why mass kidnappings still plague Nigeria a decade after Chibok abductions | Armed Groups News
Lagos, Nigeria – In the decade since the armed group Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 students at an all-girls school in the town of Chibok,…
‘No means no’: How Portugal resisted the far right, but only just | The Far Right News
When the March elections in Portugal saw the hard-right political party, Chega, quadruple its parliamentary representation from 12 seats to 50, one conclusion appeared overwhelmingly…
One in 10 Afghan children under five malnourished, 45 percent stunted: UN | Poverty and Development
Roya carefully spoon-feeds her daughter fortified milk in a ward for malnourished children, praying the tiny infant will avoid a condition that stalks one in…
Four hundred years on, Mexico’s oldest Black community struggles to survive | Race Issues News
Oaxaca, Mexico – Outside Mama Cointa’s home where she has lived for almost all her life, guests have gathered to celebrate her 101st birthday. Her…
From prisoner to president in 20 days, Senegal’s Diomaye Faye takes office | Elections News
Dakar, Senegal – “Finally, we can breathe,” the cashier at the American Food Store supermarket in Dakar said while swiping a pot of Greek yoghurt…
Are Sudan’s civil society activists being targeted by both warring sides? | Features News
In Sudan’s war, even making food for the poor is dangerous. On March 23, Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) arrested activists from the Sharq…
The high cost of being a whistleblower in China | Health News
New York – In the early 1990s, a mysterious illness began to spread rapidly among villagers across several provinces in central China. At the time,…
Week in pictures: From a bridge collapse in the US to a protest in Brussels
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‘Humour is powerful’: Cartoons take on Uganda’s repressive government | Arts and Culture
Ugandan cartoonist Jim Spire Ssentongo didn’t know what he was starting last April when he sent out a tweet encouraging people to post photos of…
Shaheen Bagh, India’s citizenship law protest site, Delhi’s newest food hub | Food
String lights line the street and wafts of barbecue smoke fills the air as the evening envelopes Chaalis Futta Road in the Shaheen Bagh neighbourhood…
The Tories won an 80-seat landslide but are now meekly throwing in the towel – who wants to vote for that?
ACCORDING to Professor John Curtice, the Mystic Meg of polling gurus, Labour is now 99 per cent certain to win the general election. Ninety-nine per…
Senegal’s fishermen pin hopes on new president to help them fill their nets | Poverty and Development
Dakar, Senegal – For the traditional, small-scale fishermen of Ouakam Beach in Senegal’s capital Dakar, inequality is just a glance away. Adama Gueye, a 58-year-old…
Belfast mural artists put up powerful show of solidarity with Gaza | In Pictures
A group of mural artists in Northern Ireland have transformed Belfast’s iconic International Wall into the Palestinian Wall, in a show of solidarity with the…
Chocolate prices to keep rising as West Africa’s cocoa crisis deepens | Agriculture News
Long the world’s undisputed cocoa powerhouses, accounting for more than 60 percent of global supply, Ghana and its West African neighbour Ivory Coast are both…
Communing with spirits and coping with death: Grief food in three cultures | Food
In Mexico, pan de muerto (bread of the dead) is a special sweet bread made annually for the Day of the Dead in early November.…