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Wazobia: The Abuja football cup bridging Nigeria’s divides
Rain had just begun falling over Ijayapi, a community in Abuja’s Kubwa district, on the evening of 2 August, but the spectators stayed. Some stood around the dusty football field. Others perched on concrete blocks and unfinished buildings to keep above the water as players…
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WILL ETHIOPIA’S INTERNAL CONFLICT DRAW THE HORN OF AFRICA?
On 23 September 2026, daily life in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region was thrown into disarray. Employees at Alula Aba Nega Airport in the Tigrayan capital, Mekelle, were on their way to work when their supervisor called the driver to say that Tigrayan forces had taken over the…
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'What Will We Do?' Germany Confronts Its Fears After the Far-Right AfD's Historic Win in Saxony-Anhalt
Itzel Fatiema, a nurse originally from Afghanistan, has been living in Germany for more than twelve years. She cared for patients through a pandemic, but now faces what she describes as a rising tide of hostility that has become impossible for her to ignore. ‘I feel stuck and I…
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Opuntia Stricta – the Invasive Cactus Devouring African Rangelands
Livestock are Lazarus Lentula’s livelihood. For years, recurrent droughts have forced the herder in Kenya’s Laikipia County, like many others , to trek hundreds of miles across county lines in search of pasture. Today, however, Lentula told FairPlanet, another threat is eating…
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Reclaiming Public Media: Can Central Europe Break the Cycle?
On the afternoon of July 7, Hungary’s evening news never arrived. At 4 p.m., M1, the country’s main public television channel, went dark . Instead of the usual programming, viewers saw a black screen and an apology: public media had lied for years and would now be reformed to…
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INSIDE THE STABILISATION CENTRE WHERE MALNOURISHED NIGERIAN CHILDREN RECEIVE FREE TREATMENT
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Saxony-Anhalt, one month after the election: A view from a psychiatric hospital
On Monday following the elections, everyone went to work as usual. Yet beneath the apparent calm, there was a palpable sense of uncertainty: how would a state government led by the regional branch of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) – a party classified as right-wing extremist…
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Insurgents Took Over Their Lake. But They Stayed to Feed a Hungry Region
Since his early teenage years in the 1990s, Yusuf Usman has drawn his livelihood from the waters of Lake Chad in his hometown of Baga, northeastern Nigeria. He recalls a time before the Boko Haram insurgency hit hard, when he would cast a net and return home with a heavy catch…
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Justin Marozzi Explored the History of Slavery in Islam — And Immediately Came Under Fire
(This interview was originally published in Haaretz’s Hebrew edition and is reproduced here in translation, with permission) It was during the Libyan uprising of 2011, at a meeting in Tripoli with a group of rebels, that British journalist and historian Justin Marozzi overheard…
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Fixers – A Profession Created by Crises
Local media workers, often described simply as fixers, are essential to international reporting around the world, especially during wars and crises Two Ukrainian fixers describe how Russia’s full-scale invasion shaped their lives, and the professional, ethical and psychological…
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Three Months After Venezuela’s Earthquake, People Are Still Surviving It
‘It’s gone. It’s all gone.’ That is what my father told me a few days after the earthquake, when authorities finally allowed him to see what remained of his building. He had lived there for twenty years. The building had collapsed, and none of our neighbors survived. But he…
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How Electric Tricycles are Reclaiming Mobility for Nigerian Women
When, in 2025, 19-year-old Zainab Abubakar advanced to 200 Level in the Department of History and International Studies at Northwest University in Kano State , North-West Nigeria, her mind started drifting towards what to do to make her own income. ‘To be a supportive daughter,’…
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TIMELINE: XENOPHOBIC INCIDENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA
On 30 June 2026, anti-immigrant protests took place across South Africa. The protesters, some of whom carried sticks and spears , took part in the march to mark an unofficial deadline anti-migrant groups had set for undocumented foreigners to leave the country. This development…
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Studying in Wartime Lviv
Russia’s war against Ukraine is often described in terms of military operations. Far less attention is given to the damage being inflicted on the country’s education system and to the students and lecturers trying to maintain academic life and build a future under wartime…
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Encircled by the Sea
Over the past few decades, accelerating global climate change has pushed Indonesia toward an escalating ecological crisis in the form of rising sea levels – further compounded by rapid development and industrial expansion. Several areas along the north coast of Java have begun…
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AS XENOPHOBIC VIOLENCE RESURFACES, SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT WATCHES ON
On 30 June 2026, anti-immigrant protests took place across South Africa. The protesters, some of whom carried sticks and spears , took part in the march to mark an unofficial deadline anti-migrant groups had set for undocumented foreigners to leave the country. In Durban, South…
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Ukraine Living through War
It’s been more than twelve years since the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine with the annexation of Crimea as well as the seizure of territory in the Donbas by Russia-backed separatist forces. And it’s been more than four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion . While…
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How the War Has Changed Ukrainians’ Eating Habits
For more than four years, Ukrainians are living in the reality of Russia’s full scale invasion. Rising prices, stress and insecurity have forced many to change their eating habits. These changes can be observed up close in a small café in Lviv – a place where people from very…
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The UAE's Role in Sudan Exposes the Modern Face of Neocolonialism
The UAE’s involvement in Sudan exposes a deeper system of neocolonial power, where economic exploitation, political influence and proxy warfare allow external powers to benefit from a country’s continued dependence. Its simultaneous role in fuelling the conflict and funding…
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Lebanon’s Tiered Legal System Rears Its Ugly Head, Pushing Domestic Migrant Workers to the Brink
Kaluwa , a Kenyan migrant who arrived in Lebanon in October 2023, hoped the job’s remittances would support her family, including the four-year-old son she left behind. Instead she found herself trapped: ‘She [her employer] was verbally abusing, saying a lot of things that…