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Five years since the Mali coup of 2020, the key lesson is that the international community must move beyond the view of coups as isolated events.
Simbarashe Murozvi, Lecturer in economics, University of the Western Cape Child labour is a big concern across the world. It is particularly acute in countries in the global south, where it is ...
It's not the first time a Western power has accused the Russian military agency GRU of cyberattacks, but never before has Paris has implicated Moscow based on its own intelligence.
In 2022, more than 110 million people in Africa were directly affected by weather, climate and water-related hazards causing more than USD 8.5 billion in economic damages and at least 5,000 fatalities ...
A hydrologist explains why the region is known as Flash Flood Alley and how its geography and geology can lead to heavy downpours and sudden, destructive floods.
In this essay, Ukrainian writer Yulia Stakhivska describes how cities partially destroyed by Russia’s invasion of 2022 learn to rebuild their image, revive their cultural past and try to heal.
"I thought with my death, I would send a message as a last word to the state the country is in," Samadov told Ali.
American political history is littered with the wrecks of challengers who thought they could break the two-party system and failed. This makes Elon Musk’s tease that he may launch his own new ...
Four years on from the attacks on 9/11 - this was a time when, in the minds of many, Muslims were already associated with terrorism.
Sophie Davies, Lecturer in Nutrition & Dietetics, Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences, Cardiff Metropolitan University There’s long been evidence that what we eat can affect our risk of ...
The “Blitz spirit” is one of Britain’s most enduring national myths – the stories we tell ourselves about who we were, and who we still believe we are today. Growing up among football fans, I heard ...
Following reports of a widespread violent crackdown on largely peaceful student protesters in Belgrade and other major towns across Serbia for the sixth consecutive day since 28 June, when student ...