Signwriters rush to replace colonial street names with news ones in April 1964, a few months after Kenya’s independence on December 12, 1963. AFP via Getty Images Fri 09 June 2023: Place names, along with other urban symbols, were used as a tool of control over space in many African countries during the colonial period. This strategy […]
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Fri 09 June 2023: Images of orange, hazy skies across Canada and parts of US fuel calls to tackle climate crisis making wildfires worse. Montreal, Canada – “Do you smell smoke?” That’s the question people in Canada have been asking each other this week as hundreds of wildfires are burning in what has been described as an […]
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Members of the Taliban Badri 313 military unit. Sun 04 June 2023: Iran expects Taliban to fulfill its promises in practice, while also wondering about stance of international community, regional actors In three questions, Mehmet Koc discusses the dispute between Iran and the Taliban with possible scenarios for the region. What is the dispute […]
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Imtiaz Sooliman, of Gift of the Givers, said conscious leadership is spiritual. It is “when the soul starts thinking of how to behave correctly”. Sun 04 June 2023: Many citizens of the global south have noticed some obvious trends in the news in the past few weeks. These highlight issues in the international system of […]
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Historic marker for Omar Ibn Said outside of a mosque named after him. Photo: Gerry Dincher. Tue 30 May 2023: The inspiring stories of scholar-slaves such as Ayyuba Suleiman Diallo and Omar Ibn Said shed light on the overlooked intellectual resilience and cultural heritage during the transatlantic trade. It could have been a perfect, […]
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Sun 28 May 2023: Ten percent of the world’s population does not have enough food, the highest number in more than a decade. Hunger levels are rising around the world. As many as 828 million people – or 10 percent of the world’s population – go to bed hungry each night, 46 million more than […]
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Sun 28 May 2023: It is unclear why 100-year-old Henry Kissinger has been elevated by Western intelligentsia to serve the role of the visionary in how the West should behave in response to the Russia-Ukraine war. But does the centenarian politician have the answers? Every major global conflict that involved the US and its NATO […]
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Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (L) with Britain’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman (Photo: Phil Noble/AFP) Fri 26 May 2023: I arrived in the United Kingdom in 2010 on a rubber dinghy. If this bill was in place then, I might not be alive today. On May 16, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak addressed a Council […]
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Tue 23 May 2023: Embraces are fleeting, and a person may move from one embrace to another for whatever reason. This is not a phrase to promote a brothel and wasn’t said by a prostitute as she went from the embrace of one to another. It was actually said in the speech by the head […]
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Wed 17 May 2023: Istanbul, Turkey – Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised his supporters a “bigger victory” when they return to the polls in 12 days’ time in a run-off vote for the country’s top job. Erdogan, who is seeking a third term as president and a five-year extension of his 20-year rule, has appeared in […]
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