Nigerian Oluwatosin Ajibade is an afrobeats star who has toured with J Balvin, made tracks with Bad Bunny and Beyoncé and travels the world to discover new musical talent. His dream is a more just music industry in which African labels get a larger share of the profits
Peter Sands explains that artificial intelligence can have beneficial applications for development, and warns of the growing demonization of ‘the other’ for political purposes
Justin Arestein, South African disinformation expert, explains how African and foreign political actors are pushing claims that support their geostrategic interests with the help of artificial intelligence and cheaper technology
The United Kingdom’s cuts to international development funding threaten to reverse the path towards eliminating the so-called neglected tropical diseases in several African countries
A feeling of fragility has spread among the Israeli population due to the inability of its army to prevent the Hamas attack and the state’s military deployment in the West Bank in support of settlers
The FAO deputy director and regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean analyzes the perfect storm of conflict, climate, post-pandemic inflation, and inequality that is driving world hunger
Filmmakers from Africa are making an effort to fight for the restitution of the graphic memory of their continent, long stifled and distorted by the colonial powers
Pneumonia is a silent pandemic that causes more deaths than the coronavirus, but receives neither the attention nor funding necessary to combat it. Around 700,000 children under the age of five die every year from it, mostly in poor countries
Spanish Justice Minister Dolores Delgado walked out of the event at the former Nazi concentration camp, where thousands of exiled Spanish Republicans died
Freelancer Juan Moreno has become nothing short of a hero in Germany after he exposed star reporter Claas Relotius for making up stories for the prestigious weekly news magazine
Court in the northern German state of Schleswig Holstein has once again rejected charge of rebellion brought by the Spanish judiciary against ousted Catalan politician
People from at least 35 countries among victims; two Italians, two Portuguese, a Belgian, a US citizen, a Canadian, two Argentineans and a British–Australian confirmed dead