Tag: politics

• Africa’s Wikipedia Editors Are Changing How the World Sees Their Continent

  April 18, 2021

  There’s more information about the country of France than the entire continent of Africa on Wikipedia, says Sanneh. So, since 2018, the WikiAfrica Education initiative has been working to change that by… more ›

• Revealed: the huge British property empire of Sheikh Mohammed

  April 14, 2021

  The controversial ruler of Dubai has acquired a land and property empire in Britain that appears to exceed 40,000 hectares (100,000 acres), making him one of the country’s largest landowners,… more ›

• What Did the U.S. Get for $2 Trillion in Afghanistan?

  April 13, 2021

  The Taliban are gaining strength. Opium production has quadrupled. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/09/world/middleeast/afghanistan-war-cost.html more ›

• Burkina Faso ex-president Compaoré to face trial over Thomas Sankara murder

  April 13, 2021

  The exiled former president of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaoré, is to be tried in absentia in for the murder of Thomas Sankara, one of Africa’s most revered post-independence leaders who… more ›

• Trial of 12 men accused of planning far-right terror attacks opens in Stuttgart

  April 13, 2021

  The trial of 12 men accused of planning a series of far-right terror attacks on asylum seekers, Muslims, Jews and politicians in an attempt to overthrow German democracy has opened… more ›

• Remembering the Brixton riots 40 years on

  April 12, 2021

  In April 1981, a simmering tension between the police and Brixton’s black community erupted in violence. Forty years, on Aamna Modhin revisits that weekend with those who witnessed the events… more ›

• U.S. Intelligence Report Warns of Global Consequences of Social Fragmentation

  April 11, 2021

  A previous version of the report, released by the Obama administration, highlighted the risk of a pandemic and the vast economic disruption it could cause — a prescient prediction in… more ›

• Drought in Taiwan Pits Chip Makers Against Farmers

  April 10, 2021

  HSINCHU, Taiwan — Chuang Cheng-deng’s modest rice farm is a stone’s throw from the nerve center of Taiwan’s computer chip industry, whose products power a huge share of the world’s… more ›

• Getting political is becoming profitable for influencers in Peru

  April 6, 2021

  “I am rather lucky that brands are all about ‘disruptive’ influencers now. They have embraced my political positions, even if they are controversial,” she tells Rest of World, careful to ironically… more ›

• Is China Really Ready for Black Stories?

  April 3, 2021

  Since hitting Chinese theaters last December, the Oscar-nominated Disney-Pixar film “Soul” has pulled in more than 360 million yuan ($55.4 million) nationwide. https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1006968/is-china-really-ready-for-black-stories more ›