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Utopia: Imagine a plastic-free life in your town

Climate
At a bustling fruit and vegetable market in Imbaba,...
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Masked as Religious schooling driven to forced begging, inside the plight of Senegal’s forgotten Talibé children

Culture
At five in the morning, while the streets of...
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Egypt’s Migrant Dilemma: What Does the State Really Want?

Refugees
At eleven o’clock at night, the Hadayek el-Ahram district...
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  Palestinians stuck in Egypt between two nightmares: returning to Gaza or facing an unknown future

Refugees
Since 2 February, when the reopening of the Rafah...
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The Voice That Echoed as Freedom: Umm Kulthum Through African Ears

Culture
I was not setting out in search of Umm...
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Masked as Religious schooling driven to forced begging, inside the plight of Senegal’s forgotten Talibé children

Culture
At five in the morning, while the streets of the Senegalese capital are still cloaked in pre-dawn darkness, Abdoulaye steps outside. No...

The Voice That Echoed as Freedom: Umm Kulthum Through African Ears

Culture
I was not setting out in search of Umm Kulthum; I was merely heading to catch a train. In Tanzania—a country of...

When Poetry Shakes the Throne: Verse as a Parallel Power in Somaliland

Culture
As night descended, Hargeisa sank into a hushed calm. The city, alive with motion by day, seemed to hold its breath after...

Gaarriye: A poet who made words his blade against tyranny 

Culture
One evening in the 1970s, a heavy silence settled over a café in Hargeisa. Tired faces and cautious glances spoke quietly of...