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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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From Berbera to Bab al-Mandab: “Somaliland” as a platform for Emirati and Israeli hegemony in the Red Sea

Rights & Freedoms
By unilaterally and unlawfully recognising the secessionist region of Somaliland, Tel Aviv has effectively established a strategic presence near the Bab el-Mandeb...

Mali’s Agony: Iyad Ag Ghali and the Human Cost of Terror

News
It was close to four in the morning when I woke up in the courtyard of our house in Bandiagara. The town...

Guinea-Bissau: Barons, Coup-Makers, and the Poor

News
It feels all too familiar, given how often it occurs and how similar the pattern is across the African continent, particularly in...

Trapped in the Web of “Fashion’s Spider”.. We Export Cotton to the West, Only to Wear Its Waste

Rights & Freedoms
We spend months planting, nurturing, and harvesting cotton, only for it to be shipped abroad, while we are left with nothing to...