The death of Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o in May 2025 raises the question of his influence in French-speaking Africa: how ...

In 2022, more than 110 million people in Africa were directly affected by weather, climate and water-related hazards causing ...

A dowry is given so that a girl can hold her head high among others and not be looked down upon. Without it, in the groom’s family — especially from the mother-in-law or sisters-in-law — there’s a lot ...

It's not the first time a Western power has accused the Russian military agency GRU of cyberattacks, but never before has Paris has implicated Moscow based on its own intelligence.

The April 1986 disaster at Chernobyl’s nuclear powerstation is remembered as one of the darkest moments of Ukrainian history, ...

The news of two Azerbaijani brothers, Huseyn and Ziyaddin Safarov, getting killed following raids in the Russian city of ...

The group is demanding that Paetongtarn resign and for coalition parties to withdraw from the government. It is also calling ...

International Reggae Day (IRD) marks its 31st year with calls for a “refocus” – and perhaps a revival – of reggae music as a ...

In this essay, Ukrainian writer Yulia Stakhivska describes how cities partially destroyed by Russia’s invasion of 2022 learn to rebuild their image, revive their cultural past and try to heal.

The country’s president Shavkat Mirziyoyev has sought to frame the footballers’ recent victories as a vivid and materialized ...

In this essay, Olena Solodovnikova looks at the Soviet heritage of murals in today’s Ukraine and how younger artists try to ...

Adding to the climate of repression and human rights concerns, Turkish police conducted sweeping detentions during LGBTQ+ ...