Archive - what happened last week

“Trade Should Work for People”: A Conversation with Transform Trade + Gabon's elections, Sudan vs UAE

Issue #421: Japan’s ambassador loves Yorkshire tea, Meta gets sued in Kenya, Andrée Blouin is back, and so much more.

Apr 14 •

The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal charges Turkey with war crimes against Kurds

Issue 420: India vs. its 200 Muslims (again), an African history of Africa, a novel about ISIS, and a Japanese rat... in soup.

Apr 7 •

March 2025

“The Heart Does Not Grieve Over What the Eye Does Not See”

Why Germans still look away from their colonial past—and what it means for justice in Namibia.

Mar 28 •

All eyes on Balochistan, İmamoğlu in jail, orientalist "White Lotus"

Issue 419: How not to report on Eastern Congo, NASA's feminist graphic novels that vanished from the website, and Vietnam's coolest province right now

Mar 23 •

History is written by the haters, Kenyan AI images and chapatis + Sudan update

Issue 418: Byzantine Orientalism, the missing children of Halabja, Duterte is in the Hague, and so much more.

Mar 17 •

Rohingya refugees just lost half of their food aid. Now what? + Syria update, Pakistan's women's rights

Issue 417: Food aid for Rohingya slashed, Syria’s latest crisis, Pakistan’s women’s rights fight, Sudan vs. UAE at the ICJ, a rising Nigerien designer…

Mar 9 •

Can You Publish a Book on WhatsApp? Zimbabweans Say Yes + The PKK's "End", How to Beat Western Cloud Monopoly in Africa

Issue 416 (pt. 2): DIY cloud services in Nigeria, Japan’s worst wildfire in decades, South Africa’s HIV crisis, what’s really happening with the PKK…

Mar 2 •

February 2025

What's India got to do with West Africa's opioid crisis? + Filipino R&B, Malian cinema and Bhojpuri pop

Issue 416: Investigative journalism in India saves millions of teenagers in Nigeria, latest report on capital punishment in Iran, scientific discoveries…

Feb 24 •

Cambodia 1:0 malaria, Argentina's crypto hype-and-crash story, M23 in Bukavu

Issue 415: Cambodia's almost done with malaria, President Milei & $LIBRA, DRC & Sudan update, first-ever trial for a vaccine against Ebola Sudan…

Feb 17 •

102 million people live in the DRC–Here's what they're facing

Issue 414: Fighting escalates in the DRC, Syria’s gas attack survivors speak out, the world faces an antibiotic crisis, Modi scores a major win, Sudan’s…

Feb 10 •

January 2025

Ghana's anti-LGBTQ+ bill is dead (for now)

Issue 412: A Taliban official criticized the government’s treatment of women, new UN report highlights Haiti’s crisis, sanctions on Sudan leaders, Cuba…

Jan 22 •

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