Who really owns Africa’s minerals?

Malawi bans raw exports, Tanzania bans rabies, the PKK withdraws from Turkey, Bolivia has a new president (and he's not a leftist), and Timor-Leste…

Oct 26 • Sham Jaff

How to Lose a Government in Four Months

Mongolia’s leadership collapses (again), Libya and Lebanon reopen old wounds, and the world feels permanently one push away from protest.

Oct 19 • Sham Jaff

The One Piece Generation

The protest movement inspired by anime is fueled by frustration. Madagascar’s Gen Z is done waiting for light, water, and change — and they’re not…

Oct 7 • Sham Jaff

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September 2025

Goodbye Kitty, or Japan's far-right

Argentina’s feminist outcry, Namibia’s wildfire, and new clues about China’s origins.

Sep 28 • Sham Jaff

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Cancer isn't equally deadly everywhere

New cancer diagnosis tools in East Africa, election in post-Assad Syria, referendum in Guinea & a new High Seas Treaty.

Sep 22 • Sham Jaff

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Nepal's uprising feels very 2025

A Gen Z voice from Nepal, a very shaky peace in South Sudan, and why the U.S. can’t stop looking at Vanuatu.

Sep 16 • Sham Jaff

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Don't Cry for Him, Argentina

Milei hits a wall, Mpox fades in Africa, Samoa’s new PM, a saint for the digital age.

Sep 8 • Sham Jaff

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August 2025

Doctors in Sudan speak out

Issue #436: Famine in Sudan, corporate imperialism in Colombia, Yazidi demands 11 years after the Sinjar genocide, and Ivorian grief stitched into art.

Aug 5 • Sham Jaff

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July 2025

I asked a reporter who was in Gaza: Is aid being used as a weapon?

A conversation with journalist Afeef Nessouli, who just returned from six weeks in the Strip, on how Israel and its allies restructured the aid system…

Jul 30 • Sham Jaff

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April 2025

“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 • Sham Jaff

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 • Sham Jaff

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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 • Sham Jaff

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