The UN high commissioner for human rights is probing “systemic racism, [and] violations of international human rights law against Africans and people of African descent by law enforcement agencies,” Marjorie Cohn reports.
The list, writes Danny Sjursen, includes the latest atrocity in northern Ethiopia – and the broader Horn of Africa chess game.
Ten years have slipped by since a man named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid, begins Vijay Prashad.
Many of us on the African continent clutch our unethically sourced pearls and briefly confront the ugly truths about our consumption, writes Takondwa Semphere. But then we forget.
The run on the coronavirus vaccine is also about power and image. Dispatches from Argentina, Kenya and Serbia.
During the Sudanese uprising, Khartoum became a carefully re-mapped city where only the revolutionaries knew its paths, writes Amar Jamal.
For those who are stateless, “fraud” can allow for the smuggling of truths into administrative lies, writes Keren Weitzberg.
Nick Turse reports on a humanitarian catastrophe that has only begun to unfold and has already uprooted more people than during all of World War II.
The shockingly inept response by many Western countries to a historic pandemic has amplified calls for Africa to turn to its once-closest allies, writes Vik Sohonie.
The authors respond to the almost permanent state of austerity that neoliberalism has imposed on much of the continent.