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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionChurchill must fall
And he can take his British nationalism with him.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA history of violence: slavery, colonialism and coups d’etat
Only through an understanding of the historical impact of colonialism can we begin to heal the wounds caused by...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBlack lives should matter in the Mediterranean too
Malta’s fatal strategies to counter the growing number of refugees are part of the EU’s systematic racism and...
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Published in: 50.50Sex workers abandoned as COVID crackdowns undo Africa’s HIV efforts
Controlling COVID-19 is worsening Africa’s HIV epidemic and destroying HIV services, with sex workers facing...
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Published in: 50.50Now, I have to take whatever clients offer for sex
I’m a sex worker in South Africa. Sex usually costs 70 Rand (about $5), but now I have to accept almost half that,...
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Published in: 50.50South Africa doctors fear spike in non-COVID-19 deaths
Health workers are worried that the focus on coronavirus will result in more deaths from the country’s usual killers...
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Published in: HomeThe biopolitics of COVID-19 – a personal view
“As public health and societal debates play out in the coming months, I very much hope that we can hear more of the...
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Published in: 50.50Every night, I pray that the pandemic goes away
I’m an informal market trader in South Africa and the breadwinner in our family of four. But now I can’t afford even...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLocked up with no escape: refugees and migrants in Libya face bombs,virus and everything in between
While the situation in Libya is bleak overall, it remains exceptionally desperate for the refugees and migrants who...
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Published in: ourEconomyIntroducing the Wire International
Counteracting corporate media consolidation, the Progressive International has launched the Wire, to disseminate...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionSome people eat wild animals. Don't blame them for the pandemic
Speculation, half-truths, deliberate misrepresentations, Western prejudices, and the specter of ecofascism could...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLibya’s forgotten half: between conflict and pandemic, women pay the higher price
Now more than ever, the country needs everyone’s contribution to survive the upcoming changes.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaDoes anyone remember the chemical attacks on Sudanese civilians?
In 2016, Omar al-Bashir's government committed yet another war crime in Darfur by using poisonous gas against...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Covid-19 and agriculture: the coming contradictory hunger pandemic
To conceptualize agriculture as a way of catering to the needs of the many, while protecting what is left of nature,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaDetainees in Libya need protection: they must be released now
The right to health and life of detainees in Libya must be protected especially in times of pandemic.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaDespite COVID-19, Libya war rages with civilians at risk
After years of getting away with their crimes, armed groups in Libya continue to destroy the country’s fragile...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionHow Africa is leading the way to a zero waste future
From Egypt to Tanzania, public waste management schemes are offering green alternatives to privatisation.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt: a brutal history of state encounters
Egyptian photographer and director Shady Habash’s death in prison is one in a long history of state brutality in the country.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA Libya story: pandemic and human rights in times of conflict
How does a fragmented state fight a global pandemic?
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionPeople in the Global South don’t need debt relief, they need a new system
Far from being the 'great leveller', COVID-19 has exposed and deepened socio-economic inequalities.