By Jacob Botoga - Truthout
Nearly 23 million Afghans are facing “crisis levels of hunger” and 8.7 million are on the “brink of starvation.” This mass hunger has rendered millions of Afghans on the “verge of death,” according to UN Secretary-General António Guterres. Alongside...
By Anna Bisignano
Since 2009, the Boko Haram uprising and subsequent responses have devastated northeastern Nigeria and the border regions of Cameroon, Chad and Niger. The conflict has caused the deaths of several thousand people, over 2.3 million people are...
By Ambra Visentin
"For a long time, China has avoided calling its adversary - the United States - by its name, but now the time has come to do so". This is how Alexei Maslov, professor and director of the...
Nairobi (from our correspondent)
In 2022 only, ten internet shutdowns in six countries around the world had already caused a loss of more than $621 million. And from 2019 to date, with 257 major service outages in 46 countries, the...
By Camilo Montoya-Gálvez – CBS NEWS
After a recent internal review, the Biden administration decided to maintain a pandemic-era order put in place under former President Donald Trump that authorizes the rapid deportation of migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border, the...
by our Director, Raffaele Crocco.
South Korea 2018. Tokyo 2020 - effectively, 2021. Now Beijing, 2022: it is not at all strange that the Olympic Games have taken the road to the East. It is the third consecutive Olympics in...
By Valentina Ochner
On 25 January, work began on the construction of a wall on the border with Belarus, which is to replace the existing barbed wire fence to stem the flow of migrants to Poland. Last October, the Polish...
By Alice Pistolesi
The fragility of the African political systems is becoming increasingly evident. In the last eighteen months, Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, Sudan, Guinea and Chad have been affected by coups d'état. We asked Francesco Strazzari, professor of political...
by Emanuele Giordana, reporting from Nairobi
Africa remains at the centre of the international community's concerns due to all the risks associated with hunger: Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen in particular remain at the highest level of alert, writes...
By Alice Pistolesi
"A predictable tragedy that highlights the need for urgent international action". This is how UN official Vladimir Voronkov described the siege at al-Sina'a prison in north-eastern Syria. The prison, stormed by Islamic State jihadists on 20 January,...
