By Olayinka Ajala, Associate professor in Politics and International Relations, Leeds Beckett University
Darrin Patrick McDonald, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Leeds Beckett University
The precarious security situation in Mali took a turn for the worse in late April 2026. Well coordinated attacks targeted several cities and claimed the lives of the defence minister, Sadio Camara, and several Malian soldiers.
The events are a culmination of increased attacks over the past few years on the military and state institutions in Mali.
We have been…
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By Sam Jones, Senior Research Fellow, World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), United Nations University
Economic conditions for ordinary Mozambicans are deteriorating. Poverty has risen, public services are unreliable and there are few decent job opportunities.
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By Heather Ellis, Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, School of Education, University of Sheffield
The UK government has launched its first review of school food standards in over a decade, alongside plans to extend free school meals to an additional 500,000 children in families receiving universal credit.
Much of the coverage has focused on specific menu changes, including the possible removal of sugary desserts such as steamed sponge. The focus on such changes might be reflective of how school…
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By Berenice Langdon, Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant, St George's, University of London
The probiotic industry is worth US$112 billion. But if you knew what was actually inside that capsule, would you still buy it?
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By Chee Meng Tan, Assistant Professor of Business Economics, University of Nottingham
Europe’s wind turbines have become part of a wider struggle over energy security, industrial power and the west’s dependence on China.
European wind power capacity has surged dramatically in recent years. Wind energy now supplies 17% of EU electricity up from 13% in 2019. Offshore wind has expanded particularly rapidly, with installed capacity growing strongly over the past decade.
But…
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By Chris Perry, Professor in Tropical Coastal Geoscience, University of Exeter
Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip, Professor of Marine Ecology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
For decades, coral reefs throughout the Caribbean have been suffering from disease, pollution, overfishing and rising sea temperatures, yet most have continued to grow – until now.
In 2023 and 2024, surface temperatures climbed to record highs in the world’s oceans, and a marine heatwave of unprecedented length and intensity spread across the tropics. Satellites from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration detected heat stress that could cause corals to bleach across more than 80% of the
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By Thomas George Evans, Principal Investigator, Freie Universität Berlin
Biological invasions can severely harm the welfare of animals, causing them to suffer. AWICIS is a new framework that can be used to assess the severity of these impacts.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A child from Guatemala holds his stuffed monkey as he waits inside Miami International Airport to leave the United States and reunite with his recently deported parents in Guatemala, in Miami, Florida, December 4, 2025. © 2025 Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images Wilfredo, a 10-year-old child from Venezuela, appeared in immigration court on his own two weeks ago, forced to fight his deportation to Ecuador while his mother remained imprisoned in an ICE facility. Like thousands of children in removal proceedings, Wilfredo does not have an attorney.“I was afraid…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan delivers remarks following the presentation of findings from a Commission of Inquiry organized by the Tanzanian government following unrest around the country's election, at the State House in Dar es Salaam on April 23, 2026. © 2026 Ericky Boniphace/AFP via Getty Images The commission established to investigate violence during and after Tanzania’s October 2025 general elections submitted its findings to President Samia Suluhu Hassan on April 23, but it missed an opportunity to establish the full truth and lay the foundation…
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By Guest Contributor
“Human activity is rife with contradictions. The very same human being who creates art, who imagines futures, who develops technologies, is the one who uses them for their own destruction.”
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