By Hayes Mabweazara, Senior Lecturer in Sociological & Cultural Studies (Media, Culture & Society), University of Glasgow
Bethia Pearson, Research Associate, ERC Global Remunicipalisation, University of Glasgow
A new book explores how media outlets are controlled by powerful forces, from governments to corporations, in Africa and Latin America.
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By Marian Selorm Sapah, Senior lecturer, University of Ghana
Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes the Earth at a very high velocity. This leaves an excavated circular hole on the Earth’s surface.
It is a basic geological process that has shaped the planets from their formation to today. It creates landscapes and surface materials across our solar system. The moon is covered with them, as are planets…
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By Hanri Mostert, SARChI Chair for Mineral Law in Africa, University of Cape Town
Tracy-Lynn Field, Professor of Environmental and Sustainability Law, University of the Witwatersrand
A US-brokered peace deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda binds the two African nations to a worrying arrangement: one where a country signs away its mineral resources to a superpower in return for opaque assurances of security.
The peace deal, signed in June 2025, aims to end three decades of conflict between…
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By Evelyn Namakula Mayanja, Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies, Carleton University
Is the U.S.-brokered peace agreement between Rwanda and the DRC a genuine path to sustainable peace, or a continuation of U.S. President Donald Trump’s coercive diplomacy?
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By Amnesty International
By Nkanyiso Mtolo Lesedi Molapisi, a young Motswana woman, faces possible execution in Bangladesh after she was convicted for drug trafficking. Her case has prompted Botswana’s government to act, with diplomatic representatives reportedly appealing for her life and calling for her rights to be protected. Yet this intervention is in stark contrast to its domestic reality, where […] The post Botswana can escape the hangman appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Bedul women making bread in one of the caves in Stooh al-Nabi Harun Mountain, Jordan. © 2025 Private (Beirut) – The Jordanian government is forcibly evicting the Bedul, a group of Bedouins from Petra, in clear violation of their economic, social, and cultural rights, including their right to housing, Human Rights Watch said today. Jordanian authorities should immediately reverse measures that have made residents’ homes unlivable and should conduct meaningful consultations with the Bedul to secure the community’s consent to any future relocations. To…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
In a compromise move the portrait of Mark Latham in Labor’s caucus room will have a disclaimer to recognise his life expulsion in 2017.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image © 2025 John Holmes for Human Rights Watch Detainees in Florida immigration detention centers are being subjected to inhuman conditions, including denial of medical care, overcrowding, and degrading treatment. At least two recent deaths may have been linked to medical neglect.These are not isolated incidents, but rather the result of a fundamentally broken detention system that is rife with serious abuses.The US government should prioritize community-based alternatives to detention, immediately address the abusive detention conditions, and provide independent oversight…
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By Yvonne Breitwieser-Faria, Lecturer in Criminal Law and International Law, Curtin University
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants against Taliban leaders it holds criminally responsible for the persecution of Afghan women and girls.
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By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese goes into the 48th parliament with a strong polling performance - but not as good as this time in 2022.
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