By Sebastian van Baalen, Associate Senior Lecturer, Uppsala University
Jesper Bjarnesen, Senior researcher, The Nordic Africa Institute
Regardless of the legal reasoning and outcomes, President Alassane Ouattara’s fourth-term bid is a loss for democracy in Côte d'Ivoire.
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By John Mukum Mbaku, Professor, Weber State University
Raila Amolo Odinga, who died on 15 October 2025, aged 80, ran five times for the Kenyan presidency but didn’t win. Yet he became a statesman of enormous influence, whose political and humanitarian achievements surpassed those of many African heads of state. He will be remembered as one of the most important figures in the struggle for multiparty…
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By Lee Ann Rawlins Williams, Clinical Assistant Professor of Education, Health and Behavior Studies, University of North Dakota
Faculty members say they are worried about job security but also whether they should be introducing certain topics, like gender, in their class or with colleagues.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image European Union flags wave in the wind as pedestrians walk by EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File (Brussels, October 22, 2025) – Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will pay a high-level visit to Brussels on October 24, 2025, to sign a partnership deal with the EU setting out a new stage of closer relations and cooperation.While the new EU-Uzbekistan Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement specifies respect for democratic principles and human rights and fundamental freedoms as an “essential element”…
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By JC Niala, Head of Research, Teaching and Collections, History of Science Museum, University of Oxford
Johanna Zetterström-Sharp, Associate Professor in Heritage and Museum Studies, UCL
Milk is one of the most familiar things in the world – comforting, wholesome, ordinary. But beneath this common perception lies something far more complicated.
Examining the UK and Kenya, our project Milking It! explores the deep cultural, historical and emotional attachments to milk, and how these collide with the realities of industrialised production, environmental pressure and its colonial past.
We’ve spoken with dairy farmers caught between economic survival and public expectation, traced milk’s heritage…
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By Kinda Alsamara, Lecturer in the School of Languages and Cultures, The University of Queensland
Eleanor Gordon, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Monash University
Elliot Dolan-Evans, Lecturer in Law, Monash University
Women have won just six seats so far in the new 210-member parliament. This is not surprising considering how few were permitted to vote or stand as candidates.
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By Dennis Altman, Vice Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University
The British royals are no strangers to scandals - and they are likely to be able to manage this one.
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By Andrew Blakers, Professor of Engineering, Australian National University
Harry Armstrong-Thawley, Research Officer, Australian National University
Timothy Weber, Research Officer, School of Engineering, Australian National University
When Snowy 2.0 is in the news, it’s usually about money. The cost of the huge project has gone well beyond the initial A$6 billion estimate and will now cost more than $12 billion.
But cost overruns don’t affect the real value of this pumped hydro project. When it comes online – likely in 2028 – Snowy 2.0 will bring something fundamentally new to the Australian electricity system: energy storage at a scale far beyond anything else.
It will…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The Myanmar refugee activist Thuzar Maung with her husband, Saw Than Tin Win, who were abducted along with her three children from their home in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on July 4, 2023. © 2023 private (Bangkok) – The Malaysian government should press Myanmar’s junta for the immediate release of a refugee family abducted from Kuala Lumpur in July 2023, Human Rights Watch said today. More than two years after her disappearance, Myanmar junta authorities announced on October 17, 2025, that they were detaining Thuzar Maung, a Myanmar pro-democracy activist,…
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By Daria Dergacheva
The prosecution was triggered by viral videos of Stoptime’s performances on Nevsky Prospect, where the musicians played songs by artists labeled as “foreign agents”: Monetochka, Noize MC, Zemfira, and Pornofilmy.
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