By Mario Schmidt, Associate Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Miriam Maina, Research Associate (African Cities), University of Manchester
Within sight of Kenya’s main international airport in Nairobi’s east, Pipeline residential estate stands out like a sore thumb. Composed almost entirely of tightly packed high-rise tenement flats, the estate has been described by the media as an urban planning nightmare. They point to its garbage problem, its waterlogged and frequently impassable streets, and the effect of dense living conditions on children’s health.
Pipeline’s…
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By Mary Kinney, Senior Lecturer with the Global Surgery Division, University of Cape Town
Nearly one million babies are stillborn in Africa every year. Behind every stillbirth is a mother, a family and a story left untold. Most of these are preventable, many unrecorded, and too often invisible. Each number hides a moment of heartbreak, and every uncounted loss represents a missed opportunity to learn and to act.
As a public health researcher specialising in maternal and newborn health, I have spent the past two decades working on strengthening health systems…
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By Jacqueline Peel, Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
Expectations were extremely low ahead of this year’s UN climate talks. Remarkably, organisers in Brazil managed to secure real progress at COP30.
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Saturday, November 22, 2025
Scolded for wanting to go to school as a girl and dismissed or ignored as an adult, Awrelia from Wau in South Sudan has learnt to advocate for herself, her children and for the women in her community.
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By Amnesty International
Leaders at COP30 in Brazil failed to agree to place people over profits as a lack of unity, accountability and transparency chipped away at delivering the urgent and effective climate action needed, though there were some bright spots, Amnesty International said today at the end of the annual UN climate summit. The headliner COP30 ‘Global […] The post COP30: Rights trampled, yet people power demonstrates that humanity will win appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Anastasia Pestova
When people disappear, an entire world disappears with them — the smoke in their tents, the names of their rivers, their languages, and their songs.
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By Lester Munson, Non-Resident Fellow, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
Julie Inman Grant has been asked to testify to Congress. It’s a sign of an increasing US preoccupation with online censorship.
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By James Dyke, Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Ten years ago the world’s leaders placed a historic bet. The 2015 Paris agreement aimed to put humanity on a path to avert dangerous climate change. A decade on, with the latest climate conference ending in Belém, Brazil, without decisive action, we can definitively say humanity has lost this bet.
Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into “overshoot”…
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By Leocadia Bongben
If such development continues unchecked, Cameroon is at risk of further damaging its protected marine ecosystems and sabotaging its long-term sustainability and conservation goals.
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By Simon Goodman, Associate professor, De Montfort University
Rahul Sambaraju, Lecturer, psychology, University of Edinburgh
Keir Starmer has called on Nigel Farage to address allegations of racism in Reform UK, and antisemitic and xenophobic comments and bullying allegedly made by Farage while he was at school. Farage has denied the accusations.
A few weeks before the allegations about Farage emerged, Reform MP Sarah Pochin was accused of racism after saying that it “drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people, full of Asian people”. Farage said that while Pochin’s comments…
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