African nationals remain outsiders in SA
South Africa is said to have overcome the peak in covid-19 cases, while many African nationals will take much longer to recover from the lockdown.
Political violence
Calls for release of report on Policing and Crowd Management get louder
Two years after the report by the Panel of Experts on Policing and Crowd Management was completed, it has yet to be released to the public.
Zim journalists petition President Mnangagwa
Media freedom is under threat in Zimbabwe under cover of lockdown regulations to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
ITUC objects to ZANU PF calling ZCTU a terrorist organisation
Ongoing human rights abuses in the country have reminded Zimbabweans that the regime did not change when Mugabe was ousted in 2017.
Emptied of tourists, Venice is full of ideas. But is the solidarity economy enough to sustain the city?
“When we closed the bookstore, we also removed the No Grandi Navi flag from the window, as a sign of appeasement,” the owner of the MarcoPolo bookshop […]
In the fallout from COVID-19, Latin America risks losing its remittance lifeline
Under normal circumstances, Isaac Cubillan would have stayed home, a place he describes as having everything: beaches, beautiful landscapes and delicious food. But, one of […]
Who has been hit hardest by South Africa’s lockdown? We found some answers
In trying to limit the spread of COVID-19, policymakers globally have the difficult task of balancing the positive health effects of lockdowns against their economic […]
How Egypt silences popular and dissident music
For Faris Hemida, a well-known singer of Egypt’s wildly popular musical style known as mahraganat (‘festivals’ in Arabic), 16 February 2020 did not go well. […]
What about the kids? COVID-19 also puts children’s rights at risk
When the editors of Nature magazine first used the term ‘coronavirus’ in 1968, they probably never, not even in their wildest dreams, imagined that the concept would become […]
With the world in lockdown, for some, being at home is as dangerous as being outside
With a third of the world’s population under some form of government-mandated lockdown during recent months, hundreds of millions of people have been cooped up at home […]
Fuelled by social media, in India Muslims are “a convenient scapegoat” for the coronavirus
At the end of March this year, a new trending hashtag emerged on Twitter. #CoronaJihad, which blames Muslims for the spread of COVID-19 in India, […]
In Tunisia, Black Africans face “the harshest exploitation”
Jérémie*, an Ivorian in his early thirties who arrived in Tunisia in early 2016, is reluctant to speak out. He says he suffered reprisals after […]
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