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[The Conversation Africa] African film festivals were once quite rare, but in the past decades they’ve been growing in the continent and mushrooming around the world. A recent open access book explores

[The Conversation Africa] The highway between Lagos and Ibadan was built in 1978 at the height of Nigeria’s oil boom. Lagos is the country’s largest city, with an estimated population of over

[The Conversation Africa] As a child growing up in the Ndumo Game Reserve on the South Africa-Mozambique border, Simon Pooley read an animal encyclopaedia given to his family by a visiting scientist.

[Dabanga] El Obeid / Sheikan Locality / Heiban Locality — More than 200,000 people have been displaced across Sudan’s Kordofan region since the end of 2025 as fighting between the Sudanese Armed

[IPS] United Nations — World Humanitarian Day celebrates humanitarian workers and the life-saving services they provide under the most complex and often dangerous conditions.

[CJID] August 20, 2026 — The Coalition for Whistleblower Protection and Press Freedom (CWPPF) strongly condemns the violent physical assault, harassment, unlawful seizure, and destruction of working tools belonging to Sunday Michael

Greenock wants to attract immigrants to settle in the town and reverse its declining population.

With Iran exerting influence on the Strait of Hormuz, Houthi attacks on a nearby Red Sea passageway assume even greater importance for the world economy.

Thirty “pioneer families” have arrived on a wave of nationalism driven by Israel’s government, but the rapid change has left nearby Palestinian residents fearful.

There is a continuing row over whether it matters if such a broad spectrum of people are defined as having autism