In an increasingly hostile environment, activism and coalition-building across the region persists. As the US under Trump ...
Novelist Rémy Ngamije reflects on the role of human creativity in a world embracing generative AI. In her first letter, ...
Addis is a city at a crossroads. A massive redevelopment project is reshaping Ethiopia’s capital into what Prime Minister ...
Indonesia is currently overseeing the world’s biggest ever deforestation project in West Papua, while new research shows the extent of the UK’s involvement in an occupation that has been described as ...
Long before today’s boom, synthetic language was already in circulation. In 1966 MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum created the ...
Adio-Adet Dinika explores the hidden stories of the workers who prop up artificial ‘intelligence’, and their efforts at organized resistance.
In the absence of facts and trusted sources of information, the AI-generated images and rhetoric of dictators circulate freely on a web increasingly breaking under the weight of slop. Only first-hand ...
A series of huge oil extraction projects have been blocked by campaigners in South Africa. How did they do it and what comes next? Over the last five years, $1.6 billion worth of oil and gas projects ...
Who grows our food? This seemingly simple question is getting harder to answer in a world where our food crosses borders to get to our plate. The contribution of small and industrial-scale farming to ...
The deadliest police killings in Rio de Janeiro’s history raise questions about the government’s war on gangs, writes Leonardo Sakamoto. A police operation against one of ­B­­razil­’s largest criminal ...