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 ...

Secretive and ruthless, the traffickers controlling the kidney trade thrive on the desperation of the poor and the sick. Nancy Scheper-Hughes lays bare the ‘collateral damage’. The slide on the screen ...

As the cost of living crisis becomes entrenched, Nick Dowson examines the scene of the crime, tracks down the culprits and proposes a route to resolution. As the cost of living crisis becomes ...

An oil boom is reshaping Guyana’s future. Ben Jacob traces the country’s long history of colonial exploitation from Britain’s sugar factory to Exxon’s oil fields. Georgetown, the capital city of ...

Surprisingly, Rwanda regularly tops global gender equality tables. What can a traditional sexual practice reveal about gender norms? Alice McCool finds out ‘Sex is for the woman. This is because the ...