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April 10, 2023

Waiting … and Waiting

Pro-democracy protesters took to the streets across Sudan this week to protest the postponement of the country’s transition to a civilian government, a delay that came as Sudan marked the anniversary of the 2019 demonstrations that ousted longtime autocrat Omar al Bashir, Reuters reported. Demonstrators marched...

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April 07, 2023

No Poaching

Zimbabwe is planning to ban the recruitment of its health workers by other countries, a move aimed at tackling a shortage of personnel as the southern African nation experiences a worsening economic situation, Africanews reported Thursday. Vice President Constantino Chiwenga announced the bill this week, saying...

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April 05, 2023

Quiet, Please

Madagascar’s government ordered a ban on public protests this week, a move critics described as the latest effort by authorities to stifle dissent ahead of the presidential elections this coming November, Al Jazeera reported. Officials announced that no political protests would be allowed in public but...

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April 05, 2023

Prima l’Italia

Italian lawmakers are creating a bill that would ban the sale of lab-grown meat and other synthetic foods in the country, a proposal that supporters say aims to protect Italy’s culinary heritage, Forbes reported. The proposed legislation came after farming lobby groups collected half a million...

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April 04, 2023

Rethinking Death

Malaysia’s lower house of parliament on Monday voted to abolish the mandatory death penalty for certain offenses, including drug-related crimes, a move that bucks regional trends as the country’s neighbors see a rise in public executions, Al Jazeera reported. The new amendments would apply to 34...

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April 03, 2023

No Quarter

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis demonstrated across the country over the weekend, the latest unrest targeting Israel’s conservative government’s plan to overhaul the judiciary and the first protests since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paused the bill last week, the Washington Post reported. Protests took place in...

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April 03, 2023

Just A Minute

Italy’s data protection watchdog issued a temporary ban on the popular artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT over alleged privacy violations, the first Western nation to do so, Euronews reported. Over the weekend, the Italian National Authority for Personal Data Protection said the chatbot had experienced a data...

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March 31, 2023

Trapped

Mexican authorities launched an investigation into the fire that killed at least 39 migrants inside an immigrant detention center near the US border Monday, an incident that has prompted criticism over the government’s immigration policies, the Guardian reported Thursday. To date, Mexican officials said they had...

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March 31, 2023

Unholy Doctrines

Under pressure from Indigenous groups, the Vatican formally repudiated the colonial-era “Doctrine of Discovery,” the edict backed by 15th-century papal decrees that justified the seizure of lands in Africa and the Americas by European colonialists, the Associated Press reported Thursday. The Holy See announced that the...

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