November 02, 2023

Books and Bombs

A locally filmed, 10-part television series about Mogadishu high school students called “Arday” hit the Somali airwaves earlier this year, the Washington Post reported. A book fair, newly opened theaters, and art exhibitions have also cultivated a new Somali culture of arts and entertainment. This art...

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November 02, 2023

To the People

A law revoking a major mining contract with a Canadian mining company passed the first of two votes in Panama’s National Assembly Wednesday, a bill that would render a proposed referendum on the controversial contract unnecessary, Bloomberg reported. A legislative committee this week had approved putting...

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November 02, 2023

The Hardest Word

King Charles III acknowledged the atrocities committed by British colonial authorities against Kenyans during their fight for independence in the 1950s, but stopped short of issuing a full apology, CNN reported. The British monarch’s statements came during a four-day state visit to Kenya, which was marked...

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November 02, 2023

The Over-Step

Australia’s top court ruled Wednesday that the government cannot strip citizenship from a man convicted of terrorism, a verdict that dealt another blow to a law allowing government ministers to revoke dual nationals of their Australian citizenship because of extremism-related crimes, the Associated Press reported. The...

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November 02, 2023

New Faces

Brazil’s Amazon region is experiencing a severe drought that has drawn water levels down to unprecedented lows. Still, the drought has also unveiled a myriad of stone carvings of human faces and other figures dating back more than a thousand years, the Guardian reported. Archaeologists found the...

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