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How digital democracy is expanding in some regions while facing severe authoritarian pushback in others Originally published on Global Voices Researchers, authors, and Paradigm Initiative team members stand on stage during the official launch of the LONDA 2025 report...

How digital democracy is expanding in some regions while facing severe authoritarian pushback in others Originally published on Global Voices Advox Researchers, authors, and Paradigm Initiative team members stand on stage during the official launch of the LONDA 2025...

As talks for a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to end hostilities between Iran and the United States remain stalled, sporadic clashes persist in the Persian Gulf. Concurrently, Israel's destructive campaigns in Lebanon and a potential impasse in...

Portugal and Austria defeated Germany for seats on the powerful but deeply divided UN Security Council on Wednesday in a hotly contested race after intense campaigning. Germany's close relations with Israel and leading role in rallying support for Ukraine...

The 23rd edition of the FIFA World Cup is set to kick off in the US, Canada and Mexico in just over a week, with 48 teams competing in the biggest edition of the tournament yet, compared with...

By Nicolas J.S. DAVIES Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su On May 24, Iran rejected President Trump’s latest fake peace deal, confirming that he had misrepresented what Iran had agreed to and that...

Out of the USD 1.42 billion required for Somalia’s intervention plan, only USD 288 million was allocated Originally published on Global Voices A market in Somalia. Image by Jjumba Martin for Mercy Corps . As of May 2026,...

“It’s got no anything,” President Donald Trump said of Somalia in a recent xenophobic rant. “All they do is run around shooting each other.” As is true of so much with this administration, every accusation is also a confession. U.S....

Beginning last week, waves of protesters taking part in nation-wide strikes gathered on the streets of Nairobi to demand the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum reduce its state-controlled fuel price. What initially began as a labor initiative soon grew into violent...

The idea of Trump and Netanyahu was to destroy Iran as a force within the region, thereby forcing all countries in the Middle East to submit to their colonial plans. That clearly hasn’t happened. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of...

Mogadishu, Somalia - When Israel announced last December that it would recognise Somaliland , speculation was rife over which countries might follow. Several names circulated in Somali political circles, particularly states with close ties to the breakaway republic. Ethiopia...

For all the uncertainty about what will happen next on the military and diplomatic front in the Iran war, there is certainty about what has already happened on the economic front. And it is not good. The world has seen a...

By wilfully ignoring blatant US-Israeli acts of aggression, the EU is facilitating a global regime of impunity that contravenes its founding principles Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Marco Carnelos is a former...

Pakistan-brokered negotiations between the US and Iran took a significant step forward on Saturday, with President Donald Trump announcing that a deal to end the war - including reopening the Strait of Hormuz - had been "largely negotiated"...

Preface The first time I held a dying child in my arms, something in me changed forever. She was a little girl in Syria. The same age as my own daughter. A barrel bomb had fallen on her home. When she was brought...

“It’s got no anything,” President Donald Trump said of Somalia in a recent xenophobic rant. “All they do is run around shooting each other.” As is true of so much with this administration, every accusation is also a...

Ethiopia has accused Egypt of attempting to obstruct its efforts to secure access to the Red Sea amid ongoing tensions over regional influence and the long-running dispute surrounding the Nile dam . Speaking at a press conference on Thursday,...

The Islamic Society of San Diego Tragedy struck the Muslim community of San Diego in a murderous attack by a pair of armed teenagers who killed three people, including a security guard, before shooting themselves at a mosque on 18...

On 4 May, a barrage of drones struck Sudan’s international airport and several military installations in the capital of Khartoum. Sudan’s official army, known as the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), blamed Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)...

Video footage of bound Egyptians pleading for their release sent to relatives on Monday underscores the perilous fate of the crewmembers on board an oil tanker seized by Somali pirates off the coast of the Horn of Africa country at...

Somaliland could be on the verge of gaining international recognition from a second country, the United Arab Emirates , nearly five months after being recognised by Israel in a controversial decision that sent shockwaves across the international...

The harsh treatment of African immigrants in South Africa that has been making headlines over the past few weeks takes me back to April 2015 when similar xenophobic attacks on fellow Africans were flooding TV screens around the world. I...

What happens when you put a prefect, an emo, a girl who runs an underground tuck shop, and the most popular girl in school together in detention? This is no punchline joke, but the premise of the new BBC Comedy Short...

The breakaway state of Somaliland announced on Tuesday that it would be opening its embassy to Israel in the city of Jerusalem, joining only a handful of countries that have done so. "I am pleased to announce that the...

Internet access is often used as a tool to control the media during conflicts Originally published on Global Voices Advox Image from iMEdD, used with permission. This article by Elli Kostika, Katerina Voutsina, and Kelly Kiki is an excerpt...

British-Pakistani actor and playwright Asif Khan has always written to challenge mainstream perceptions of British Muslims. So, when he came across an article about three hijab-wearing sisters from Hull who skateboard, inspiration struck. "These three sisters, Amaya, Layna and...

The family of an Egyptian engineer who is stuck aboard an oil tanker that was hijacked earlier this month has appealed last week to the Foreign Ministry to intervene, according to two family members who spoke to Mada Masr. Eight...

Subscribe to our Lens on Sudan newsletter here . The fallout from Khartoum’s public escalation against Ethiopia over aerial attacks it said were launched from Ethiopian territory continued to unfold this week, with Addis Ababa taking retaliatory diplomatic measures and...

By Ann COUTLER Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Social media panic is barely disguised mainstream media self-defense. Social media has been blamed for transmitting social contagions, which is ironic because the main social contagion...

India's foreign ministry condemned an attack of an Indian-flagged ship off Oman as "unacceptable" on Thursday, with maritime security monitors reporting the cargo vessel had sunk. New Delhi did not give further details on the attack on Wednesday, and...

Schiacciata tra l’austerità dell’UE, la pesante penetrazione tedesca nel suo tessuto economico e l’ostilità turca a fasi alterne, Atene, consapevole di possedere l’invidiabile posizione geografica di porta balcanica dell’Europa (cosa che l’ha resa anche particolarmente indifesa di fronte ai flussi...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel appear to have emerged from the Iran war with a stronger relationship than ever. The UAE sustained the most Iranians attacks throughout that conflict and felt let down by the...

Jabiru Muhammed stands beside a tree planted as part of the Great Green Wall project in his village in Jigawa State. Credit: Promise Eze/IPS By Promise Eze GARABADU VILLAGE, Nigeria, May 12 2026 (IPS) In 2021, Gadeja Shehu and about a...

By Mohamed Omar MOGADISHU, Somalia , May 12 2026 (IPS) When war erupted in the Middle East in late February, the most visible consequences were playing out in the Persian Gulf, with smoke rising from Dubai’s Jebel Ali port and shipping...

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Felice Noelle Rodriguez KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 12 2026 (IPS) Transnational agribusinesses increasingly shape food policies worldwide. Claiming to best address recent food security concerns, they seek to profit more from innovations in food production,...