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Feature image of avocados via Canva Pro. In Samuel Beckett's “Waiting for Godot,” often described as the play in which nothing happens, the two main characters basically talk to each other under a leafless tree while awaiting the arrival of the mysterious Godot, who never shows up. The Caribbean in hurricane season should be so lucky. Instead, characters — because it often feels like an apocalyptic movie scene — huddle under shelter, too apprehensive to talk much as they await the arrival of the storm du jour, which almost always shows up. For these islands on the frontline of the climate cris...
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Photo of writer and educator Funso Aiyejina courtesy Bocas Lit Fest, used with permission. On July 1, news broke on local social media channels that the Nigeria-born writer and poet Funso Aiyejina, who made Trinidad and Tobago his home, had died in his sleep. He was 75 years old. Former Dean of Humanities and Education and Professor Emeritus at the University of the West Indies’ (UWI) St. Augustine campus, Aiyejina was well loved by students and colleagues alike, so his sudden passing was a shock to both academics and the regional literary community of which he was an integral part. Born in 19...
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A couple dancing Darién bullerengue. Screenshot from video “Bullerengue de darien…” from the Asi Baila Panama YouTube channel. Fair use. Women are singing, a couple dances, and drummers play the greatest African instrument. This is the highly traditional Panamian dance, the bullerengue. The dance that is the product of a painful past continues today, no longer with so much pain although the wounds are still there. The song cries and the drum comforts it. High tradition that is now pure pride, knowing that the blood you carry in your veins is sacred. To talk about bullerengue we must also talk ...
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Feature image via Canva Pro. At approximately 11:10 a.m. (UTC-4) on Monday, July 1, the eye of the record-breaking Hurricane Beryl made landfall on the tiny island of Carriacou in the Grenadines. An 11:15 a.m. update from the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, said that the storm had continued to intensify, with maximum sustained winds of 241.4 kilometres (150 miles) per hour. The hurricane is currently moving in a west-northwesterly direction at a pace of about 32 km (20 miles) per hour. Other locations in the Grenadines, including Union Island and Petite Martinique have been experi...
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Sipadol village in Bhaktapur district in Central Nepal just a year apart between 2022 to 2023. Photo by Amit Machamasi. Used with permission. This story was originally published by Nepali Times. An edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. Kathmandu Valley, once known for its bumper harvests of rice, has seen declining production because urban expansion is devouring once-fertile rice fields. There are still some terraces on the outskirts of the city that have rice fields, but even these are threatened by new settlements. The same is true of Pokhara ...
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Image of Clément Sianka, used with permission. On May 16, 2024, the Constitutional Council confirmed Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno’s election, thus sending the Republic of Chad into a new phase in its political history. In the wake of this election that marked the end of a military transition (2021-2024), Chadians expressed their desire for profound change in Chad, which has an estimated population of 18 million. Five weeks after his inauguration on May 23, 2024, Chadians have more significant expectations of their new president due to the country’s recent turbulent history of violence, protests, a...
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Image of Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno. Screenshot from theTv5monde YouTube channel. Fair use. On May 6, 2024, Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno was elected to a five-year term as the next president of Chad. His election marked the end of a transition period that began in April 2021, following the death of Idriss Déby Itno, president from 1990 to 2021. According to the provisional results that the National Election Management Agency (ANGE) announced on May 9, 2024, Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno received 61.03 percent of the vote. This was a sweeping victory over his main rivals. These included his prime minister...
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ABI imagery of Hurricane Beryl from NOAA's GOES-16 Satellite, June 28, 2024 via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain. Every year, from the beginning of June to the end of November, the Caribbean is on tenterhooks as the Atlantic hurricane season unfolds. The region, after all, has suffered devastating storms, which seem to have become more frequent and more intense as the climate crisis continues. This year, on Friday, June 28, an early-season weather system began to form in the southern Atlantic; two days later, Beryl had morphed into the most quickly organised Category 4 hurricane on record. An ...
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Image of the American military base in la base in Niger. Screenshot from theRadio France Internationale (RFI) YouTube channel. The repercussions of Niger’s coup d’état on July 26, 2023, continue to impact daily life in this country. Following the withdrawal of French troops in December 2023, it’s now time to withdraw US troops at the request of the country’s military rulers. On March 16, 2024, the ruling powers in Nigerien capital, Niamey, issued a statement criticizing the military cooperation agreement signed between their country and the United States in 2012. According to the Nigerien gove...
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Headquarters of the Guinean Broadcasting Corporation; screenshot from Medi1TVAfrique's YouTube channel. In the Republic of Guinea, the media continues to bear the heavy cost of freedom restrictions since the last coup d'état on September 5, 2021. On this date, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya ousted Alpha Condé, the former president of Guinea from 2010 to 2021, who had just started his third term, thereby breaching the constitution's two-term consecutive limit. Guinean authorities initially reassured Reporters Without Borders (RSF) that they would protect and promote press freedom following an RSF mis...
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