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Maloraneng village. Photo provided by The Colonist Report, used with permission. For eight months, Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi, Sechaba Mokhethi, and Cindy Sipula investigated years of outcry from residents living near a UK diamond mining company. Their investigation report was originally published by The Colonist Report, and a shorter version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement.** Gem Diamonds Limited, a diamond mining company based in the United Kingdom that has won awards for improving local communities’ access to clean water, has been accused of polluting dri...
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The Gouda Wind Farm in Gouda in the Western Cape of South Africa. Image via Wikipedia license CC BY-SA 4.0 When touring some East African countries (EAC), like Burundi, Uganda, South Sudan, Somalia, and others, it is common to find village schools, town roads, hospitals, homes, and many more places without electricity. Students must revise their lessons by torchlight, some hospitals and clinics struggle to preserve temperature-sensitive medicines, including vaccines, and citizens navigate daily life without reliable electricity. This is a common issue across East Africa, where insufficient ele...
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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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The ceremony of signing the agreement on the joint construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway in Beijing, China. Photo from the website of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan. Fair use. This article was written by Andrew Gundal for Vlast.kz and published on June 21, 2024. An edited version is published on Global Voices under a media partnership agreement. The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan (CKU) railway plans are back on track. On June 6, representatives from the three countries signed off on the project in Beijing, setting in motion a key transportation project that has been in t...
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English translation of the text in the image: ‘I won't leave Mohna's company.’ Illustration by the author, used with permission. When I was around four years old, my family moved from our village in Bihar to a town in Jharkhand in eastern India. Growing up, whenever I struggled with my studies, my parents would mention the possibility of returning to the village. This prospect, while meant to motivate me, also opened my eyes to the limitations faced by women there. I witnessed underage marriages), restricted mobility for women, and irregular access to basic resources like electricity and water...
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Ukraine has been under a full-scale armed attack by Russian military forces since February 2022. In the face of these dire circumstances, it is no secret that people need food, and all hands must be on deck when they face man-made and natural disasters. In this context, it would be easy to justify that millions of Euros and U.S. dollars are poured into a factory farming project with the potential to feed large swaths of the population. Or would it? This is certainly the line of argument that is being used by development banks such as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD),...
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The image is a courtesy of Laís Martins. For years, Chinese solar panels were king in Brazil. In 2022, around 99 percent of all photovoltaic panels purchased in Brazil were imported from China, which is the leading global manufacturer of solar energy equipment. Only 1 percent was produced locally. Now, thanks to a government decision to scrap a tax exemption that reduced the cost of importing solar energy equipment that had been ongoing since 2020, this landscape could start changing. The explanation for this wide-ranging adoption of Chinese products is multifaceted. It is partly due to tax re...
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Yasuní National Park, Ecuador. 2015. Photo by Matt Hewit. License CC BY 2.0. Last August, Ecuadorians made history by voting to permanently keep over 700 million barrels of crude oil in the ground beneath one of the most biodiverse areas on Earth. This made Ecuador the first country in the world to halt oil exploitation through a referendum. Ayer Ecuador aprobó dejar bajo tierra para siempre un yacimiento de petróleo que se ubicaba justo en una de las áreas más biodiversas #Yusuní ¿Por qué este resultado? Acá el Preámbulo de su constituciónhttps://t.co/OqvDZlzRVZ pic.twitter.com/ozz2SRQi2R — H...
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A screenshot from GuanXi Taiwan YouTube channel. In Taiwan, the African continent remains largely invisible culturally, economically, and politically — so when Africa Day is marked in Taipei on May 25 each year, it offers a rare occasion for African cultures to be celebrated, albeit just for one day. Photo from an exhibition at Taipei's National Center of Photography and Images, showing an African trainee and and Taiwanese trainer in the 1960s in Taiwan. Photo by Filip Noubel, used with permission. Today, Taiwan maintains full diplomatic relations only with thekingdom of Eswatini on the Africa...
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Feature image designed using Canva Pro elements. By Matt Bishop, Tumasie Blair, Simona Marinescu, and Emily Wilkinson On May 27, the governments of the small island developing states known collectively as SIDS and their international partners will meet in Antigua and Barbuda. The goal of the meeting is to agree on the fourth decennial UN programme of action dedicated to their “special case for sustainable development,” under the tagline “charting the course toward resilient prosperity.” Known as “SIDS4” to insiders, the summit communiqué will agree on a framework for the Antigua and Barbuda Ag...
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