Editors' Voices
Our daily podcast from our contributing editors based in Berlin, Kabul, London, Madrid and New York – reporting and commenting on globally relevant issues from a local perspective.
October 17th, 2018
The fake drug detector app
| in: | Humans, Economy, Technology |
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| by: | Bob Koigi |
How a Nigeria teenage girls fight fake drugs with detector app...
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October 16th, 2018
Love in the time of Mystic Messenger
| in: | Technology |
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| by: | Sofia Gallarate |
| partner: | Screen Shot |
For the last few decades, dating sims (also known as relationship simulation role-playing games, RS and RPG), a gaming subgenre.
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October 15th, 2018
A Bosnian enemy image
| in: | Humans |
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| by: | Katarina Panić |
The Bosnia's nationalists keep power by creating an enemy image against their own citizen.
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October 12th, 2018
On the run from war caught into a deadly drought
| in: | Humans, Nature |
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| by: | Shadi Khan Saif |
The crippling drought caused by climate change has forcefully displaced more people in Afghanistan than the fighting has.
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October 11th, 2018
What if an Algorithm Decided Whether You Could Stay in Canada or Not?
| in: | Humans, Technology |
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| partner: | NewsDeeply |
Rights advocates Petra Molnar and Samer Muscati pick apart experiments of AI in immigration that will be copied around the world.
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October 10th, 2018
Axis of evil: The illegal charcoal trade from Kenya to the Gulf States
| in: | Humans, Economy |
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| by: | Bob Koigi |
Behind a flourishing illegal charcoal business in Somalia is a complex network of an Islamist terrorist group, the Kenyan military and the Gulf States.
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October 09th, 2018
What happens when human provenance is used to determine immigration rights?
| in: | Technology |
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| partner: | Screen Shot |
Contemporary politics have seen a massive swing towards nationalism for better and, much more often, for worse.
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October 08th, 2018
A festival of misery
| in: | Arts |
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| by: | Gurmeet Singh |
Does a Human Rights Film Festival in a European capital make sense?
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October 01st, 2018
Fresh hope for cholera-prone Zimbabwe
| in: | Humans |
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| by: | Cyril Zenda |
Zimbabwe is currently in the throes of yet another cholera outbreak.
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September 26th, 2018
Africa’s youngest mobile money company CEO redefines financial inclusion
| in: | Humans, Economy, Technology |
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| by: | Bob Koigi |
The youngest and only female to run a mobile money business in Africa, Natalie Payida Jabangwe, uses the power of technology for financial inclusion.
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September 25th, 2018
Welcome to the luxurious world of clean air
| in: | Technology |
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| by: | Sofia Gallarate |
| partner: | Screen Shot |
As a vast majority of the world’s population is exposed to toxic air on a daily basis, an increasing number of people seek new ways to access clean air.
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September 24th, 2018
Radio Dabanga
| in: | Humans, Arts |
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| by: | Frank Odenthal |
A radio station in Amsterdam provides independent news for the people in Darfur.
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September 20th, 2018
A fight against the use of hunger as a tool of war
| in: | Humans, Nature, Economy |
|---|---|
| partner: | NewsDeeply |
The World Food Programme’s chief economist explains how a new resolution could make it easier to fight food insecurity driven by violence.
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September 19th, 2018
African startups embrace blockchain to clean land ownership mess
| in: | Humans, Economy, Technology |
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| by: | Bob Koigi |
As the blockchain wave sweeps Africa, new techpreneurs have moved beyond virtual currencies to find new uses of the technology.
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September 18th, 2018
What happens when human provenance is used to determine immigration rights?
| in: | Technology |
|---|---|
| partner: | Screen Shot |
What solid proof of nationality can any individual attempting to migrate really provide?
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September 17th, 2018
Ghana: Atiwa Forest for sale
| in: | Nature, Economy |
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| by: | Kwabena Adu Koranteng |
The Atiwa Forest, regarded as the biggest natural forest reserve in West Africa is facing its biggest threat by the government of Ghana.
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