On the hospital grounds, there is a residential facility for people with intellectual disabilities. The AfD’s election manifesto reflects a deep rejection of the inclusion of people with disabilities. For example, it explicitly calls for an end to inclusive education, with children with disabilities to be taught in separate special schools rather than alongside children without disabilities. Our residents ...

Today, the 41-year-old said that those bountiful days are long gone. But he refuses to abandon his net and continues to wade into the shallows near Baga to bring home whatever catch he can.

In a phone call with FairPlanet, Ibrahim Mustapha Sulumbe, a professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Maiduguri, said that up to 15 million people across Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, and Chad depend on Lake Chad for farming, fishing, and livestock. In this ecosystem, ...

It was during the Libyan uprising of 2011, at a meeting in Tripoli with a group of rebels, that British journalist and historian Justin Marozzi overheard one of the men turn to his Black friend and say: ‘Hey, slave. Go get me coffee.’ The other rebels laughed. Their friend did not. What struck Marozzi in that moment — and what would eventually reshape his career — was that the word ‘slave’ was still in everyday use across North Africa and the Middle East, entirely outside its historical context.

That encounter set Marozzi on a journey spanning continents and centuries, tracing the history of slavery across the Middle East and the wider Muslim world. ...

That is what my father told me a few days after the earthquake, when authorities finally allowed him to see what remained of his building. He had lived there for twenty years. The building had collapsed, and none of our neighbors survived.

But he wasn’t talking only about concrete. He was talking about a community, familiar faces and decades of shared lives buried beneath the rubble.

Like him, thousands lost homes, jobs and family members. The first days blurred into rescue efforts, government response and the constant search for news of those still missing.

And then, slowly, the rescuers left, the cameras moved on, and the emergency became everyday life. 

Three months ago, at 6:04 p.m., the lives of millions of Venezuelans changed forever.

On ...

But she had no money to start a business.

A few weeks later, her sister Hajiya Fatima, who has a connection with the Mata Zalla Cooperative Society — a Kano-based women’s collective which launched a women-only electric tricycle transport system where women can travel safely while also earning a livelihood in an industry historically dominated by men — reached out to her with the ‘She-Ride’ (the name ...

This development comes nine weeks after members of anti-immigrant groups, the March and March movement and the Abahambe movement, held placards during a protest on 28 April, calling on the government to take action against illegal immigration in South Africa.

The protesters say illegal immigration is largely responsible for crime, housing shortages, and the unemployment rate which rose to 32.7% in the first quarter of 2026 from 31.4% in the last quarter of 2025.

Anti-immigration sentiments have triggered xenophobic attacks in ...

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The wind blows strongly across the quiet village of Bogorame. It is four in the afternoon, yet little activity can be seen among residents of the hamlet located along the coast of Demak Bay, Central Java – about ...

In Durban, South Africa’s third largest city, Sharon* and her family were threatened with being set alight if they did not return to their home country, Zimbabwe. The increased pressure from the protesters forced the Zimbabwean family to abandon their carpentry workshop and return home after 10 years in South Africa.

‘We just had to leave behind most of our tools and the life we were building for ourselves,’ she told FairPlanet in a WhatsApp chat. ‘The trauma of seeing our fellow Africans being attacked simply because we ...

Beyond military gains and strategic calculations, the reality of war unfolds in the everyday lives of Ukrainians across the country. The frontline regions are of course in the direct crosshairs of ground battles and the fight over territory, leading to ...

In the remote desert of southeast Libya, a sprawling network of smuggling routes, military camps and weapons transfers is helping sustain Sudan’s brutal war. A recent Lighthouse Reports investigation traced that network back to a familiar regional power – the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Ahmed, an anonymous Rapid Support ...

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‘The worst thing that happens to Syrians is they become numbers,’ Bilal Abboud, a Syrian survivors’ rights advocate, told FairPlanet in a video call. 

Abboud considers himself a lucky person. He was living in Al-Qusayr, one of the last neighbourhoods of Deir-ez-Zor held by government forces when it was besieged by Islamic State (ISIS). In 2015, his family fled to Damascus. Two years later, his life changed when a mortar shell exploded while he was returning home ...

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According to an analysis by the non-profit organisation Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, Europe’s projected grain harvest was reduced by a net nine million tonnes during the late-June heatwave, representing an estimated loss of around EUR 1.8 billion. The research institute Prognos calculated that the economic cost of the two-week heatwave in Germany alone was EUR 6.3 billion, largely due to lost productivity. 

Furthermore, the European mortality monitoring system ...

The culmination of words outside my hut felt like stones. One of the voices was from a young boy no older than twelve. That hurt the most.

‘Give me back my yam!’

The yelling and shouting continued until they were tired and stopped. The silence arrived with a sense of comfort – temporary but welcome. I stared at the masquerade costume passed down by my father and before then my grandfather, and considered throwing it into the river. This costume held beautiful memories in each thread but had become heavier over the years. It lay in my hands. The indigo-dyed linen with red and orange tassels across it. There were small eye and nose areas cut out so I could see and breathe. Without wearing the garment, it looked alive, a bestial and majestic creature. I sat ...

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In the same interview, Scontrino described witnessing a great deal underwater: gorgonian forests thinning during marine heatwaves, seabeds shifting in colour and composition, invasive species filling the gaps. But one threat remains invisible to most: below the surface of the Mediterranean, kilometres of abandoned fishing nets are still hunting on their own –  trapping, killing, degrading habitats already under ...

The Gomoras are at the centre of Netflix’s new TV series, ‘The Polygamist’, released in June to overwhelming success of more than 27 million views globally. ‘I’ll own being the most hated man on Netflix until they give me another show,’ joked South African actor S’dumo Mtshali, who portrays Jonasi Gomora, in an inte ...

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