By Karin Kristensson Fighters and battles and bombs and destroyed buildings. This is how the Syrian conflict is depicted, Staffan de Mistura told me when we
By William Bame In 2011, during the Arab Spring, protests calling for the removal of Syrian President Assad escalated into an armed conflict. This armed conflict,
By Charlotte Renström Another episode in the Brexit soap opera: a new deal negotiated, another one outvoted. Relentlessly repeating itself, the procedure has become awkwardly predictable.
By Anja Holgersson “You were breastfed left and right, high and low”, my mum would tell me. This might not sound particularly unusual, however in my
By Ana Ekelund Somalia is home to an unknown amount of people. Population numbers that are presented in various textbooks and encyclopedias are in fact qualified
By David Edberg Landeström As China celebrated 70 years of communist rule, people – both young and old – flogged to the streets of Beijing to
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By Aishwarya Siva Modern day media seems to focus exclusively on negative stories and it isn’t any different for news about Africa, the land that is
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali for his efforts to achieve
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