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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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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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Alondra Santiago. Screenshot from video “Canción de la semana | ¡Salve, oh patria!” (Song of the week | Hail, O Fatherland!) from her YouTube channel IngoEc. Fair use. “Hail, O Fatherland” is Ecuador's national anthem. In the early hours of June 25, 2024, Cuban journalist Alondra Santiago took to X (formerly Twitter), to share the the notification she received from the Ministry of External Affairs and Human Mobility. The Ministry revoked her visa which had allowed her to live in Ecuadorian territory for 19 years. The notification was signed by Vice Minister Alejandro Dávalos. The Foreign Minis...
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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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President of the Central African Republic Faustin-Archange Touadéra on the left and president of France Emmanuel Macron on the right. Screenshot from the France 24 YouTube channel. Fair use. In 2018, theCentral African Republic (CAR) welcomed the Wagner paramilitary group as part of a military collaboration agreement with Russia. This agreement angered France, which saw its interests threatened and its influence challenged, thus signaling the start of a diplomatic crisis between Bangui, the Central African Republic capital, and Paris. At that time, France threatened to end all cooperation with...
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Image of the artist Mönza, taken from his song “Ça suffit” (“That's enough”). Screenshot from the video on the artist's YouTube channel. In the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, musical production is closely tied to the griots who jealously guard their art. Despite this conservative stance, artists venturing into different musical genres and fusing diverse rhythms are enriching the country's musical landscape. Home to more than 4.9 million people and nestled between the Sahara Desert and the Atlantic Ocean, Mauritania boasts a rich cultural heritage. Demographically, around 20 ethnic groups inha...
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Illustration of candidate Trump on the left with a tattoo of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and “I love Milei,” in reference to the Argentine president, and candidate Biden on the right with a tattoo of his campaign logo “Latinos con Biden.” Image from CONNECTAS, used with permission. Story written by Leonardo Olivafor CONNECTAS. Edited and republished on Global Voices according to a media agreement. “In Trump’s four-year term we had great international politics, no wars, unemployment or inflation, and we were self-sufficient in oil,” said Argentinian dentist Ecio Pozzi, 47, who emigrated t...
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Montage of an image of Claudia Sheinbaum with the colors of the Mexican flag. Photo from Wikipedia licensed under CC BY 2.0. On Sunday, June 2, Mexico elected Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo as the first woman president of Mexico with a coalition of leftist parties following the political line of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). The Fourth Transformation (4T) project built AMLO's image — so his successor must shine on her own merits. What was it that Claudia Sheinbaum did to escape the shadow of the man who marked a before and after in Mexican politics? A greener capitalIn 2018, Claudia S...
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Mauritanian flags. Screenshot of theAfrica24 YouTube channel In the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, seven candidates, including the country’s current president, Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, will face each other in the first round of presidential elections on June 29, 2024. Ghazouani has been in power since August 2019. The Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) announced the election date. Voters had until May 29, 2024, to register on the electoral roll. Out of a population of over 4 million, the number of voters at the 2019 presidential elections, which led to Mohamed Ould Ghazouani’s fi...
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