I wrote about Chinese oppression in a South African paper. Hours later, they canceled my column. Foreign Policy, Opinion, BY AZAD ESSA | SEPTEMBER...
ON THE MEDIA | China Is Buying African Media’s Silence
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Issues and Analysis
ON THE MEDIA | NYT Opinion, Myanmar’s Assault on a Truthful Press
When Myanmar’s government defends the harsh sentence given to two courageous reporters who exposed mass murder, it breaks a fundamental promise of...
ON IMMIGRANTS & REFUGEES | Deaf, disabled Detroit immigrant in US for 34 years faces deportation
Francis Anwana, 48, was born in Nigeria and moved to the U.S. when he was 13 to attend a school for the deaf. Anwana lives in Detroit at an adult...
ON IMMIGRATS & REFUGEES | Migrants as Messengers Explain the Dangers of Irregular Migration
By IPS World Desk, Migrants as Messengers is a peer-to-peer messaging campaign by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) where returning...
Refugee resettlement hits 10-year low
Trump slashes refugee resettlement, other countries don’t raise quotas Some 50,000 to 60,000 people fleeing war and persecution will start a new...
ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | Revisiting privatization’s claims
Advocates made exaggerated claims that privatization would reduce governments’ fiscal problems while ensuring more efficient, productive and...
ON MIGRATION | At Libya’s unchecked southern borders, a key to easing the migration crisis
Instead of just evacuating and repatriating migrants, Libyans ask, what about preventing their arrival in the first place? Source: At Libya’s...
ON THE MEDIA | ETHIOPIA IS UNSHACKLING THE MEDIA, BUT TRUE INDEPENDENCE WILL DEPEND ON REFORMS
By Henok Fente Just a few months ago, Ethiopia was one of the countries with the highest number of imprisoned and exiled journalists. Now, a new...
ON IMMIGRANTS & REFUGEES | How do you find one refugee in a million?
From Bangladesh’s vast camps to Myanmar’s prisons, volunteer sleuths search for clues on the missing, the imprisoned, and the dead Source: How do...
ON THE MEDIA | Jailed reporters’ wives ‘devastated’ by Aung San Suu Kyi response
The wives of two Reuters journalists found guilty of violating Myanmar’s official secrets act and jailed for seven years have publicly lamented Aung...
MIGRATION & ON THE MEDIA | Facebook Responds to Rohingya Genocide
With over 25,000 dead and 700,000 fleeing, the conflict in Myanmar is reaching a new wave of crimes against the Rohingya Muslims. The U.N. recently...
ON THE MEDIA | Life in Eritrea’s News Desert
What the country teaches the world about the importance of an independent press. Source: Life in Eritrea’s News Desert