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Vultures scavenge for dead animals along a river-turned-sewer conduit in Kenya’s capital Nairobi. Its waters turn from clear to black as it traverses informal settlements and industrial hubs. The river and its tributaries cross Kibera, Kenya’s largest slum with close to 200,000 residents, and other informal settlements. It skirts dozens...

For years, the cryptocurrency economy has been rife with black market sales, theft, ransomware and money laundering – despite the strange fact that in that economy, practically every transaction is written into a blockchain’s permanent, unchangeable ledger. New evidence suggests that years of advancements in blockchain tracing and crackdowns on...

It was only a few days after I had arrived at a Ugandan refugee camp with my family in mid-2016 that I received the devastating news: Our house back home in South Sudan had been broken into, burgled, and destroyed. I had just endured a terrifying few weeks. Our hometown...

In a video recorded and posted online by Dr John Campbell – a retired nurse educator – the contradictions between the World Health Organization’s directives regarding the need for Covid-19 shots in Africa and the actual situation on the ground are astonishing. As of December 12, 2022, WHO was still...

“Nelson Mandela – I’d never heard the name before in my life,” a former prison guard to the South African icon recalls. Christo Brand casts his mind back to 1978, and his first night guarding one of the most influential people of the past century. He was just 19 years...

As noted by Shiva, the industrial revolution shifted our mindset to one where we thought of nature as dead. The result was ecological destruction and the fragmentation of society. The coming economic reset is basically part of an effort to further manipulate and shift our mental framework toward something wholly...

India recently eliminated all labour laws and currently, it is in the process of removing or amending the Farmers’ Rights Act, as well as environmental laws to ease access to food. This is what allows for the transfer of wealth to happen, social justice and anti-genetically modified organism (GMO) advocate,...

In this interview, social justice and anti-genetically modified organism (GMO) advocate Vandana Shiva, discusses her book, “Oneness vs the 1 Per Cent,” which she co-wrote with her son, in which she argues that the ultra-wealthy elite is responsible for a majority of the environmental, financial and health crises currently facing...

Elite interests complicate local peacebuilding efforts in South Sudan, with some opinion leaders arguing that the current approach treats the symptoms of violence rather than the institutional issues that creates conflicts. While communities may agree to halt a conflict, far off elites often have other ideas. “Whatever political rivalries there...

South Sudan’s fraught peace agreement and transition have been blamed for fuelling a series of conflicts that have divided communities and contributed to humanitarian indicators reaching levels unseen even during the 2013-2018 civil war. Yet efforts by local and international organisations to reduce such conflicts are often falling short, over...