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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...

Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers, including Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna, lobbied Twitter and other social media platforms to set moderation rules that would flag purported Covid-19-related “misinformation,” according to Lee Fang, who reported on the latest “Twitter Files.” Published January 16 on Twitter and in The Intercept by investigative journalist Lee Fang,...

At the end of October 2022, the Somali capital Mogadishu suffered another suicide bomb attack, which killed 121 people and injured more than 300. According to United Nations sources, in 2022 alone, 613 civilians died and 948 were wounded in attacks by the Islamist al-Shabaab terrorist group. Last year’s death...

On July 5, Ghanaian fisherman Essien went missing from the Meng Xin 15 trawler off Accra coast. Is brother James says that Essien had dinner with the rest of the crew of the Chinese vessel before they headed back to their cubicle to sleep. The next morning, he was nowhere...