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Image by Noopura Liyanage via Groundviews, used with permission. This article by Noopura Liyanage was originally published on Groundviews, an award-winning citizen media website from Sri Lanka. An edited version is published here as part of a content-sharing agreement. Our journey began with a seven-hour drive from Colombo. As we travelled, the scenery transformed from verdant mountains to emerald plains bordering the Uva province, located in southeast Sri Lanka. We reached the solitary stretch between Padiyathalawa town and Bibile town, dotted with unfinished houses standing far apart. Here, ...
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UK-born, Jamaica-based educator, writer and theatre director Brian Heap. Photo previously supplied by Heap; used with permission. On March 24, England-born educator and stalwart of Jamaican theatre Brian Heap died at the age of 73. The Jamaica Gleaner newspaper reported that he “had been quietly ailing since September last year [and] passed away while in hospice care.” Heap is being mourned by many in Jamaica’s theatre world and beyond. In 2020, he was selected as the Caribbean regional winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his powerful story of grief and family entitled...
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Screenshot ofYouTube video of the song “Can I Come With You” from Arseniy's YouTube channel . Fair use. Holod Magazine published an article about viral TikTok song that accompanies videos about homeless animals, a song that was initially about emigration from Belarus. A translated and edited version is republished by Global Voices/ The song “Can I Come with You” has gone viral on Russian language TikTok: users of the social network are sharing stories about homeless animals they decided to take in from the streets. The author of the song is Belarusian Arseniy Kislyak (AP$ENT), and his track is...
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Illustration by Daniyar Mussirov. Used with permission. This article was written by Almas Kaisar and Nazerke Kurmangazinova for Vlast.kz. An edited version is published on Global Voices under a media partnership agreement. Ethnic Karakalpaks living in Kazakhstan have become the target of detentions and pressure after the July 2022 protests in Nukus, the capital of the autonomous region of Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan’s northeast. Uzbekistan’s government demanded that activists detained in Kazakhstan be extradited, after accusing them of “calling for mass riots” and “attacks against the constit...
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Portrait of Nétonon Noël Ndjékéry. Photo by Joao Cardoso, used with permission. A pivot country located in the Sahel between North Africa and Central Africa, Chad is rarely discussed in the media as a literary territory. To remedy this gap, Global Voices interviewed the author Nétonon Noël Ndjékéry, one of the most visible representatives of French-speaking Chadian literature. Born in Moundou in southern Chad, Ndjékéry lives in Switzerland where he has devoted himself entirely to writing since April 2021?. To this day, he has published nine books, the two last being “Il n’y a pas d’arc-en-ciel...
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Image by Unesco. Open License. This article was written by Gesa Steeger of CORRECTIV, edited by Romina Cáceres and published in El Surtidor on September 26, 2023. An edited version is republished by Global Voices under a media partnership agreement. A joint investigation by El Surtidor, a Paraguayan digital media outlet, and CORRECTIV, an independent media outlet from Germany, shows how Deutsche Investitions und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (DEG), a subsidiary of a public institution, and the German Development Bank (KfW) ) invested EUR 25 million in the Paraguayan Agricultural Corporation (PAYCO)...
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Aurat March organizers mobilizing the crowd on International Women’s Day outside National Press Club, Islamabad. Image by Ramna Saeed. Used with permission. On International Women’s Day, March 8, women in major cities across Pakistan, including Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi and Multan, took to the streets for the seventh consecutive year to advocate for gender equality, justice, and safety against patriarchal norms. Aurat March is a feminist collective that unites to speak out against discrimination and inequality. The march was attended by hundreds of women, girls, transgender people, and male a...
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Vladimir Putin has been in power for over 25 years. Screenshot of a video from DW YouTube channel. Fair Use. The elections from March 15 to 17 are the fifth ones for Vladimir Putin, who has been in power for over 25 years. Many observers have called this a formal ‘electoral procedure’, not real elections because in absence of a free press, repression of all forms of dissent, and failure to admit any even slightly independent candidates, have long been a feature of Putin's elections. However, just like in the Soviet times, the current regime needs people to come to the polls in order to show th...
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The headquarters of the National Office of Audio-visual Media (ONAMA) in N’Djaména, Chad; Photo by Jean Sovon, used with permission. With less than two months to go before the presidential elections on May 6, 2024, journalists are facing death threats in Chad, a country where press freedom and freedom of expression are still at risk. In 2023, Chad ranked 109th out of 180 countries in the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) press freedom index. Journalists in the country face threats and restrictions when covering sensitive topics, particularly under the transitional authority led by Mahamat Idriss...
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Beloved Trinbagonian nuts vendor Keith ‘Jumbo’ Martin, at Woodford Square in Port of Spain, August 11, 2023. Photo by Maria Nunes, used with permission. If you're a cricket fan and have seen a match in the Caribbean, Keith “Jumbo” Martin would be a familiar name — and face. As the cameras panned away from the field and into the crowd during slow moments of the match, international sports commentators would sometimes take to talking about Jumbo as he pelted his packs of warm peanuts — plain, salted or honey-roasted — into the stands with razor-sharp precision. His natural charisma added such lo...
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