A YouTube screengrab of Kenya’s Evans Chebet with his coach (turned interpreter) at a pre-race interview ahead of the New York City Marathon in November 2022. Image source; Letsrundotcom When Kenya’s long-distance runner Evans Chebet spoke to journalis…
Research flags Sri Lanka where over 9.5 million people may descend into poverty
Mattu pongal (Tamil New Year Festival) in Deraniyagala, Sri Lanka. This year, those who prepared the meal told that there were fewer vegetables than they’d usually serve, because of the skyrocketing prices. Image via Instagram by Amalini, used with per…
Loss and Damage in the Caribbean: We see it, we feel it, we know it
Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley at COP27 in Egypt, November 7, 2022, asking, ‘When will leaders lead?’ Photo by UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose on Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0). A historic move was made at the beginning of this year’s Un…
Dhaka: A refuge that needs to be rescued
Illustration via Unbias The News. Used with permission. This article was originally written by Shamsuddin Illius and published in Unbias The News as part of the “Sinking Cities” series. An edited version is republished in two parts by Global Voices as …
Digitization of public services in Albania has increased their quality, digital rights analyst claims
Aldo Merkoçi, photo: Fisnik Xhelili/Portalb.mk, used with permission. This interview is based on original coverage by Portalb.mk, Albanian-language news site from North Macedonia. An edited version is republished here under a content-sharing agreement …
‘When the porridge is hot, one eats it on the side’: Haiti’s current protests, explained on Twitter
Members of the Formed Police Unit of the Nigerian contingent United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) shoot tear gas into the crowd to disperse violent university student protesters downtown.12/Jun/2009. Port au Prince, Haiti. UN Photo/…
Civil society groups call for justice after a radio broadcaster is killed in the Philippines
Various groups joined a candle-lighting protest to call for justice for the killing of radio broadcaster Percy Lapid. Source: Facebook post of Bulatlat, an independent news website, used with permission, Veteran journalist Percy Lapid, whose real name …
Catholics and evangelicals may get to decide Brazil’s next president
Image: Luis Quintero/Licensed free to use In the middle of a deeply polarized election, with polls led by former center-Left president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and incumbent far-Right Jair Bolsonaro by a wide margin, religion has been one of the issue…
Filipino writers and academics push back against book censorship
The five books tagged as ‘subversive’ by some commissioners of the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (Commission on Filipino Languages). Photo from Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility. A government order stopping the publication and distribution of f…
Far from home, alone: Cambodian students share life in Thailand during the pandemic lockdown
Second from left: A banner demanding Lao, Cambodian, and Myanmar people show passports before entering the park. Photo and caption from Prachatai, used with permission. This article by Seoung Nimol was originally published by Prachatai, an independent …