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Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War
The war in Ethiopias northern region of Tigray began in November 2020. It inflicted more casualties than any other contemporary conflict in the world. It has also been among the …
America's Lost Chinese
From the 1850s, as the United States pushed west, Chinese migrants met ordinary Americans for the first time. Alienation and xenophobia lost the US this chance for cultural and …
Economic War
Vladimir Putins first invasion of Ukraine, in 2014, set off a global economic clash, as the West used its clout with international markets to deter and penalise the Kremlin. The …
Internal Empire
Over several centuries, England imposed itself by force and by treaty on the other three nations of the Hiberno-British Isles to form its own English Empire. For much of its life, …
Kneeling Man
In the famous photograph of Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination, one man kneels beside him, trying to staunch the blood: an undercover Memphis police officer embedded with the …
Global Impact
The leprosy epidemic is slowly but surely fading away, says WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The number of leprosy patients in the world was once in the …
Covid Consensus (Updated)
During the first years of the pandemic, the political mainstream agreed that following the science with hard lockdowns and vaccine mandates was the best way to preserve life. But …
Heart Tantrums and Brain Tumours
When Aisha Sarwari moved to America as a young woman, she set out to create her own identity and story. Born in Uganda, she had never lived in South Asia, yet struggled to …
Russia in Africa
Three decades after the Soviet Unions collapse, Russia has transformed from a fringe player to a resurgent great power in Africa. The October 2019 Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi …