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Military troops drive through Goma in North Kivu, eastern DRC, in November 2022. Augustin Wamenya/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Conflict in the DRC: 5 articles that explain what’s gone wrong

(Tiempo de lectura: 2 - 4 minutos)

For nearly three decades, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been embroiled in violence. Millions of people have been killed, and an estimated...

26 Noviembre 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Julius Maina y Kagure Gacheche

Les paysans du Burkina Faso sont inquiets pour leur avenir. Pour cause, l'insécurité grandissante, la pression foncière et la surexploitation des terres. Raphael Belmin / Cirad, CC BY-NC-ND

Photoreportage : Au Burkina Faso, un laboratoire à ciel ouvert pour la transition agroécologique

(Tiempo de lectura: 5 - 9 minutos)

Un petit matin de septembre 2022 : Hamado Sawadogo et son équipe d’agronomes ont quitté la ville de Ouagadougou aux aurores. Ils filent vers le nord-o...

03 Diciembre 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Raphaël Belmin, Amélie d’Anfray

Wilma Mankiller, first female principal chief of Cherokee Nation, led with compassion and continues to inspire today

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

If you fish in your pocket or purse for a U.S. quarter today, there’s a chance you’ll see Wilma Mankiller’s face. She was the Cherokee Nation’s first ...

24 Noviembre 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por La redacción

Young activists have been pushing to keep a 1.5-Celsius limit, knowing their future is at stake. AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty

After COP27, all signs point to world blowing past the 1.5 degrees global warming limit – here’s what we can still do about it

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

The world could still, theoretically, meet its goal of keeping global warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius, a level many scientists consider a dangerous ...

23 Noviembre 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Peter Schlosser

Takeoff performs onstage in Atlanta on Oct. 8, 2022. He was killed less than a month later. Paras Griffin/Getty Images

Rappers are victims of an epidemic of gun violence – just like all of America

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

Add the name of Takeoff, a member of the popular rap trio Migos, to the ever-growing list of rappers, recent and past, tragically and violently killed...

05 Marzo 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por A.D. Carson

Twitter itself produces a lot of data that’s available nowhere else. STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images

What the world would lose with the demise of Twitter: Valuable eyewitness accounts and raw data on human behavior, as well as a habitat for trolls

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 5 minutos)

What do a cybersecurity researcher building a system to generate alerts for detecting security threats and vulnerabilities, a wildfire watcher who tra...

21 Noviembre 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Anjana Susarla

Graffiti sur un trottoir parisien, le 14 septembre 2022, contre la coupe du monde au Qatar. Joel Saget/AFP

Coupe du monde au Qatar, Shell, Danone ou Nike : les questions que soulèvent les boycotts

(Tiempo de lectura: 4 - 8 minutos)

Depuis quelques mois, l’idée d’un boycott de la coupe du monde au Qatar fait son chemin. En France, plusieurs maires ont récemment annoncé que leur vi...

19 Noviembre 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Hélène Ducourant

Former President Barack Obama raises hands with Stacey Abrams and U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock at a Oct. 28, 2022, campaign event in Georgia. Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images

A brief history of Georgia’s runoff voting – and how this year’s contest between two Black men is a sign of progress

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

In the U.S., all elections are administered by the states. But not all states use the same rules. Georgia uses a version of runoff voting, which enta...

18 Noviembre 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Joshua Holzer

Asake live in Atlanta in the US in 2022. Paras Griffin/Getty Images

Asake, the breakout pop star from Nigeria who owned 2022

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 5 minutos)

Asake’s first commercial releases, beginning with the song Lady in 2020, didn’t really portend a seismic shift in Nigeria’s teeming Afrobeats scene. T...

17 Diciembre 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Sanya Osha

Giorgia Meloni (à gauche) accueillie par la présidente du Parlement européen, la Maltaise Roberta Metsola (Parti populaire européen, PPE), à Bruxelles, le 3 novembre 2022. Valeria Mongelli/AFP

L’extrême droite au Parlement européen, ou le renard dans le poulailler

(Tiempo de lectura: 4 - 8 minutos)

Plusieurs pays de l’Union européenne sont actuellement gouvernés par des partis politiques d’extrême droite.

16 Noviembre 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Christin Tonne

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Elon Musk: how being autistic may make him think differently

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 5 minutos)

The business magnate and new owner of Twitter Elon Musk revealed a while ago that he is autistic. Musk, the wealthiest person in the world, is autisti...

15 Noviembre 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Punit Shah y dos más

Talokan is inspired by Mesoamerica, a vast area that encompasses Central America and parts of Mexico. Marvel Studios

‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ continues the series’ quest to recover and celebrate lost cultures

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 5 minutos)

As someone who teaches and writes about Afrofuturism, I’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” I’m particularly exc...

04 Diciembre 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Julian C. Chambliss

Mark Zuckerberg can sack 11,000 workers but shareholders can’t dump him: it’s called ‘management entrenchment’

(Tiempo de lectura: 2 - 3 minutos)

“I want to take accountability for these decisions and for how we got here,” tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg told the 11,000 staff he sacked this wee...

11 Noviembre 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Mark Humphery-Jenner

US midterms: five reasons why the election results matter

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

As the US midterm election results roll in, it’s evident that the Republican “red wave” that many experts anticipated hasn’t materialised. Early numbe...

10 Noviembre 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Thomas Gift y Julie M Norman

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Conflict in the DRC: 5 articles that explain what’s gone wrong

Photoreportage : Au Burkina Faso, un laboratoire à ciel ouvert pour la transition agroécologique

Wilma Mankiller, first female principal chief of Cherokee Nation, led with compassion and continues to inspire today

After COP27, all signs point to world blowing past the 1.5 degrees global warming limit – here’s what we can still do about it

Rappers are victims of an epidemic of gun violence – just like all of America

What the world would lose with the demise of Twitter: Valuable eyewitness accounts and raw data on human behavior, as well as a habitat for trolls

Coupe du monde au Qatar, Shell, Danone ou Nike : les questions que soulèvent les boycotts

A brief history of Georgia’s runoff voting – and how this year’s contest between two Black men is a sign of progress

Asake, the breakout pop star from Nigeria who owned 2022

L’extrême droite au Parlement européen, ou le renard dans le poulailler

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Elon Musk: how being autistic may make him think differently

‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ continues the series’ quest to recover and celebrate lost cultures

Mark Zuckerberg can sack 11,000 workers but shareholders can’t dump him: it’s called ‘management entrenchment’

US midterms: five reasons why the election results matter

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Necesitamos tu apoyo económico para hacer un periodismo fiable y con valores sociales

Necesitamos tu apoyo económico para hacer
un periodismo fiable y con valores sociales