An author who has drawn strong parallels with the iconic Black lesbian feminist writer Audre Lorde has spoken to FRANCE 24 about Lorde’s legacy, and her hope that she is carrying on her message. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is author of the new biography “Survival is a Promise – The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde”. At … Read more
Purple hair streaked with gray frames Mirjana Nesic’s face. She is looking down at her hands and says that they are tired from work. She is an employee at the South Korea-owned automotive industry supplier Yura in Leskovac, Serbia. The 50-year-old says she needs to take painkillers, but they hardly help anymore. Pressure at the … Read more
It is Donald Trump’s unpredictability that worries German politicians the most. Will he once again criticize Germany harshly, like he did during his first term in office? Will he run against NATO, especially against his European partners, or even threaten to leave the alliance? It is difficult to know — and this is causing a … Read more
Nearly 1,000 people have been arrested in Islamabad since Sunday after taking part in a protest march calling for the release of Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan, the capital’s police chief said Wednesday. Source link
A ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah, brokered by the US and France, went into effect this Wednesday, paving the way for the more than 1.2 million Lebanese citizens displaced by war to return home. More than a year of cross-border fighting had cost Lebanon an estimated $8.5 billion in physical damage and economic losses … Read more
It’s hard to believe she’s only been out of power for three years. While no one expects Angela Merkel’s supporters to rally behind calls to “make Germany great again”, the excitement surrounding the release of her memoirs highlights a sense of nostalgia for a leader whose record-breaking tenure came to embody stability in a changing … Read more
Russia currently occupies about 18 percent of Ukraine’s territory. Yet reliable information about what life is like there is hard to come by, since there is no longer any access for Ukrainian media. Nevertheless, various Ukrainian initiatives aim to shed light on what is happening in the occupied territories. The picture they paint is one … Read more
Displaced people living in Sudan’s North Darfur state cheer at the arrival of the first convoy of food and supplies in months, but the glimmer of hope is still vastly short of what’s needed. Also, Namibia heads into general elections, with the ruling party SWAPO facing stiffer than ever competition amid popular frustration over disparities. … Read more
The top prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday asked judges to grant an arrest warrant for Myanmar’s junta leader. Min Aung Hlaing is suspected of committing crimes against humanity through the deportation and persecution of the mainly Muslim Rohingya minority which accuses the military of mass killings and rape. Some 750,000 Rohingya … Read more
German football club Borussia Dortmund signed a three-year sponsorship deal with leading German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall in May, but the contract has proved controversial with club members now voting against it. The Düsseldorf-based company, the fifth-largest weapons manufacturer in Europe, became a “Champion Partner” of the Bundesliga club in a deal worth between €7 and … Read more