“Fears for democracy as buoyant Bangladesh turns 50”, BBC News
Anbarasan Ethirajan, London, 24 March 2021
Bangladesh is held up by many as a model of development, but as it… Continue reading
“More than 300 Covid-related deaths and health staff shortages push Eastern Cape hospitals to the edge”, Daily Maverick
By Estelle Ellis, Luvuyo Mehlwana and Hoseya Jubasem, Johannesburg, 23 March 2021
With mounting legal claims against the Eastern Cape… Continue reading
“Pulka, where water is the source of life… and disease”, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International
Project Update, Paris, 16 March 2021
Violence which spread throughout Borno state, in northeast Nigeria, has forced people like… Continue reading
“Sheldon report into sexual abuse details the horror in the ‘beautiful game'”, The Guardian
David Conn, London, 17 Mar 2021
Analysis: Inadequacy of child protection for decades in football and across British life… Continue reading
“Collecting the evidence”, Le Monde diplomtique
By Claire Launchbury, Paris, March 2021 edition
Publisher and activist Lokman Slim, assassinated last month in Lebanon, spent 30 years… Continue reading
“March 11, 2020: The Day Everything Changed”, NPR
Laurel Wamsley, Special Series, The Coronavirus Crisis, March 11, 2021
A year into the coronavirus pandemic, the enormous changes in… Continue reading
“Syria conflict 10 years on: 90 per cent of children need support as violence, economic crisis and COVID-19 pandemic push families to the brink”, UNICEF
Press Release, Amman/New York, 10 March 2021
Almost 12,000 children killed or injured in the past decade, according… Continue reading
“How Scientist Jennifer Doudna Is Leading the Next Technological Revolution”, Smithsonian Magazine
By Lila Thulin, March 9, 2021
A new book from Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson offers an incisive portrait of… Continue reading
“Inside the COVID-19 recession, one of the most unequal in modern history”, CBS 60 Minutes
Scott Pelley, Mar 07, 2021
Soon, President Biden is expected to sign a third COVID recession relief plan just days… Continue reading
“Iran’s top nuclear scientist discusses the potential for a nuclear deal with the U.S.”, PBS NewsHour
Reza Sayah, Mar 9, 2021
One of the most pressing foreign policy decisions facing the Biden administration is… Continue reading