To say that never before has the national election campaign been as depressing as this year is a platitude. After the 5 Star Movement, in over ten years of fervour, has managed to destroy the credibility of everything – moreover, with the guilty support of all the
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True songs that speak of suffering, of family dramas, can only be written by those who live a tormented existence. Little girls, forced into early adulthood, when they become butterflies they cry out, and are the voice against misery, hunger, abuse, exploitation, the humiliation of women. Some
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For over a century and a half, the Mafia organisation terrorised Sicily and, from there, the whole of Italy. It has corrupted dozens of politicians, prelates, bankers, magistrates and humiliated good people who were only trying to work. He brought drugs to an island that, also due
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Italy is approaching the vote: one of the top ten economies in the world finds itself in a serious crisis of credibility of its political class and, consequently, of democracy. A situation that is the same as in all other western countries, bar none. And yet, even
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These are delicate hours in Sri Lanka: a profound crisis that has been gripping 22 million people for months is having devastating effects, the likes of which have never been seen before: there is a shortage of essential goods such as food, medicine, gas and electricity, but
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After investigative journalist Mduduzi Mathuthu published an article exposing high-level corruption in the awarding of a waste-to-power contract for Harare, he knew he had once again poked the Zimbabwe government in the eye. When, weeks later, he tweeted that President Emmerson Mnangagwa had been drinking when he
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Rumours were already circulating in the autumn of 2021[1], but in these days the news has become official: AC Milan has changed ownership, and passed into the hands of Investcorp, the Bahraini investment management company[2]. After the long Berlusconi epic[3], after the Chinese parenthesis of the bankrupt
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In the last ten years, six governments have led Italy. These six governments are responsible for causing a possibly unsolvable crisis in the Italian fishing industry: and they have done so out of incompetence and sloth. While Matteo Renzi’s dreams of new drilling died with the referendum
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Kismayo, the heart of Jubaland (southern Somalia), is a strategic port. Hodan Nalayeh, a BBC Somali Canadian journalist, lives there, back to her roots, her people. Kismayo and Jubaland are among the safest areas in Somalia since Ahmed Mohamed Islaam Madobe, who was already in charge of
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Twenty years ago, during the G8 in Genoa, I had stopped being a citizen and was just a hysterical father. My daughter was 16 years old and she had gone there, dressed in braids, Peruvian jumpers and chains, and the news that arrived on the first day
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