Every day, in Uganda, dozens of people disappear, killed in the streets or arrested without charge, and others remain on the ground, exhausted, after indiscriminate police attacks. Despite being a country with an ostensibly democratic parliament, for more than 60 years this country, which holds a key
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After centuries of anti-Semitism, the horror provoked by the Holocaust made possible the birth of the State of Israel – a miracle that the Jewish people were forced to defend with arms for many years. Now that era is over, and the Arab countries, Egypt in the
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Two and a half centuries ago, the physicist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier uttered a phrase that has become a mantra of our civilisation of progress: ‘Nothing is created, nothing is destroyed, everything is transformed’[1] . In these difficult months of war and skyrocketing inflation, the media is full of
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At the end of the 1960s, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the US Department of Defence was the first agency to initiate an interconnected communication project called ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet. Things have changed a lot since then, as the Internet, with its
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The South African multi-billionaire Elon Musk has bought, for 44 billion dollars, the social network Twitter, which has over 200 million subscribers worldwide. He immediately explained that the aim of his operation is not to make money, but to influence democratic debate, opening up new avenues for
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There is a tax haven that doesn’t actually need the money from tax evasion, because it is still among the richest in the world. The United Arab Emirates have set up dozens of areas outside the law, and with these they earn impressive sums of money, but
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Years ago, if I had been asked about my ideal honeymoon, I would have said: the Seychelles Islands. Beautiful and exotic, far away and yet so close to the war raging in Europe, it is where billionaires Alexei Mordashov and Andrey Kostin hide their wealth. Mordashov is
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Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has a small Renault in which she drives into town for work or family errands. She is an inconvenient journalist, covering stories of international crime hunters who, for one reason or another, stop over in her home islands – the Maltese archipelago. One
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Madiba’s dream is dead. For almost four years now, South Africa’s democratic system has been close to collapse. Poverty, disease, lack of education, lack of prospects, lack of jobs and lack of health care have created on the one hand a generation of cynical, arrogant and corrupt
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Although we have grown up in a Eurocentric culture, we now know that in the time of the Romans and Greeks, great civilisations flourished in Africa, led by ultra-centenarian monarchies. The expansion of the Sahara desert, colonialism and the slave trade have erased almost everything. The Zulu
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