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The city that forgot it was built on water  

Dhaka was once defined by its waterways – restoring them, experts argue, could finally free the city from its gridlock

Kingston: Who owns carnival in Jamaica?

Women may be taking centre stage, but behind the scenes lies deep-set gender inequality

Africa’s place in the far right imagination

How the continent figures in global reactionary thought as both resource frontier and ideological battleground

Essay by a Manchu girl in Tibet

A personal essay by a young Manchu woman attending university in Tibet, documenting the experience of being from an ethnic minority background in China. Recommended by: Jessie Lau “What does

Following the flowers in Yemen

A journalist follows Yemen’s nomadic beekeepers as they hold the pressures of climate, deforestation and war at bay Recommended by: Abdirahim Saeed The thorny Sidr tree, scattered throughout Yemen, is

Habemus Papam

And just like that, it was all over, with a puff of white smoke. The film Conclave is no longer being as mercilessly advertised online. Fantapapa, the Italian website which

Dictatorship deluxe

A report on the rise and fall of Uncle Assad’s real estate empire The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria has sparked multiple investigations into how and where the

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