Annie Zaman

5 days ago | globalvoices.org | Vladyslav Bondarenko |Jean de Dieu SOVON |Annie Zaman

By Vladyslav Bondarenko, maritime security specialist and Global Voices contributor. Along Somalia’s coastline, thousands of families once relied on fishing for their livelihoods. Today, their boats often return empty. Foreign industrial trawlers, many operating illegally, have depleted Somali waters of tuna, mackerel, and lobster. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Somalia loses up to USD 300 million annually due to illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

6 days ago | globalvoices.org | Melissa Vida |Jean de Dieu SOVON |Annie Zaman

Few paintings symbolize the pain and absurdity of war as Pablo Picasso's Guernica, a masterpiece he finished in 1937. The painting, 3.49 meters (11 feet 5 inches) tall and 7.76 m (25 ft. 6 in.) wide, encapsulates the violence and chaos in which of people perished during Spain's civil war (1936-1939). Guernica is the name of a Basque town that was bombarded by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in 1937.

1 week ago | globalvoices.org | Sonia Awale |Qian Sun |Jean de Dieu SOVON |Annie Zaman

This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Chinese development projects abroad. Find more stories here. Much water has flowed since China announced in December 2024 that it would build the world’s largest dam on the Brahmaputra River or Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet to generate 60,000 megawatts of energy or 300 billion kilowatt-hours per year.

1 week ago | globalvoices.org | Jean de Dieu SOVON |Annie Zaman |Written byJean Sovon |Translated byLaura

Throughout French-speaking Africa, street children are an all-too-common phenomenon. Although different names are used to describe these children, they all refer to the same precarious reality. In 2021, the International Catholic Child Bureau (BICE) reported there were over 120 million street children worldwide, including 30 million in Africa. In 2025, this figure is estimated to reach 35 million in Africa.

1 month ago | globalvoices.org | GV South Asia |Annie Zaman |Ramna Saeed |Mi historia

In the wake of “Operation Sindoor,” what the Indian government called the bombing of targets in Pakistan the night of May 6, 2025, much of the media fanfare in India has focused on the supposed triumph of gender equality: women military officers leading the charge, images of empowered Indian women donning uniforms, and glowing headlines about “the nation's support for gender equality and the value of women to national defence” Yet beneath this veneer of progress lies a deeply unsettling...