Estefanía Salazar

3 weeks ago | globalvoices.org | Jean de Dieu SOVON |Arzu Geybullayeva |Estefanía Salazar |Ameya Nagarajan

This article by Ahmed Jedou, a Mauritanian blogger and activist, was first published in Arabic by Raseef 22* on March 17, 2025. This edited version was translated into English and published on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. Every year, Mauritanians await the month of Ramadan and the iftar meals that break their daily fasts at sundown.

3 weeks ago | globalvoices.org | Jean de Dieu SOVON |Arzu Geybullayeva |Estefanía Salazar |Ameya Nagarajan

Liberia’s long and turbulent history of civil conflict, marked by two brutal civil wars, has scarred the nation’s socio-economic and political fabric. The first civil war lasted from 1989 to 1997, and the second from 1999 to 2003, with the wars killing a total of . Efforts toward peace consolidation and national reconciliation in the post-war period have been protracted and, in many respects, incomplete and symbolic.