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6 days ago | 
es.globalvoices.org | Adesewa Olofinko |Mariela Arnst |Filip Noubel |Jean de Dieu SOVON
¿Cuándo fue la última vez que revisaste la etiqueta de un alimento antes de darle un bocado? Si eres como la mayoría de las personas en África occidental, la respuesta probablemente sea casi nunca, o solo cuando algo parece sospechoso. No es de extrañar que palabras como “fortificación” y “etiqueta de alimentos” suenen más a una clase de química de colegio que a una preocupación cotidiana.
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1 week ago | 
es.globalvoices.org | Filip Noubel |Jean de Dieu SOVON |Mariela Arnst |Liam Anderson
El filósofo y escritor congolés Valentin Yves Mudimbe murió el 22 de abril a los 83 años. Deja una obra esencial para pensar la colonización e identidades africanas. Su libro “La invención de África”, escrita en inglés, sigue siendo un clásico que sigue inspirando a nuevas generaciones de investigadores y lectores.
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1 week ago | 
es.globalvoices.org | Jean de Dieu SOVON |Filip Noubel |Liam Anderson |Cecilia Maundu
Más de dos años después de un golpe de Estado militar, Gabón recupera un gobierno civil, que sigue liderado por un exgeneral que se reinventa como líder político. Los militares tomaron el poder el 26 de agosto de 2023. Poco después, el 4 de septiembre de 2023, el general Clotaire Oligui Nguema hizo esta promesa en su discurso de toma de mando el pueblo gabonés:Nous entendons remettre le pouvoir aux civils en organisant des élections libres, transparentes et crédibles dans la paix sociale.
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1 week ago | 
globalvoices.org | Mong Palatino |Akwe Amosu |Filip Noubel |Janine Mendes-Franco
The story of Mizzima News attests to the role of independent media in chronicling the Myanmar people’s struggle for the restoration of democracy. Mizzima News was established in 1998 by Myanmar refugees in India to provide accurate and independent reporting about the situation in Myanmar communities reeling from decades of military rule. When the government embarked on a democratic transition, Mizzima News became the first exiled media to establish an office in Myanmar in 2012.
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2 weeks ago | 
globalvoices.org | Filip Noubel |Mong Palatino |Daria Dergacheva |Laura Vidal
This report was written by Tom Grundy and published in Hong Kong Free Press on April 24, 2025. The following edited version is published as part of a content partnership agreement. A survey conducted by the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club (FCC) has found that the majority of its members said their working environment had changed for the worse over the past two years. Sixty-nine members took part in the FCC’s biannual Press Freedom Survey between December 2024 and February 2025.
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2 weeks ago | 
globalvoices.org | Balkan Diskurs |Filip Noubel |Daria Dergacheva |Jean de Dieu SOVON
The Roma are the largest minority group in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and are commonly exposed to prejudice, discrimination, and exclusion. Almir Agić, a 22-year-old Roma man from Ilijaš, near Sarajevo, fights prejudice with poetry and art, giving a voice to those who are invisible in society.
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2 weeks ago | 
globalvoices.org | Filip Noubel |Daria Dergacheva |Balkan Diskurs |Jean de Dieu SOVON
War often reduces entire cultures and countries to one over-simplified narrative, particularly in the domain of news. Ukraine was first invaded by Russia in 2014, and then again in 2022, and that story dominates the vast majority of media coverage on Ukraine, given the extent of death and destruction, but also the resistance demonstrated by the Ukrainian people. But Ukraine is also home to its own multilingual and multiethnic literature, music, and art that cannot ignore war but is more than war.
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2 weeks ago | 
globalvoices.org | Filip Noubel |Mong Palatino |Oiwan Lam |Jean de Dieu SOVON
There are about 50 million Chinese people living outside of China. Often reduced to a purely economic actor, this large diaspora is also active in media and culture, including literature, whether its members write in Chinese languages or in the languages of the countries where they now live.
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3 weeks ago | 
advox.globalvoices.org | Oiwan Lam |Mong Palatino |Filip Noubel
The crackdown on press freedom since the enactment of the National Security Law (NSL) in Hong Kong in 2020 has led to an exodus of hundreds of media workers. Many have established independent media outlets overseas to report on politically sensitive news and connect the scattered diaspora communities. While these exile media outlets have the freedom to amplify critical voices, they are still threatened by transnational political harassment.
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4 weeks ago | 
globalvoices.org | Oiwan Lam |Janine Mendes-Franco |Pamela Ephraim |Filip Noubel
This story is part of Undertones, Global Voices’ Civic Media Observatory‘s newsletter. Subscribe to Undertones. On March 19, 2025, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu was detained along with around 105 other municipal officials and politicians on the alleged crimes of corruption and aiding a terrorist organisation, in what Human Rights Watch has called an attempt to suppress legitimate political engagement.
