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We are a global community of over 1,400 volunteers, including writers, analysts, media specialists, and translators, working together without borders. Since 2005, Global Voices has been at the forefront of citizen media reporting. We gather, confirm, and translate the trending news and stories that may be overlooked online, sourcing content from blogs, independent media, and social networks across 167 countries. Many fascinating and significant stories are not found in just one location; they are often spread out across the web in various formats, such as blog entries and tweets, and in different languages. At Global Voices, we ensure these stories are accurately reported and translated into more than 35 languages.

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Somalia’s coastal crisis: Voices from the edge of the sea

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.
Spanish artists reimagine Picasso’s Guernica against the genocide in Gaza · Global Voices

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.
Andrónico Rodríguez: Bolivia's new Evo Morales?

6 days ago | globalvoices.org | Melissa Vida |Eddie Galdamez |María Alvarez Malvido |Jean de Dieu SOVON

This article, by the Bolivian journalist Ernesto Estremadoiro, first appeared in CONNECTAS. An edited version is being republished on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement.
Water wars and hydro-hegemony in South Asia

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.
Street children are given different names that refer to same reality in French-speaking Africa

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.
Southern France is enveloped in ‘multi-source pollution’ cocktail due to Saharan dust and Canadian wildfires

1 week ago | globalvoices.org | Juke Carolina |Jean de Dieu SOVON |Juke Carolina B.

This June, southern France is choking under an intense bout of air pollution with unusually far-reaching origins, as the skies have turned into a global highway where haze from Canada’s aggressive wildfires crosses the Atlantic and mingles with Saharan dust storms drifting up from North Africa.
Russia prepares to get rid of WhatsApp and possibly Telegram

1 week ago | globalvoices.org | Daria Dergacheva |Jean de Dieu SOVON |Eddie Galdamez

On June 10, the Russian Parliament passed a law to create a messenger application “with the ability to use state services.” The precise description of the app in the legislation suggests that it was written to accommodate a messaging app called Max, developed by Russia's largest social media platform, VK.
Mauritius: Victory in diplomatic conflict with London but not for all Chagossians

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

After decades of political conflict, the United Kingdom will finally return the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius. However, the Chagossian people’s identity and resettlement remain unresolved. The Chagos Archipelago is an integral part of Mauritius, an island nation in East Africa. Three years before the country gained its independence on March 12, 1968, the UK government separated the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius, making it a British overseas territory.
Georgia marks 200 days of protests as government crackdown against dissent continues

1 week ago | globalvoices.org | Arzu Geybullayeva |Arzu Geybulla

June 15 marked the 200th day of protests in Georgia, ignited by the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party's November 2024 decision to suspend talks on the country's European Union accession. The milestone was observed with further demonstrations across the country, as crowds gathered in main squares to demand the release of all arrested protesters, a re-run of the October 2024 parliamentary election, and the resignation of the current government.
Animating a love letter to her Ukrainian roots: An interview with stop-motion animator Tamara Finlay

1 week ago | globalvoices.org | Omid Memarian |Filip Noubel |Jean de Dieu SOVON

Tamara Finlay’s stop-motion animations are intimate meditations on memory, heritage, and generational ties. Growing up with Ukrainian grandparents in Dearborn, Michigan, a city defined by immigrant labour, her work is a cinematic love letter to personal and communal histories.