Category: Latest News

Oct 29
The Metric Is Not The Mission: The End Of The Universal Internet

The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of…

Oct 29
Ethiopia’s army says it has repelled attacks in first comment on fresh fighting

The military says its soldiers inflicted casualties as fears grow of a resumption of a full-blown civil war.

Oct 29
WHO and Africa CDC welcome the allocation of Ebola vaccines to the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Last week, the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) requested a release of Ervebo vaccines from the global Ebola virus disease vaccine stockpile, managed by the International Coordinating Group on Vaccine Provision (ICG).

Oct 29
BRICS bloc agrees on joint declaration, sources say

The BRICS group of countries has agreed on a joint declaration, which is unlikely to name any country but will condemn unilateral war by any country, four sources told Reuters on Saturday. The bloc, which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, E…

Oct 29
“It Was A Complete Shocker”: Americans Who’ve Lived Abroad Are Sharing The Wildest “Reverse Culture Shocks” That Totally And Completely Destroyed Their Entire Perception Of The US

"Something I didn't miss when I was abroad was the tipping culture in the United States. Here, tipping is expected everywhere for everything."View Entire Post ›

Oct 29
The curse of the humanitarian narrative

Using narratives to communicate in the humanitarian and development space is particularly problematic. Here’s why.

Oct 29
‘Europe, Canada are stronger together’: Carney after Trump calls EU ‘associate member’ proposal ‘laughable’

Rest of World News: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday backed closer ties between Canada and the European Union, saying the two sides could work together to .

Oct 29
Farage Vows Tariffs, Visa Bans, Airline Restrictions Against Countries That Refuse Deportations

Nigel Farage has pledged that his Reform UK party would impose tariffs, visa bans, and airline restrictions on countries that refuse to accept the return of migrants from Britain. The post Farage Vows Tariffs, Visa Bans, Airline Restrictions Against Countri…

Oct 29
Eyes open in Addis

In Addis Ababa, the war in Tigray once arrived only in fragments. What happens when the dark we made for ourselves no longer holds?

Oct 29
Ethiopia’s Return to War Threatens to Engulf the Horn of Africa

Analysts fear that the renewed conflict could quickly draw in other regional actors.