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A labor union in Spain that represents hotel maids, many of whom are migrants, is planning to introduce a new reservation app that, in addition to service and amenities, assesses hotels based on how they treat their employees
International aid organisations are helping millions of Afghans who have been displaced due to the war
COVID is causing more people to fish illegally, Kenyan officials say. According to Kenya’s Maritime Fisheries Research Institute, poaching has tripled since last year, resulting in a daily catch decline from an estimated 600 tonnes to 200 tonnes
The Ouagadougou Pan-African Film Festival, which was cancelled last year due to the epidemic, will return to Burkina Faso on Saturday. One Burkinabe director explains the necessity of telling African tales through cinema after making a film about a nursery for the children of sex workers
Ransacked businesses say they are still waiting for government assistance to get back on their feet 100 days after South Africa was rocked by the greatest unrest since the end of apartheid. Frustration over the delayed clean-up is putting the ruling African National Congress party’s future to the test as a local election approaches
The G20 Extraordinary Leaders’ Meeting on Afghanistan is addressed by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres
Officials from the European Union have warned that the bloc is “at risk of collapsing” if it does not appeal a verdict by Poland’s highest court on the supremacy of EU law. As Henry Ridgwell explains, large rallies in favour of EU membership were organized across Poland over the weekend
A trial for the death of Burkina Faso’s former president, Thomas Sankara, begins on Monday, nearly three decades after he and 12 others were killed in a coup in 1987. Former President Blaise Compaoré, who lives in exile in Ivory Coast and is the primary defendant in the case, will not be present
Iraqis voted on Sunday in parliamentary elections that had been postponed until 2022 due to huge protests in 2019. Some think the elections are a new test for Iraq’s democratic system, but many activists say they are marred by corruption and sectarianism and represent little progress
Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer ten years ago, at the age of 56. He was instrumental in creating Apple one of the world’s most successful companies. But, what does the future hold for Apple?