Writers are being bombarded daily with invitations from fake book groups and offers to publicise their work. For the scamming industry, aspiring authors can be a soft touch• This piece first appeared in the Dial‘Hello Professor...
Read MoreCalculations from the Center for Global Development say spending next year is likely to be £410m less than anticipatedThe UK is on course to miss its target of spending 0.3% of national income on international aid by an...
Read MoreOfficial forecast indicates shortfall below 0.3% of national income in promised official development assistanceThe UK is on course to miss its target of spending 0.3% of national income on international aid by an estimated £400m...
Read MoreCountry has not had an election in 33 years and has withdrawn cooperation with UK on migrant returnsEritrea, the east African country embroiled in a row with the UK over its refusal to accept the return of rejected asylum...
Read MoreAt first the idea of mercy was something that helped me through the ordeal. But would real forgiveness be a form of Stockholm syndrome?I knew Mohamed Tahlil as a gentle pirate who oversaw a team of guards during the first months...
Read MoreJohn Mitani spent years studying a huge community of chimpanzees in Uganda. But then things took a dark turn – and his findings stunned the scientific worldJohn Mitani can still remember the first time he set foot in Uganda’s...
Read MoreThe term Afrobeats is applied to all sorts of genres, flattening them into one. Artists, media and the music industry must do better at showing off the richness of African popIn 2024, South African pop star Tyla won the best...
Read MoreA week after Elizabeth ‘Tsontso’ Moselakgomo’s body was found, runners took part in a morning run to honour her name and demand more protectionThe runners smiled and laughed, congratulating each other on finishing their 5km or...
Read MoreEqual Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator displayThree cartographers have spoken of their astonishment at the UN’s near-universal adoption of a map they created to more...
Read MoreA new map of the world rescales the size of Africa and calls into question our perception of land, power and influenceThis month, the UN passed a resolution, brought to the assembly by Togo, to phase out the traditional Mercator...
Read MoreTory and Whig MPs were central to funding trafficking of enslaved people and many opposed abolition of the slave tradeThere is a British culture of celebrating the abolition of slavery without acknowledging that the country...
Read MoreMore than two dozen teenagers stuck in the Spanish territory of Ceuta shared their reasons for joining the treacherous mass crossing in JulyFor Fatin, one of the teenage girls now living in limbo in a makeshift camp in the...
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