Marawi, Philippines – Maisara Dandamun-Latiph’s office sits on a hill overlooking the ruins of Marawi, the southern Philippine city that was destroyed during a five-month battle with hardline fighters linked to the ISIL (ISIS) group in 2017. Dandamun-Latiph was named chairperson of the Marawi Compensation Board in 2023, after years…
Lagos, Nigeria – Armed with a protest sign, 20-year-old Samuel Adeleke joined a crowd of angry Nigerians gathered in Ikeja, the heart of Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos, on Thursday morning. Passing through nearby residential areas, the few hundred protesters raised placards decrying the high cost of food and rising cost…
“Life has been hard for years now. It’s true that food prices have come down recently, but they’re still so high,” says Rodrigo, a private security guard working in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital. He did not want to give his last name. Amid a decades-long economic crisis, Rodrigo thinks that “people…
India’s government has assigned billions of dollars for job creation and regions run by key coalition partners in a budget aimed at cementing the coalition and winning back voters after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s election setback. Tax changes unveiled in the budget on Tuesday included a higher levy on equity…
Ten million dollars to fly Justin Bieber to India’s financial capital Mumbai for an evening’s performance. An 800-guest cruise around the Mediterranean costing $150m. A wedding ceremony featuring hundreds of guests and a price tag upwards of $600m. These are just some of the numbers that have been bandied about…
NewsFeed Protests in Bangladesh against the reimposition of a quota system for government jobs have turned deadly. Dozens of people were killed in demonstrations calling for an end to the quota system, which favours the children of fighters in the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan. Students are also demanding…
NewsFeed The lavish four-month-long wedding celebrations of Anant Ambani, son of Asia’s richest man, and his bride Radhika Merchant, daughter of billionaire business tycoons, fuelled criticism from campaigners and have shone a spotlight on the growing gulf between rich and poor. Published On 15 Jul 202415 Jul 2024 Check out our Latest News and…
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe – At 5pm at the Victoria Falls border post, Margaret Tshuma – who has a 24-hour day pass to be in Zambia – is in a rush to return home to Zimbabwe before dusk. This is not the first time Tshuma, 53, has travelled from her rural…
Asbestos is deadly, but India continues to be the world’s largest importer of the toxic mineral. 101 East investigates. Once used as an insulating material in buildings around the world, asbestos as been banned in more than 60 countries following the discovery that it causes deadly diseases. But in India,…
Marina Kue, Curuguaty, Paraguay – A lonely dirt road leads to Marina Kue in eastern Paraguay; 2,000 hectares of arable land forever marked as a last stand between the heirs of Paraguay’s late dictator, General Alfredo Stroessner, and the victims of his brutal dictatorship, the landless peasants. At dawn on…
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