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Unacceptable constraints on Afghanistan's women: Taliban confirm they will close all NGOs employing Afghan women | AP News apnews.com/article/afghan…

Tanzania votes, Museveni picks, Ethiopia opens: East Africa in 2025 - The Africa Report.com theafricareport.com/372304/east-af…

We have made over 140 attempts in two months to reach besieged civilians in North Gaza. Almost zero access. We need to reach the survivors of this horrific destruction, especially now last hospitals have been taken out:

“It’s a total annihilation of women’s personhood and it is clearly ongoing. We don’t have any idea where this will end.” independent.co.uk/asia/south-asi…

I am grateful to be in Geneva, spending time with my family and celebrating the New Year after the United Nations mission to negotiate the release of our colleagues and the bombardment at Sana’a Airport by Israel as we attempted to leave #Yemen. I am okay, but I have developed tinnitus

China approved the world's biggest dam. If built, it will be three times the current champion Three Gorges. Uh, Nine Gorges? Anyway, David Fickling argues China doesn't need it. Reforming electricity markets would do more good. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

En Afghanistan, les talibans interdisent les fenêtres pour empêcher les femmes d'être vues à la maison. "C’est un anéantissement total de la femme en tant que personne, qui à l’évidence se poursuit. On ne sait pas jusqu’où cela ira" ⁦Heather Barr⁩. independent.co.uk/asia/south-asi…

“This year alone, experts at the two institutes have identified 28 state-based conflicts across 16 of the continent’s 54 countries, more than in any other region in the world and double the count just a decade and a half ago.” wsj.com/world/africa/a…

From today, Paris t+ metro/RER/bus tickets exist no more, no more carnets of 10 either. Metro/RER tickets now €2.50, good for the whole ile de France area with a few exceptions (e.g. airport links). No longer valid on buses, a bus/tram ticket is €2. seat61.com/changing-stati…

Brazil's Amazon saw highest number of fires in 17 years, according to the National Institute for Space Research (INPE).

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved a law that abolishes the death penalty in the southern African state with immediate effect. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Fascinating video uploaded by the K-2 Battalion showing a Russian mechanised assault in their sector just east of Siversk, with high-res drone footage commentated in detail by commander "Oscar". Plenty of evidence of how drones now dominate this war. 1/ youtube.com/watch?v=24WMSi…

Soon after, we see numerous Russian MT-LB APCs, rolling out in different parts of the sector. Oscar mentions that part of the aim is to overwhelm the defending drone teams by way of sheer numbers, pointing to UAVs now being the main tool for defending against an assault. 4/

The conclusion? I remember how a year ago, the drone-vs-artillery debate was still raging. Artillery is still a crucial source of battlefield firepower. But having made monthly trips out to the front over 2024, I cannot overstate how fast things have moved and been upscaled. 9/

2024 becomes warmest year in India since 1901: IMD Details here 🔗 toi.in/MLSEcb

Where do illicit financial flows from African countries go? Our deep-dive analysis uncovers $3.7 billion in suspicious assets spread across 74 jurisdictions. Most are hidden abroad, far from where corruption happens. Read more ⬇️ anticorru.pt/38u

"You've made Hungary the EU's poorest, most corrupt nation." Opposition leader Péter Magyar’s New Year's video message slamming Viktor Orbán's corruption and demanding early elections has gone viral, nearing 2M views on Hungarian social media. Excerpt with English captions.👇

Humanitarian teams from the United Nations and the World Health Organisation have arrived in Northern Gaza. They say hospitals are in ruins and people have no water, food or sanitation.

2025 wird ein Jahr des Umbruchs, oder: Warum ich ab Februar in ein Sabbatical gehe und warum ich dann ab Sommer 2025 außerhalb der Wissenschaft arbeiten möchte: linkedin.com/posts/ronny-pa…

This is my last post with this account on this plattform, at least for the foreseeable future. I'll keep reading to follow some global dynamics that I cannot observe elsewhere. But since I am also leaving international research, I have zero incentives to contribute to Musk-X.