Most of the African Union (54 countries), just signed a landmark agreement to make the entire political organisation also a free trade zone. Two important countries, however, Nigeria and South Africa, have not signed. Why not?
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Tackling Hate Speech & Fake News
Countries around the world are waking up to the problem of fake news and hate speech, and how the internet makes it harder than ever to regulate. Two articles show how two different countries, Germany and Ireland, are trying to deal with the problem, with various degrees of success.
The toll of Afghanistan’s war
A grass-roots movement, maybe, is marching across Afghanistan to protest the unending conflicts and violence that have wracked the country for years, decades, and generations.
A war criminal no more
In what was considered a landmark case, a warlord was convicted for crimes his troops committed in the DRC, including rape. That verdict has now been overturned, based on the argument that he could not possibly have known – and therefore ordered – the behaviour of his troops.
Helping people see the world
One of the single biggest ways to improve education and poverty outcomes for millions of people around the world is simple: give them glasses. The glasses industry, however, is almost totally dominated by a few companies, which makes giving glasses away quite difficult. In the US, at least, this is changing somewhat through Warby Parker. Will this be scalable to other countries?
Missiles in Iran?
Interesting use of satellite and other data to determine whether Iran’s missile programmes are still underway.
Reading Roman Ice
Fascinating scientific research has unearthed precise year-by-year accounts of the entirety of Roman economic history. How? By reading ice sheets in Greenland.
