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Ebola Bundibugyo virus emergency response: "Medicines are not shoes or cars."

May 29, 2026 by Eric Stobbaerts

Ebola Bundibugyo virus emergency response: "Medicines are not shoes or cars."
Bunia Airport, DRC, 2026. Emergency supplies from cargo flight, including 3,000 items of protective equipment for healthcare workers, being loaded onto MFS truck. Photo: © Ana Schönhofer/MSF, courtesy of MSF

The recent outbreak of Ebola in the DRC and Uganda reflects a global hierarchy of whose lives are protected, whose diseases matter, and which crises are considered economically worth solving. It should not be normal that communities facing deadly outbreaks still depend primarily on improvisation, emergency goodwill, and delayed international attention. Neglected diseases is a euphemism for neglected populations.

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Arsenal is an African club

May 24, 2026 by Sean Henry Jacobs

Arsenal is an African club
Two boys — both ardent Arsenal fans — in the Ethiopian town of Sendafa, September 2007. Photo: Antony Robbins via Flickr

Today, Arsenal is viewed as a open, welcoming, diverse, and above all as representing democracy, antiracism, and forward-looking values. Yet the club spent years (from 2018 until 2025) advertising one of Africa’s most efficient dictatorships through its “Visit Rwanda” sponsorship. Although Arsenal’s sleeve sponsorship agreement with Rwanda has now come to an end, the controversy surrounding the partnership has left unresolved questions

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Poem | To the people of the UK: You have voted. Here is what will happen next

May 11, 2026 by Ishtiyaq Shukri

Poem | To the people of the UK: You have voted. Here is what will happen next
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

With heavy losses for the governing Labour party, and huge gains for the rightwing populist party, Reform UK, the results of last week's local elections on 7 May have reverberated through the UK like an earthquake. Here is what will happen next

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A new generation of politicians of colour is emerging in France. The backlash speaks volumes

April 9, 2026 by Rokhaya Diallo

A new generation of politicians of colour is emerging in France. The backlash speaks volumes
Bally Bagayoko, who was elected mayor of Saint-Denis in the 2026 French municipal elections. Photo: Ed Alcock/The Guardian

Local elections have led to a surge of racism in a country that still struggles to see itself as anything other than white

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Eric Stobbaerts

Eric Stobbaerts was Head of Mission for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the former Yugoslavia from …

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