In 2024, Europe to hunt for new partners to offload asylum seekers
From Ghana to Georgia, Rwanda to Albania, the EU is looking for nations that will hold vulnerable people on its behalf.
Category Archives: Features
What’s really at stake in the US moves to target TikTok?
Analysts say it is less about privacy concerns and more about narrative control.
Israel flattened my home, killed my family. I still lit a candle for 2024
Displaced and humiliated, I held on to the hope that my Gaza City home had survived the bombing. Then the photos came.
Kenyan farmers battle toxic legacy of locust plague three years on
Experts say multiple errors were made in a UN-coordinated campaign to tackle the locust invasion in Kenya.
Peace and potato chips: Dreams big and small as 2024 approaches in Gaza
As the year draws to a close, Al Jazeera talks to five people who have lost everything but hope and prayers.
A library of the ‘future’: Can it make the world a better place?
Each year, a new manuscript will be sealed in the Silent Room in the Future Library in Norway. The goal? Inspire hope.
Walkout over weapons: British school students battle Gaza protest curbs
Luton Sixth Form College suspended its student council after a walkout, amid scrutiny of links to an arms major.
Analysis: Has Israel weakened Hamas enough to win the war on Gaza?
As 2023 draws to a close, how strong is Hamas after nearly three months of bombardment and ground invasion?
Taylor Swift and the strange power of ‘Swiftonomics’
Her Seattle concert caused a small earthquake, world leaders vie for her attention: what drives the Taylor Swift Effect?
‘They ordered me to undress’: From Nigeria to Italy, surviving rape
Naomi Iwelu was able to reach Italy but not before enduring unimaginable trauma and violence.
Fabric wars: Ghana’s colourful prints face renewed Chinese competition
China-made African print wax has been available for decades as cheap replicas, but now as high-quality alternatives.
‘You either quit or abide’: A Liberian rapper refugee surviving on music
Theophylline Mulbah has had a long journey to Tunisia, but he's found hope — and music — along the way.
Economic downturn punctures joy of festive season in Nigeria
Festivities have been muted this December in Nigeria as a cost of living crisis reaches new heights.
‘Collective punishment’: Ethiopia drone strikes target civilians in Amhara
Ethiopia's latest conflict has intensified in recent months with a surge in drone attacks seemingly targeting civilians.
Bombed, then stabbed: West Bank doctors recall horrors of refugee camp raid
The Israeli raids on the Nur Shams and Fawwar refugee camps followed a pattern of deadly assaults in the West Bank.
‘Nothing for me in Cameroon’: Waiting in Tunisia, one eye on Europe
Having lost everything and everyone precious to him, Joseph tries to hold things together, waiting to leave Africa.
In Zimbabwe, a small publisher that helped launch big voices shuts down
In 25 years, the couple-run Harare-based Weaver Press published hundreds of Zimbabwean fiction and nonfiction titles.
‘Piles of body parts’: Gaza’s Maghazi residents find families ‘in pieces’
After devastating Israeli attack on refugee camp, relatives return to dig up many victims who are under the rubble.
Displaced Palestinian mother in Gaza gives birth to quadruplets
Iman al-Masry gave birth to four children at a hospital in southern Gaza after being forced from her home in the north.
‘Switch to defence’: Ukraine faces difficult 2024 amid aid, arms setbacks
A failed counteroffensive, declining aid and shifting public sentiments are leaving Kyiv less optimistic about 2024.