Escaping war: What Ukraine’s children carry with them
For children fleeing Ukraine, what they carry with them can be a source of comfort and hope, and a reminder of home.
Category Archives: Features
‘Shooting themselves in the foot’: Western sanctions on Russia
The more tension there is between Russia and the West, the higher the prices will be for commodities, analysts say.
The volunteers risking their lives to help drug users in Ukraine
For Alexey Kvitkovskiy and other harm reduction volunteers, their mission has become far more dangerous and difficult.
In oil-rich Niger Delta, coastal erosion frustrates locals endlessly
The oil-rich region's residents say they are losing houses and farmlands to coastal erosion, with no government support.
How we remember them: My sister’s tea basket
For two non-biological sisters, tea time is the thread that keeps them tethered - across time, distance, and even death.
Analysis: The ‘satchetisation’ of Africa’s largest economy
High poverty rates in Nigeria have led many businesses, including those in tech, to adopt sachet marketing to survive.
LGBTQ Ukrainians and Russians find solidarity in Berlin
As activists highlight risks for LGBTQ community, Germany’s Quarteera welcomes Ukrainian refugees and Russian exiles.
‘I can’t breathe’: How Manuel Ellis was killed by police
Three months before George Floyd was killed by US police, another Black man spoke his final words: ‘I can’t breathe.'
How ‘alternative facts’ threaten US democracy
As divisions in society deepen, an understanding of a common reality is eroding, social scientists warn.
Monkeypox: Can it be treated and how worried should we be?
Dr Khan looks at the new outbreak of an old virus that has been detected in about a dozen countries in two weeks.
Worlds apart: 24 hours with two refugees in Poland
An Iraqi Kurd and a Ukrainian, part of families with young children, take us through a day in their lives as refugees.
Analysis: The curious case of Russia in Central African Republic
Experts say Russia's involvement in Central Africa could be over just as quicky as it began.
Paying to get paid: Young Zimbabweans trade money, sex for jobs
Experts say a series of monumental economic mistakes has led to acute unemployment and unethical recruitment in Zimbabwe
A week on, Shireen Abu Akleh’s family grieves and wants justice
Shireen Abu Akleh's brother and niece tell Al Jazeera that her killing was an attempt to silence her voice.
Asylum seeker father faces 10 years in Greek jail for son’s death
A 26-year-old Afghan man is charged with endangering his child's life by taking him on a dinghy that capsized.
‘Why should I leave?’: Palestinian Bedouins decry expulsion
Local families are battling to stop what would be one of the largest single displacements of Palestinians in decades.
The Hopi farmer championing Indigenous agricultural knowledge
How millennia of Native American land practices can provide valuable lessons for growing food and sustaining the Earth.
The decaying underbelly of Calabar, Nigeria’s ‘cleanest city’
In the 2000s, Calabar emerged as a tourism hub in Nigeria but all that good work has been rubbished by heaps of litter.
Cape Verde’s recycling initiatives face off against global trash
The powerful Canary Current ferries trash from across the world to the island beaches of the West African country.
Ukraine war speeds Greece’s transition to EU energy gateway
As Europe attempts to abandon Russian energy, Greece is becoming a gateway for LNG because it is surrounded by sea.