Voters during the DRC’s last elections in Kinshasa.
Dai Kurokawa/EPA
It’s been an eventful year for the Democratic Republic of Congo as the country prepares for elections.
Transversal Theater Company production of Titus Andronicus, 2012.
David Backovsky
Even Samuel Johnson found some of Shakespeare’s violent scenes unwatchable.
A rhinoceros after having had its horn removed.
Kim Ludbrook/EPA
Trading rhino horn has been legalised in a bid to undercut poachers and the black market.
Israeli soldiers in a tank.
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Last week’s Gazan rocket fire and Israeli airstrikes were logical consequences of both sides’ brinkmanship negotiating strategies.
China’s rising influence in the region has alarmed many defence experts. But the question remains: would Australia ever need to fight China on its own?
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Australia committed A$195 billion to defence spending in 2016, but many now believe this is insufficient with China’s rising influence in the region.
Beautifully preserved flowstone and sediment layers from the Cradle of Humankind.
Dr Robyn Pickering
South Africa’s fossils can step out of the shadows of being undated and undateable.
In Tanzania, only half of the children with albinism complete primary school.
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The needs of children with albinism aren’t met in the classroom and this often leads to them dropping out of school.
Nigerians have the lowest trust in the country’s media, thanks to widespread misinformation.
EPA/Ahmed Jallanzo
Disinformation in Africa often takes the form of extreme speech inciting violence and spreading racist, misogynous, xenophobic messages.
A view of ruins in Marawi city, Lanao del Sur province, Philippines, on May 23 2018. Exactly a year earlier, IS terrorists belonging to the Maute and the Abu Sayyaf groups occupied Marawi, triggering a five-month armed conflict that resulted in over a thousand deaths and left the city in ruins.
Linus Escandor II/EPA
Indonesia can also apply strategies implemented by the Philippine government to counteract terrorism and radicalism.
This Nov. 14, 2018 photo shows six women who have filed a lawsuit against Dartmouth College in New Hampshire for allegedly allowing three professors to create a culture in their department that encouraged drunken parties and subjected female graduate students to harassment, groping and sexual assault.
(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
It’s time to stop surveying women about their experiences as rape victims, time to research the men who perpetrate these crimes and work to inebriate and isolate women.
Mangroves growing strong.
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Mangrove forests grow in the tidal lagoons of tropical coastlines and they could actually benefit from climate change. Here’s what that means for us.
Many children don’t receive the treatment they deserve.
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When children are drawn into their countries’ informal justice systems, their human rights are often threatened.
The Rainbow Pride flag.
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Changes that protect or increase human rights should always be welcomed – but we should check motives, too.
Babies should sleep on their backs, as this one is doing.
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Hundreds – perhaps thousands – of infant deaths every year are preventable if parents make sure babies sleep in their own cribs, on their backs.
South Africa has one of the lowest rates of both parents living with their children in the world.
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The diversity of families is one of the important underlying themes of the South African Child Gauge 2018.
Election winner, former coup leader, Josaia Voreq “Frank” Bainimarama, speaking at a climate change conference in Germany in November 2017.
Ronald Wittek/EPA
The re-election of a former coup leader as Fiji’s prime minister comes as Australia pays more heed to the south-west Pacific.
North Korea and Cuba have struck up a friendship that is particularly bizarre given each country’s attitudes towards children. North Korean children, left, live an Orwellian nightmare at the hands of its socialist government while Cuban children, right, are revered, supported and celebrated.
The Associated Press
The new friendship between North Korea and Cuba is puzzling. The two countries should share values as socialist republics, but their brands of socialism are worlds apart when it comes to children.
Several of the newly identified stone tools – unearthed from a museum collection.
Hu Yue
A fresh look at museum artifacts fills in a gap in the Asian archaeological record and refutes the idea that an advanced technique was imported from the West by early modern humans.
Cartoons often have scenes of physical or verbal violence.
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Children exposed to scenes of violence may develop a view that the world is more dangerous than it actually is.
A young member of the migrant caravan at a shelter in Tijuana, Mexico.
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Migrants are being portrayed as a enemy that can legitimately be targeted – and even killed – by the military.