An Egyptian woman takes part in a demonstration in Cairo, 25 January, 2011.
Amel Pain/EPA
How are Wikipedia pages about contentious events put together? Heather Ford discovered a hotbed of passion, a rotating pack of editors and a struggle for power behind its mirage of neutrality.
The Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza.
Ashy Cat Inc
As the Grand Egyptian Museum begins welcoming visitors ahead of its opening in 2023, one object remains conspicuously absent.
Protesters were seen but not heard.
Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Alamy
An expert in climate justice reports from Sharm El Sheikh.
EPA-EFE/Sedat Suna
The agreed loss and damage fund was a breakthrough in an otherwise inconclusive conference.
Inside COP27, young activists like Luisa Neubauer spoke to the media to press their case.
Photo by Michael Kappeler/picture alliance via Getty Images
Activists aren’t necessarily more aggressive than in the past, but they are using creative and sometime shocking new tactics that quickly go viral.
Getty Images
Eight countries are projected to be behind 50% of the growth in population over the next three decades. Five are in Africa.
Activists gather in front of Tel Aviv’s Embassy of Egypt to demonstrate in support of activist Alaa Abdel Fattah.
Photo by Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Many people accept the Egyptian government’s restrictions on freedoms, for a variety of conflicting reasons.
rafapress / shutterstock
Stronger pledges, more climate finance, and payments for loss and damage.
Statues of pharaoh Tutankhamun and mythology jackal.
JK21/Shutterstock
The discovery of Tutankhamun’s ancient Egyptian tomb in 1922 thrilled the world. But people know more about rumours of a curse than the amazing things science revealed about the boy king.
Howard Carter, Ahmed Gerigar and King Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus, opened three years after the tomb was discovered, in 1925.
Wikimedia Commons
The discovery of his tomb full of magnificent and unique objects is more than a story of treasures. It’s also a story of class, privilege, colonialism, political freedom and national identity.
Den Potisev/iStock/Getty Images Plus
Africans are adopting podcasting as a way of telling their own stories. In one class in Egypt, this took a feminist turn.
The sluice gates open at the Owen Falls dam across the White Nile in Uganda on 14 October 1962.
McCabe/Express/Hulton Archive via Getty Images
The mega dam in Jinja was meant to give Uganda energy independence, but this was constrained by Britain’s agricultural interests in Egypt.
Shutterstock
Remember hearing about COP26 in Glasgow last year? There’s a lot at stake in this year’s climate summit, so here’s your essential guide to prepare.
Tourism resorts around the world have suffered an economic hit with a drop in Russian tourists.
Dima Fadeev/Shutterstock
Resorts around the world are looking to attract travellers from other countries to replace Russian travellers.
Shenzhen, in China’s southern Guangdong province. A village until 1980, it’s a rare new city success story.
Photo by Jade Gao / AFP via Getty Images
New towns have had a better track record in places of rapid economic and population growth, such as east Asian countries.
Vladimir Putin and Sergey Lavrov are intent on growing Russia’s African influence.
Kremlin/Wikimedia Commons
Russia is trying to normalise an international order where might makes right. And democracy and respect for human rights are optional.
A view of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a massive hydropower plant built on the River Nile.
Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
The dam has helped to shift longstanding power relationships and could pave the way for more cooperation among all the countries that depend on the Nile.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (L).
Photo by Sean Gallup - Pool /Getty Images
Five essential reads on Russia’s relationship with Africa.
Sadio Mané (left) with Mohamed Salah in 2018 when both played for Liverpool.
Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images
The Caf African Player of the Year is named on 21 July – but it’s only one of eight trophies being handed out.
Mahdi Shaban, a Palestinian living in Gaza, paid for his master’s degree with earnings from digging graves.
Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Political and economic forces across the Middle East and North Africa combine to mean well-educated young people spend years looking for work, which delays their independence and adulthood.