Welcome to The War Room. This newsletter regularly covers Ukraine, Gaza and other geopolitical flashpoints, and rightly so. This week, though, Shashank asked me to send a dispatch from a region ...

The world is watching a slow-motion atrocity unfold in Nigeria and Ethiopia, and too many global institutions refuse to speak ...

Grief has always been a private emotion. It once belonged to families, to neighbourhoods, to communities; those after burial ...

Balochistan is Pakistan’s largest yet most neglected province. It stretches across the country’s southwestern edge, bordering ...

A group of Eritrean community members are banding together to try to bring a clinical psychologist from East Africa to ...

Ethiopian authorities had suspended nine DW correspondents in October, only to reinstate seven this week and permanently ...

Kenya could once again be dragged back into a role it thought it had outgrown. It was once one of several African cities offering shelter to political refugees: rebels, dissidents and ousted leaders.

With a drone in one hand and a smile in every frame, WodeMaya has become more than just a YouTuber. He is Ghana’s and ...

A coalition of eminent Africans has urged ECOWAS to release Guinea-Bissau’s election results and halt military interference ...

If you've heard "goblin mode" or "swiftie" lately, it's thanks to them: Young girls are more innovative with language than any other group, linguists say. Young women check their phones on a fire ...

Evolution of language is the gradual change in human language over time. It involves the origin and divergence of languages and language families, and can be considered analogous to biological ...

Despite the great diversity of human languages, recurring grammatical patterns (termed ‘universals’) have been found. Using the Grambank database of more than 2,000 languages, spatiophylogenetic ...