All that remains of the political icon is a tooth, but it represents much more than just a human trophy.
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Colonisation, genocide and changes in official languages have resulted in the hybridisation of languages. A mix of Kinyarwanda, French and English is dubbed kinyafranglais.
Lumumba’s death triggered students and created a generation of activists that pushed for total liberation from exploitation and oppression.
For relations with the DRC to truly improve, the Belgian state must acknowledge its historical responsibility more strongly.
Both the Russian and US arsenals boast thousands of nuclear weapons, located in various places around their own countries and, for the US, in Europe as well.
History tells us that neutrality rarely works as a mechanism for preventing conflict.
Dietary guidelines can do a better job clarifying the differences between beneficial and harmful forms of processing.
The world needs to learn to live with the virus. And governments must follow the science and don’t distort it for political expediency.
Trips to their home countries by migrant youth help them create and update their relationship with the countries their families come from.
Covid-19 has raised important questions about the many different ways of belonging to a country: where does the boundary between insiders and outsiders lie and who should be in or out?
The IOC was under considerable pressure to host the 1920 games. While a noble goal, it resulted in significant hardships for war-torn Belgium and the athletes themselves.
Carbon dioxide levels can be a proxy for the amount of airborne coronavirus in a room, but plenty of things can mess with the measurements.
A soldier is on the run after being charged with the attempted murder of the government’s leading pandemic expert.
Multiple incidents prove that borders in Europe are often as clear as mud.
Boundaries aren’t just treaties. They’ve been built from rivers, oral history and newspaper notices — and rocks in the way of farmers.
Biosphere reserves are the living labs in which people and nature learn how to live and thrive together. Four pilot sites in Africa show the programme’s promise.
Almost a third of legislatures had no direct oversight over the initial responses to the pandemic.
In Namur, Belgium, archaeological excavations were almost buried for good under the cover of lockdown. The incident draws attention to weaknesses in archaeological heritage protection systems.
The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare Europe’s vulnerability to drug-supply disruption. Still, it remains by far the world leader in pharmaceutical products.
Europe is getting wilder as more people live in cities, but Naya’s death shows this trend may have limits.
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