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Bobi Wine: The election hopes of Uganda’s reggae politician
- Africa
- January 9, 2021, 06:00
On Thursday, the people of Uganda will cast their ballots in that country’s 2021 presidential election. The incumbent, President Yoweri Museveni, is a(...)

Climate change: Building smallholder resilience in sub-Saharan Africa
- Africa
- August 3, 2020, 20:37
Smallholder farmers are the backbone of the global rural economy, but they are bearing the brunt of climate change. Worldwide, there are 500 million (...)

Entrepreneurs in Uganda are taking control of their own destiny
- Economy
- November 23, 2019, 01:00
On a sweaty afternoon in a facility about an hour north of Ugandan capital Kampala, Richie Rugaya and his colleagues are busy showing off their coffee(...)

In the slums of Bangalore, people gather raw material for a multibillion-euro industry. Here, human hair is a valuable commodity that fetches a hig(...)

African fashion designers: ethically changing lives
- Fashion
- April 21, 2018, 06:00
“We are not selling because this is African, it is because of good design, desirable, and worth wearing,” says Belfast-born Penny Winter, a former cos(...)

Small shoulders: The children forced to work in Vietnam
- Asia-Pacific
- October 30, 2017, 18:11
A female singer belts out a Vietnamese love song on the radio as a tear rolls down Tran Bao Ngoc’s cheek. Her voice falls to little more than a hush. (...)

Changing attitudes to Ho Chi Minh City’s unpaid domestic work
- Asia-Pacific
- June 19, 2017, 01:00
Pho is a serious business in Vietnam. In the city formerly known as Saigon, the noodle soup became popular first when millions fled from the North dur(...)

Migration in the Mediterranean: the toll on humanity
- Opinion
- April 20, 2015, 19:30
Last September, photographer Frank Miller and I spent a week in Sicily reporting for The Irish Times on the story of Mediterranean boat migration. We (...)

Burmese military still controls politics as reforms falter
- Asia-Pacific
- February 6, 2015
Snarling, beeping traffic jams are something new in Yangon. They are a headache for the city’s commuters but are also a sign of Burma’s progress. S(...)

Irish journalist’s killer gets death penalty
- World
- November 17, 2014, 21:13
The man who killed Irish BBC cameraman Simon Cumbers in Saudi Arabia 10 years ago has been sentenced to death by a court in the kingdom. Adil Sa’ad Al(...)