Add the name of Takeoff, a member of the popular rap trio Migos, to the ever-growing list of rappers, recent and past, tragically and violently killed.
Technology nearly derailed the conclusion of the 2023 presidential elections in Nigeria. The Independent National Electoral Commission could not fulfil its promise to transmit election results from the polling units on its result viewing portal (IReV). This led to calls by some political parties for cancellation and fresh elections. The Conversation Africa asked political scientist Abiodun Fatai how Nigeria can improve its election digitisation.
Il y a 70 ans, dans la soirée du 5 mars 1953, disparaissait Joseph Vissarionovitch Djougachvili, mieux connu sous le nom de guerre de Staline, « l’homme d’acier ».
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Feb. 28, 2023, regarding a multistate lawsuit to block the Biden administration’s student loan debt cancellation program. The Conversation asked John Patrick Hunt, a law professor at the University of California, Davis, and Celeste K. Carruthers, an economics professor at the University of Tennessee, what’s at stake and what clues the court has given as to how it may rule on the matter.
North Korea celebrated the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the Korean People’s Army in February. As it showed off 12 of its massive intercontinental ballistic missile in a military parade, expert Korea-watchers spotted there appear to have been some significant changes in the country’s military and political hierarchy.
La doyenne présomptive de l’humanité, la Japonaise Kane Tanaka, s’est éteinte au mois d’avril dernier dans son pays natal à l’âge de 119 ans. Malgré sa longévité spectaculaire, elle n’a pas réussi à dépasser le record établi par la Française Jeanne Calment, il y a 25 ans jour pour jour.
En France, un diplôme d’une très grande école est, sinon un prérequis, au moins un fort accélérateur aux postes de direction les plus prestigieux. Tous les présidents de la Vᵉ République sont passés par leurs bancs, de même qu’une majorité de PDG du CAC40, dont une dizaine a été formée par la seule École Polytechnique.
“These are not, like, the nine greatest experts on the internet,” noted Justice Elena Kagan – a reference to herself and fellow colleagues on the Supreme Court.
Il y a un an, en février 2022, notre équipe scientifique de la Grotte Mandrin, dans la Drôme, faisait paraître une étude dans Science Advances qui repoussait de 10 à 12 millénaires la plus ancienne preuve de l’arrivée des premiers Homo sapiens en Europe. Nous apprenions que les premiers Hommes modernes étaient arrivés sur le continent dès le 54e millénaire.
Over 8 million Ukrainians have fled their homeland during this past year of war since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. To me, these are not just numbers. My family and friends are among them.
In March 2022, Nigerian women suffered backlash in their pursuit of gender equity. Five gender bills presented to the National Assembly were thrown out.
Kenya’s last execution of a prisoner was in 1987. But the country still hosts a death row population of nearly 600. Almost all were sentenced to death for murder or robbery with violence. New sentences are handed down every year.
Universal, safe and reliable water access is a pressing need in the global south. One-quarter of the world’s population don’t currently have access to clean drinking water. In Ghana, about 5 million people out of a total population of about 31 million lack access to clean, safe water. One person in ten has to spend more than 30 minutes to get drinking water.
If Vladimir Putin launches a new offensive in Ukraine this spring as expected, the key to its success or failure will be the ordinary Russian soldier.
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