Benin recently inaugurated President Romuald Wadagni as its new leader in the latest transition in the West African nation.

This story originally appeared in The Stranger’s 2026 Queer Issue. On April 19, 2026, Russell Johnson, the founder and lead ...

Moscow, IRNA – A senior researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, referring to the US and Israeli imposed war on Iran, says the specific identity ...

By December 2022, all universities had closed their doors to women. Girls’ education was banned beyond the age of 12. Women ...

Lebanon’s government has long wanted the powerful militia to give up its weapons. Before the Iran war began, there were signs ...

Faculty who support Palestinian rights are applying for compensation, claiming they faced harassment as Jews for their positions ...

Sometime in January this year, a senior Lagos-Ibadan journalist called my attention to a news story in which Hannatu Musawa, President Tinubu’s Minister of Art, Culture, Tourism and Creative Economy, ...

Addressing issues ranging from representation and reservations to student suicides and institutional discrimination, Dwivedi ...

Fearful of being labeled antisemitic, the University of Pennsylvania has acquiesced to the demands of a punitive Trump ...

The Buganda Kingdom has defended Ssekabaka Mwanga II over the killings of present-day Uganda Martyrs, saying the individuals had “committed treason”. Some 45 courtiers and subjects of the then the ...

What happened to Afghanistan's female academics?

By Tisaranee Gunasekara The child was nine and came from a broken family. When his mother developed a health complication, he ...