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Kenyan choir sings in defiance of law criminalising sharing of indigenous seeds
A grassroots choir in a Kenyan village is using music to resist Kenya’s restrictive seed laws and preserve the country’s fast-disappearing Indigenous seed heritage.
Mizzima News: Surviving the junta and reporting Myanmar’s “Spring Revolution”
Mizzima News founder and editor Soe Myint shared the challenges they faced after the junta grabbed power again in 2021.
World Press Freedom Day: Caribbean media faces new challenges in the age of AI
AI tools, while transformative in terms of efficiency, multilingualism and data analysis, among other processes, also raise unique ethical questions. AI-generated misinformation and disinformation, deepfake technology, biased content moderation, and surveillance threats to journalists represent just some of the risks.
Burundi’s journalists face threats, prison, and censorship
In Burundi, journalists must choose between silence and exile, as the government wages an unrelenting campaign to crush independent media.
Threatened by transnational repression, Hong Kong media outlets in exile aim to preserve press freedom
Hong Kong overseas media outlets and outspoken journalists are also targets of China’s transnational repression.
Vanuatu prime minister criticises post-earthquake documentary for peddling alleged “foreign media bias”
A global media watchdog warned that the leader’s remarks could undermine critical reporting.
Banned song targets Nigerian president’s son for flaunting his wealth
Eedris Abdulkareem’s song “Tell Your Papa” is a lyrical protest against Nigeria’s worsening socio-economic conditions under President Bola Tinubu’s leadership.
AI is as flawed as the people who designed it
AI-powered tools reinforce power imbalances and systematise and perpetuate human biases, but more rapidly than ever before.