‘We have nothing to cool off with’: French heatwave exposes inequalities
As people living in low-income areas are unable to escape the heat, analysts decry the government’s response.
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UK launches ‘Great British Summer Savings’ to ease family costs
Families to benefit from reduced VAT to help lower costs at theme parks, theatres, zoos, and museums.
‘Half of British Muslims are under 25’: Report shows shifting demographics
Most Muslims are young and many have a degree, but some are disadvantaged in housing while lone-parent families rise.
Israel pushes for hangings and ‘show trials’ for ‘October 7 detainees’
Israel advances legislation to try October 7 detainees in military courts, raising fears of show trials and executions.
In Mauritania, push to phase out private schools divides opinion
Officials say measure will ease systemic discrimination, but private school sector fears education quality is at risk.
In Cape Town’s historic Bo-Kaap, locals priced out by rich foreign buyers
Amid digital nomads, a tourism boom and a housing crisis, can the people who built the city still afford to live in it?
Poor in oil-rich Republic of Congo: As election looms, youth want change
In an oil-producing country where 60 percent of people are under 25, nearly half the population lives in poverty.
‘It’s segregation’: Row over S Africa’s multimillion-dollar crime wall plan
As Cape Town plans security measures along N2 highway, shack dwellers say the project will separate the poor from rich.
Zimbabwean child waste-pickers work ‘hazardous’ jobs to help their families
Boys as young as six scout for scrap metal to sell in a country where 14 percent of children have jobs.
‘Colonial-era classism’: Residents decry demolitions in Nigeria’s Makoko
Thousands displaced from December to February as Lagos authorities destroy homes in Africa’s largest floating village.
Why US-funded vaccine trial plan for babies in Guinea-Bissau caused outrage
The health trial by researchers at the University of Southern Denmark has been suspended by Bissau-Guinean authorities.
