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Like other social scientists and scholars, I’ll spend the next weeks and months scouring pre-election data, the exit polls, and the first wave of post-election surveys trying to understand how a majority of American voters chose to return Donald Trump—a twice-impeached convicted felon and adjudicated sexual abuser who incited a violent insurrection when he lost […]

Machine_, a leading creative agency, recently hosted two workshops for the Blackboard Community in Johannesburg and Cape Town. The sessions were designed to offer young creatives an inside look at the advertising world, showing them how different roles – from account management to production — work together to bring client briefs to life. This immersive

Nineteen African states–those currently reporting or that have reported Mpox cases within this outbreak–gathered in a ‘back-to-school’ style meeting in Congo Brazzaville in the first week of November. They shared expertise on developing Mpox vaccination plans, according to the continental Incident Management Support Team (IMST) vaccination pillar. A review of plans submitted to the IMST

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NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Rep. Elise Stefanik to serve as his ambassador to the United Nations. “Elise is an incredibly strong, tough, and smart America First fighter,” Trump said in a statement Monday announcing his pick. Nikki Haley, who challenged Trump for the GOP nomination, was among those who previously held

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Monrovia — African ministers attending the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum in Sochi have been assured of Russia’s ‘total support’ to the continent in ‘different sectors’, reports the BBC. The statement, made on behalf of Russian leader Vladimir Putin by his Foreign Minister, Sergie Lavrov, comes at a time when some African nations have severed ties with

Updated: 11/11/2024 – 15:29 GMT+1 Over a thousand mariachis gathered in Mexico City’s Zócalo to break the record for the largest mariachi performance, playing Cielito Lindo. Surpassing the previous record of 700 musicians in Guadalajara, this event concluded the city’s first Mariachi Congress. For musicians like Jesús Morales, whose family has long practiced mariachi music,

Indigenous people have been telling stories for centuries longer than the film industry has existed. Yet historically, Hollywood has ignored them. Throughout the 20th century, American movies largely portrayed indigenous people in limited, often non-speaking roles, and mostly confined them to narratives about the 19th century period of frontier expansion. In 1998, Smoke Signals—the first

Once thought to be inhospitable, the allure of the polar regions has existed since Viking times. But only in the last century has it become possible to visit these stark landscapes and marvel at the abundant wildlife in relative comfort. And whilst adventurers have pushed the boundaries of human endurance and polar exploration, today Quark