Andor showcases the power of music to oppose tyranny – an homage to the French Resistance: Warning: this article contains spoilers for Andor season two, up to episode nine. This week, many fans are diving into the final episodes of Andor season two on Disney+. Meanwhile, others are still reeling from last week’s powerful episodes. …
Slavery, tax evasion, resistance: the story of 11 Africans in South America’s gold mines in the 1500s: The transatlantic slave trade was one of the most devastating and inhumane processes in human history. It is the subject of many studies, but the individual life histories of the arrival and survival of enslaved people in foreign …
Antibiotic resistance threatens to “undo a century of medical progress”: 5 essential reads: Who hasn’t been prescribed antibiotics by a doctor – for a chest infection or perhaps a sore throat? It’s terrifying to think that these infections can become life threatening if the antibiotic drugs needed to treat them stop working. This is known …
Rachid Mekhloufi was more than a football star, he was a symbol of Algerian resistance: The death of football star Rachid Mekhloufi at the age of 88 has marked the end of an era. For more than half a century, he was an integral part of Algeria’s football landscape, becoming one of the country’s most …
Antifungal resistance is not getting nearly as much attention as antibiotic resistance – yet the risks to global health are just as serious: TopMicrobialStock/Shutterstock Fungi are known for causing superficial infections of the nails, skin and hair, but they can also cause systemic infections that can have much more serious health implications. Indeed, over 6.5 …
Maladies tropicales négligées : la résistance aux médicaments complique le traitement: Le fait que les médicaments ne soient plus efficaces pour traiter les infections constitue un défi majeur pour la santé à notre époque. Cela se produit lorsque les agents responsables des infections (bactéries, virus ou champignons) deviennent résistants aux médicaments. Les antimicrobiens sont une …
Lord’s Resistance Army: ICC awards reparations to victims of commander Dominic Ongwen – what happens next: The International Criminal Court (ICC) has recently ordered reparations for victims of Dominic Ongwen, an ex-child soldier turned commander in the Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel group that terrorised northern Uganda for two decades. The court’s order, the first …
La résistance aux antibiotiques cause plus de décès que le paludisme et le VIH/sida réunis : ce que fait l’Afrique pour lutter contre cette épidémie silencieuse: Chaque année, la résistance aux antimicrobiens – la capacité des microbes à survivre aux agents conçus pour les tuer – fait plus de victimes que le paludisme et le …
Antibiotic resistance causes more deaths than malaria and HIV/Aids combined. What Africa is doing to fight this silent epidemic: Each year antimicrobial resistance – the ability of microbes to survive agents designed to kill them – claims more lives than malaria and HIV/Aids combined. Africa bears the brunt of this development, which thrives on inequality …
Antimicrobial resistance is a silent killer that leads to 5 million deaths a year. Solutions must include the poor: Microbes such as bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi form part of our everyday lives – they live in us, on us and around us. We need them for healthy digestion, immune function, and the synthesis of …
Antibiotic resistance: microbiologists turn to new technologies in the hunt for solutions – podcast: Testing for antimicrobial resistance in the lab. AnaLysiSStudiO via Shutterstock The rise of drug-resistant infections is one of the biggest global threats to health, food security and development. Antibiotic-resistant superbugs were estimated to kill 1.27 million people in 2019, and the …
Resistance to antibiotics in northern Nigeria: what bacteria are prevalent, and which drugs work against them: It's challenging for hospitals in Nigeria to optimally use antibiotics. Getty Images Antimicrobial resistance – the ability of microorganisms to resist drugs that have been developed to control them – is a severe problem in African countries. The continent …
In Iran and beyond, arrests of singers and dancers show how music can be a powerful tool of resistance: Iranian women are prohibited from singing and dancing in public. Yet many are posting videos on social media dancing and singing along to singer Mehdi Yarrahi’s song Roosarito (Your Veil). The wave of videos comes after …
Air pollution linked with global rise in antibiotic resistance: Air pollution is linked with many health problems. Saurav022/ Shutterstock Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to global health. In 2019, it caused over 1.27 million deaths worldwide – and it’s projected that antimicrobial resistance (which includes bacterial resistance to antibiotics) may contribute to ten million …
Ukraine war: why Crimean Tatar fighters are playing an increasing role in resistance to Russian occupation: A resistance group of Crimean Tatars, an ethnic group native to the Russian-occupied peninsula, is now a prominent player in the Ukraine war. The Atesh (fire) movement has pledged to wage an unending war on the Russian invaders of …
African migration to Europe: forced returns run into resistance: Forced return of irregular African migrants from Europe is affecting political relationships in the two regions. GettyImages The forced return of migrants from the European Union (EU) to their countries of origin continues to be a source of major tension in African countries as well as …
Before and after the Nakba: Palestinian literature of resistance and love for a lost homeland: Palestinian novelist and intellectual Ghassan Kanafani was assassinated by Mossad in 1972. Twitter When a society experiences oppression and trauma, literature helps its people by giving them a voice and reinforcing their identity. It gives the trauma those people have …
Antibiotics are being inappropriately prescribed for COVID, increasing the threat of antimicrobial resistance – research: Antibiotics are for bacterial infections – they shouldn't be prescribed to treat viruses. PH888/Shutterstock Antibiotics are drugs designed to treat infections caused by bacteria (for example, skin infections). They don’t work on infections caused by other microbes such as viruses …