Top 10 elections and campaign stories of 2014
1) Rise of the #ElectionDaySelfie One of the not so surprising phenomena that featured around election time in many countries was the taking and uploading of ‘Election Day’ selfies to social media pages. Instagram and Twi...
Collapse Of Libya: The Making Of A Failed State?
Libya’s former leader Muammar Gaddafi was one of the earliest dictators to be ousted by civil uprisings in the context of the Arab Spring. Once the nation’s capital Tripoli fell to rebel forces on 20 August 2011, it was onl...
Serbia: Made in Yugoslavia
Having been born post 1992 I never knew Yugoslavia in its glory. I have only been aware of war, genocide and poverty in these 98,766 square miles of forgotten land, and it seems that the rest of Europe shares in my ignorance. F...
PHOTOS: One Palestinian Museum’s Artistic Message To The Pope
The Pope’s visit to the Holy Land (today’s Jordan, Palestine and Israel) has been the focus of many activists hoping to get the Catholic pontiff to speak out in favor of the Palestinian cause. One such symbolic act ...
From Here to Timbuktu: The Case for Intervention
Since April this year, rebels – made up of Tuareg separatists and radical Islamists with links to Al-Qaeda – have gained hold of northern Mali. Boosted by the surplus of weapons plundered from Gaddafi’s stashes and the sk...
What’s the price to report on Nauru Island?
Media professionals will have to pay A$8,000, with no reimbursement if the application is rejected, for a single entry visa to visit the tiny pacific island of Nauru, where hundreds of asylum seekers are detained by the Austr...
