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Ibraaz, LondonToo controversial for the Venice Biennale, this haunting video and audio work commemorates murders and genocides with an angry act of mourningThe sound of mourning spills out into the streets. A single, endless wailing note echoes out of the basement of Ibraaz, a relatively new cultural centre in London’s Fitzrovia. This is Gabrielle Goliath’s heart-wrenching Elegy, each of its three films featuring a woman singing just one note until their lungs falter and another woman steps up to fill in for her. Just as a note is about to die, it is sustained. It’s a haunting, shocking act of... Read more

More than 116 others still missing from vessel heading to Yemen with 305 people onboard, UN migration agency saysAt least 109 people, including 15 children, died after a boat carrying 305 migrants capsized off the coast of Djibouti, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said, calling it the deadliest shipwreck off the country.More than 116 others remain missing after the incident, which, according to survivors, happened near Guhere, north of the fishing town of Obock, during the night of 8-9 October when the boat was travelling from Djibouti to Yemen. Continue reading...... Read more

John Mitani spent years studying a huge community of chimpanzees in Uganda. But then things took a dark turn – and his findings stunned the scientific worldJohn Mitani can still remember the first time he set foot in Uganda’s Kibale national park. The old-growth east African rainforest enveloped him, its canopy stretching to heights of 40 metres. Fruit trees bowed under the weight of African star apples and bountiful Ficus mucuso figs. And then there were the chimpanzees. Furry black blobs darted through the jungle, their raucous calls often deafening.It was the summer of 1995, and Mitani, a primatologist from... Read more

Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchersA controversial research trial that will withhold hepatitis B vaccines from some African newborns was given approval to move forward this week.It is a central part of the vaccine vision for Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and a longtime vaccine opponent. Continue reading...... Read more

Jasmine Jobson goes the distance as the British-Somalian boxer battling pain from her past and her family’s disapproval in a heavyweight, tick-the-boxes productionThe true-life success story of boxer Ramla Ali is confidently told in this capable picture from screenwriter Ursula Rani Sarma and documentary director Anthony Wonke, in his feature-film debut. Ali is the British-Somali boxer who escaped to the UK from the Somali civil war with her family as a refugee, and in 2021 became the first person to box for Somalia at Olympic Games. The boxing significance of her last name is actually not mentioned in the film... Read more

The South African-born jurist and former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay has won a Nobel her efforts to promote peace and international law. The 85-year-old, who is an ad hoc judge at the international court of justice, received the news while attending the Nuremberg Forum. The forum is an annual gathering of legal scholars, practitioners, policymakers and civil society in Nuremberg, Germany, the location of the trials of Nazi war criminals that helped lay the foundations of international law. The international criminal court said the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Pillay, a former ICC judge, was important recognition for... Read more