Bulgaria’s victory at Eurovision 2026 did not erase the edition’s central political fact: Israeli participation, boycotts and protests moved the contest from music to cultural normalisation in wartime.
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Sexual deepfakes move misogynistic violence into an unstable regime of proof: the image may be false, but the social, professional and political damage is real.
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In Libya, diplomacy does not pass only through political communiqués. It passes through bases, training, drones, advisers and frozen front lines. Behind Moscow’s and Ankara’s gestures, Libyan sovereignty itself remains negotiated in pieces.
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Libyan oil is again attracting major companies. But in a country where the state remains divided, infrastructure has been damaged by war and rent also feeds opaque circuits, the return of the majors does not automatically mean the return of sovereignty.
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Tanger Med’s success is not reducible to container records. It signals a state strategy: control a position, attract industry, capture flows and turn a port into a lever of regional power.
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Sixty-five years after Patrice Lumumba’s assassination, the possibility of judicial action in Belgium recalls that colonial memory is not settled by diplomatic regret or late ceremonies, but by documents, procedures and named responsibilities.
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An artist census may look like a modest administrative gesture. In the DRC, it touches a deeper question: who recognises creators, who counts them, who speaks in their name and what the state does with living culture once it enters a register.
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When Ebola appears in a region already shaped by war, the disease never circulates alone: it travels through broken roads, accumulated fears, forced displacement and the gaps of an exhausted health system.
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In Borno State, an attack on a school recalls that childhood remains one of the first victims of lasting insecurity: not only through abduction or fear, but through the slow destruction of school as a place of protection.
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The announcement of a joint operation by Washington and Abuja against a senior Islamic State figure in the Lake Chad basin is not only a tactical victory. It reveals how counterterrorism war reshapes Nigerian sovereignty, between external support, domestic pressure and the Sahelian expansion of conflict.
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