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Global measurements of child sexual exploitation vary by metric: reported Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) takedown notifications are highest in some EU countries and other high-reporting states (St...
No reliable evidence supports the claim that "giant human bones" have been found beneath African salt flats; mainstream archaeology and recent reporting instead document well-vetted discoveries of nor...
Pieces of debris have been found on western Indian Ocean shores since MH370 disappeared in March 2014, and some of those items — most notably a right flaperon discovered on Réunion in July 2015 — were...
In 2025 the U.S. Navy rotated multiple carrier strike groups into the Middle East to deter Iranian escalation, counter Houthi attacks on shipping, and conduct targeted strikes against extremist groups...
Mahmood Mamdani was born in Bombay (Mumbai) in 1946, raised in the Indian diaspora in East Africa, and shaped by expulsion from Uganda, advanced study in the United States, and a long academic career ...
Public reporting identifies several Minnesota trucking businesses with Somali ties — for example, Amaal Trucking Inc. in Willmar and Care Transportation LLC in Minneapolis — and highlights a large Som...
Mahmood Mamdani is widely profiled in mainstream media and academic sources as a Ugandan-born scholar of Gujarati Muslim heritage, but mainstream biographies and news coverage consulted here do not su...
Genetic studies show that continental African populations are the most genetically diverse on Earth and that Afro-diasporic Black populations (for example, African Americans and many Latin American gr...
Prosecutors in the Minnesota cases have described a wide-ranging set of schemes: the Feeding Our Future “meals” fraud in which defendants allegedly created sites and submitted false meal counts to cla...
Zohran Mamdani is the only child of Columbia University professor Mahmood Mamdani and award‑winning filmmaker Mira Nair; multiple profiles describe his father as a scholar of colonialism and his mothe...
Volcanic activity in 2025 has been unusually busy: the Smithsonian’s Global Volcanism Program recorded 63 confirmed eruptions from 58 volcanoes through 19 September 2025 (with 21 new starts) , and sev...
Israel’s intelligence presence in Africa spans covert rescue and migration networks in the 1950s and 1960s, targeted operational support and high‑profile rescues through the Mossad and military units,...
Mahmood Mamdani’s family migration story centers on a transnational arc from , shaped decisively by the 1972 expulsion of Asians from Uganda under Idi Amin and by his academic migrations for study and...
Mahmood Mamdani’s childhood and early adulthood in Uganda and Pakistan provided lived experience of the racialized, legal, and political legacies of British imperial rule and postcolonial state format...
Mahmood Mamdani’s family migration and his personal experience of expulsion from Uganda are central, repeatedly cited explanations for his scholarly focus on refugees, exile, and the legacies of colon...
US government agencies — principally implemented by USAID, CDC and other U.S. departments — have funded voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) programs abroad as a proven HIV-prevention strategy; ...
The reporting and research in these documents show that foreign aid for LGBTQ(IQ) programs was both widespread and recently disrupted: Outright International documents , and reporting highlights acute...
Slavery on and from the Kenyan coast was part of the broader Indian Ocean and East African slave trades that captured and transported Bantu and other peoples for local plantation labour, domestic serv...
The name Esmael is a variant of the ancient Semitic name Ishmael/Ismail and carries the meaning "God will hear" or "God has heard," rooted in Hebrew and Arabic linguistic elements . It appears across ...
Available systematic reviews show childhood myopia prevalence in Africa is generally low compared with Asia: pooled childhood myopia in Africa ~4.7% (overall) and ~3.5% in West Africa (95% CI 1.9%–6.3...