The routine at these almost daily rallies goes like this: crowds gather, including local activists like Y’en a marre and the civil society activists in M23. They chat, rail against incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade, and exchange the latest news until one or more of the opposition candidates running against Wade arrives. Youssou N’dour often shows up as well.
Djily Baghdad, featured here in video, raps the anthem of the Y’en a marre (we’re fed up) movement. Y’en a marre is a large community of rappers who are demanding President Abdoulaye Wade to leave power.
We are looking for a small community near Toronto where Canadian singer Hayden and group The Philosopher Kings come from.
For the Geo Quiz we are looking for a city located about halfway down Chile’s long Pacific Coast that hosts an unusual mountain bike race that follows a very topsy turvy course.
“Funk carioca,” or simply “funk” is a mixture of hip-hop, samba and electronic music that has had a rocky relationship with Brazilian authorities.
In Panama, scientists are racing to find and save frogs before they succumb to a virulent fungus that’s been killing amphibians around the world. Sabri Ben-Achour reports on the effort to get frogs into what they’re calling “amphibian arks.”
The IMF predicts that the impoverished Balkan state, along with Estonia, will see the highest economic growth in the troubled eurozone this year.
In Brazil’s business capital, Sao Paulo, some of the city’s poorest are making themselves visible by risking their lives to tag the city’s high-rise buildings with graffiti.
Wardi was buried Sunday in a ceremony attended by tens of thousands of Sudanese including President Omar al-Bashir.
New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid, who twice won the Pulitzer Prize, has died on assignment in Syria.
A new study by British scientists shows that baby goats develop different “accents” depending on the groups they associate with.
A Spanish ballet dancer has been on a seemingly quixotic mission for years: to create a national ballet in his homeland. As The World’s Gerry Hadden reports, he’s still at it despite Spain’s economic downturn.
DC Comics has created an African superhero modeled after Batman. His name is Batwing and he’s battling evil in the Democratic Republic of Congo!
Tired of staying in their homes for fear of becoming a victim of the drug violence, the people of Ciudad Juarez are triggering the revival of business for the city’s once dormant nightclubs and restaurants.
Zurich, Tokyo, Geneva, Osaka Kobe, Oslo are the top five cities of a list compiled by international economists.