PICTURE SHOW: RAY AND KEN’S PHOTOGRAPHIC ADVENTURES
Images captured by Australian journalism identity Ray Martin and iconic photographer Ken Duncan during their joint – as well as separate – photographic expeditions feature in a new free exhibition at Duncan’s gallery in New South Wales from 1st to 10th November. Here are some of the images on show…
Kenya issues smart ID cards to protect fishing and forests
Lamu, KenyaThomson Reuters Foundation Fishing communities on Kenya’s north coast will be the first to benefit from “smart” identity cards aimed at distinguishing genuine fishermen and loggers from poachers who raid waters and cut down mangroves vital to ease climate change threats. Each government-issued Mvuvi card – the word means “fisher” in Swahili – features […]
ESSAY: BAGHDADI’S DEATH IS A HUGE BLOW TO ISLAMIC STATE, BUT HISTORY SUGGESTS IT WON’T GUARANTEE A SAFER WORLD
In an article first published on The Conversation, Australian academic GREG BARTON, chair in global Islamic politics at Deakin University’s Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, looks at the ramifications of death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi…