Photos: Afghan villagers turn to gold-panning to sustain livelihoods
In rugged Hindu Kush mountains, Afghan men pan for gold dust, forging livelihoods amid scarce economic opportunities.
![From left to right: Mona Al-Mashharawi, Mahmoud Shamiya, and Muhannad Qasem are among a generation of young Palestinians whose education, careers, and futures have been severely disrupted by Israel's genocidal war on Gaza and the closure of its borders. [Screengrab/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/s1-1775386768.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
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Cuba restores power after 29-hour blackout amid US oil blockade
The national power grid comes back on after Cuba’s 10 million people were plunged into darkness overnight.
How Carney’s ‘build fast’ push divides Canada’s Indigenous peoples
Some First Nations are challenging Carney’s resource-extraction plans to strengthen Canadian economy from US threats.
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Republic of Congo election: Who is running and what’s at stake?
Analysts say Congo Brazzaville’s election are a mere formality as President Sassou Nguesso is set to extend his rule.
![Supporters of outgoing President Denis Sassou Nguesso, who is running for re-election, take part in a campaign rally before the March 15 presidential election, in Brazzaville, Congo Republic, March 7, 2026 [Roch Bouka/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026-03-13T082734Z_191928901_RC2OZJA3M43Z_RTRMADP_3_CONGOREPUBLIC-ELECTION-PREVIEW-1773409672.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Poor in oil-rich Republic of Congo: As election looms, youth want change
In an oil-producing country where 60 percent of people are under 25, nearly half the population lives in poverty.
‘Nothing changes’: Four decades in power, Congo’s Nguesso seeks a new term
Is Brazzaville’s stability a result of gradual democratic consolidation or carefully organised political continuity?
‘It’s segregation’: Row over S Africa’s multimillion-dollar crime wall plan
As Cape Town plans security measures along N2 highway, shack dwellers say the project will separate the poor from rich.
Cuba’s economy on edge: Fuel shortages and rising hardship
Havana’s streets have changed as a US fuel blockade restricts the movements of vehicles and people and hits businesses.
Zimbabwean child waste-pickers work ‘hazardous’ jobs to help their families
Boys as young as six scout for scrap metal to sell in a country where 14 percent of children have jobs.
Displaced Sudanese women caught up in war suffer wretched Ramadan
Women in Sudan’s Al-Sarraf camp face hunger and disease during a desperate holy month.
![Mawaheb Ibrahim, a diabetic survivor who lost her mother and sister to shelling in El Fasher, struggles to care for orphaned children without food or medication at the Al-Sarraf camp in Al-Gedaref. [Al-Jazeera/screengrab]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Screenshot-2026-02-25-172735-1772029691.png?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
California mulls a billionaire tax, revealing a deeply divided state
Billionaires threaten to leave the state to avoid paying a tax that would replace the US government’s cuts to Medicaid.
