Has South Africa truly defeated apartheid? Essential weekend read from toe colleagues John Eligon Lynsey Chutel Lauren Leatherby Joao Silva📸
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Has South Africa Truly Defeated Apartheid?
w/Lynsey Chutel Lauren Leatherby
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I reached out to a group of university graduates in Gaza to see what happened to them in the war.

All told us they had lost loved ones. Two of their classmates were dead. And many feared they would be next.

Our story with Lauren Leatherby

More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza over the last 4.5 months of a brutal war.

They raised children and took care of older parents. They treated wounds, made pizza and put too much sugar in their tea — Here are some of the lives lost:

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Gazans are struggling to make sense of Israel’s evacuation orders, which, at times, seem to contradict themselves. Unreliable and spotty communication networks in Gaza make it even more challenging. The confusion can be a matter of life or death. nyti.ms/41AarPr

“We sleep fearing we might be dead” What 60 days in Gaza have felt like: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Earlier this week, a journalist in Gaza made one of the war's grimmest discoveries: four dead babies, their bodies decomposing on the beds in Al-Nasr Hospital where they had been left. This is the story of what happened: wapo.st/47GKLm8 [paywall free]

As the world gets older, Africa has the youngest, fastest growing population. A look at how the looming 'youthquake' is bringing seismic change, reshaping the continent and its place in the world.
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great story by Emma Bubola on a Denmark program that is demolishing thousands of apartments in 'non-Western' neighborhoods nytimes.com/2023/10/26/wor…

'You just keep evacuating, evacuating. Evacuate and go where exactly?' As Israel prepares to invade Gaza and orders 1 mil to leave their homes, women in the enclave spoke with mona el-naggar, Chevaz Clarke, Mark Boyer, Hanaan Sarhan. 🎦 in Gaza by Soliman Hijjy.

Help took more than 20 hours to arrive for some on Israel’s bloodiest day. Others died waiting.

Our reconstruction, via The New York Times nytimes.com/interactive/20…

'Where is the army?' Help took more than 20 hours to arrive for some in southern Israel on Saturday. Others died waiting. Here's how the slow arrival of security forces gave gunmen many hours to infiltrate more than 20 towns: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Ukraine’s counteroffensive has breached the first line of defense in some Russian positions in the south, with Kyiv’s forces recapturing the tiny village of Robotyne.

Progress has been grueling and slow, highlighting the enormous challenges ahead.
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Ukraine’s counteroffensive has breached Russian defenses, but progress has been grueling and slow. Mines, fresh Russian troops and worsening weather lie ahead.

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“We’re living in shock. We can’t absorb what’s happening to us,” Dr. Ashoor said. “The state wasn’t interested in this. Instead, they guzzled money, practiced corruption and fought political squabbles.” Aaron Boxerman & James Glanz nytimes.com/2023/09/16/wor…

Thousands have died in floods in Derna, Libya, where the city's position amplified the extreme flooding. Derna lies at the end of a narrow valley called a wadi, which worked as a funnel, forcing the rushing water into the center of the city.
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As Tom Mandala leaned out of the fifth-floor window of his burning apartment building in Johannesburg early Thursday, it felt as if the only decision left to make was how to die.

My latest from the scene of a horrific fire that killed at least 74 people. nytimes.com/2023/09/01/wor…

ICYMI: Yesterday was the culmination of 4 yrs of work by Max Siegelbaum as we finally released the Wage Theft Monitor.

It started in 2019 with a listening tour and shows the power of asking communities what they want journalists to investigate. 🧵

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Flying from NYC to the Yucatán and from California to Bolivia's Salar de Uyuní: pretty maps by Jonathan Corum showing where birds migrate for the winter and where they also face threats to their habitats. nytimes.com/interactive/20…