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Mauritanian flags. Screenshot of theAfrica24 YouTube channel In the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, seven candidates, including the country’s current president, Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, will face each other in the first round of presidential elections on June 29, 2024. Ghazouani has been in power since August 2019. The Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) announced the election date. Voters had until May 29, 2024, to register on the electoral roll. Out of a population of over 4 million, the number of voters at the 2019 presidential elections, which led to Mohamed Ould Ghazouani’s fi...
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Hong Kong government file image via HKFP. Less than two weeks after a Hong Kong High Court convicted 14 pro-democracy politicians of “conspiracy to commit subversion” in the city’s landmark national security case involving 47 pro-democracy advocates, three overseas judges of the Court of Final Appeal handed in their resignations. As a former British colony, Hong Kong continued adopting the Common Law system after its handover to China in 1997. The appointment of non-permanent judges (NPJs) from other Common Law jurisdictions is a mechanism to ensure the independence of the city’s judiciary und...
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The image is a screenshot of Russia Post. Taken with permission Kirill Shamiev and Ksenia Luchenko, both Visiting Fellows at the European Council on Foreign Relations, wrote for the Russia Post about the role of the Russian Orthodox Church in Putin’s regime and the full-scale Invasion of Ukraine. Global Voices republished the article, edited for clarity, with the permission from Russia Post. Recently, Metropolitan Kirill Pokrovsky, who heads up the Synodal Department for Cooperation with the Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies, said on the air of Russia's main state-run TV channel Rossiy...
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Cop Your XXL Merch Now XXL presents Inside Track, a biweekly podcast that shines the spotlight on some of hip-hop’s most influential industry executives, entrepreneurs and more. Hosted by XXL Editor-in-Chief Vanessa Satten and music executive Courtney “Courtney CL” Lowery, each episode will explore hip-hop through the eyes of people who have lived and breathed the culture. The inaugural episode features hip-hop industry veteran and current CEO and cofounder of 300 Elektra Entertainment, Kevin Liles. The Baltimore native’s hip-hop ties run deep. From 1999 to 2004, he served as the President of ...
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Show & Prove: BabyDrillWords: William E. Ketchum IIIEditor’s Note: This story appears in the Spring 2024 issue of XXL Magazine, on stands now. Not too many rising artists had their first tour overseas as an opening act for 21 Savage, received a congratulatory call from Future about their music moving around Atlanta, and fielded Instagram messages from singer Miley Cyrus, The Kid Laroi and Yeat asking to collaborate on new songs. Yet that’s the case for 22-year-old rapper BabyDrill. The ATL native has been rapping for less than three years, but his kill-streak rhymes and relentless intensity—al...
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Street mural of a woman making the ‘silence gesture.’ Image via Pxhere. License: CC0 Public domain. On the screen, there appears a man who's trying to sleep, but can't because of the noise from next door. He walks next door to his neighbor, who doesn't hear him at first. Then the neighbor responds with a gunshot. This isn't the script of a gag comic or a cartoon, but reality. During Mother's Day celebrations in Colombia, in the early morning of May 12, a 50-year-old man was murdered by his neighbors after asking them to turn down the volume of the music at their party. Such scenes are common i...
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Cop Your XXL Merch Now For decades, Virginia lyricist Mad Skillz has been a ghostwriter for some of your favorite MCs. While he keeps his clients close to the vest, he has a lot to say about the taboo topic. The rapper opens up to XXL about the stigma surrounding writing for other rappers, what the new generation thinks and the leaks that get people talking. I got into [ghostwriting] by accident. So, I can’t really speak for anybody else’s journey of how they end up in these sessions with these well-known rappers. Sometimes, it might be somebody hearing a song or hearing a few things. You migh...
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Rescuers arriving with the patient at the veterinarian. (Photo by Landy Rodríguez Acosta, used with permission.) This article was written by Landy Rodríguez Acosta for Periodismo de Barrio, then edited and republished in Global Voices under a media agreement. In November 2019, a community support group emerged via WhatsApp to protect the health and well-being of stray animals in Artemisa, western Cuba. Without an official name and administrator's profile, their actions were little known. They met occasionally and organized themselves as best they could. By the end of 2020, they were already kn...
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Viktor and Nadiia with their granddaughter Alina at their home in Hirnyk, Donetsk region. Photo courtesy of Ryan Carter. Used with permission Sirens, shelling, tears, destruction — these are the realities of an average day in a frontline area in the East of Ukraine. Donetsk region, more than half of which is currently occupied by Russia, is shelled 1,500–2,500 times almost daily. Much of this shelling targets residential buildings and critical infrastructure, such as water and electricity supply. Still, for many leaving their homes is not an option. While many do not leave out of necessity, fo...
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Collective fishing mission near Masinloc, Zambales. Photo by John Carlo Magallon. Source: Altermidya, used with permission Several groups led by Filipino fishers organized a sail mission towards the South China Sea (known locally as West Philippine Sea) on May 30 and 31 to challenge China’s four-month fishing ban. The annual fishing moratorium took effect on May 1 as China issued a warning that it will detain “trespassers” and other ships intruding on its maritime territories. According to Chinese state media outlets, the 3.5-month yearly fishing ban, which started in 1999, is an effort to “pr...
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