Annette Ekin

‘An empty seat at the table’: Christmas without Shireen Abu Akleh

She was a renowned journalist, but to her niece, Shireen was a Christmas-loving aunt and the ‘backbone’ of the family. Each year, as Christmas approached, Lina Abu Akleh would look forward to spending time with her aunt. Lina and her siblings – an…

‘They silenced her’: The fight for justice for Shireen Abu Akleh

Family members, colleagues and lawyers explain why they are pursuing justice for the veteran journalist. The Hague, Netherlands – On a cloudy Tuesday morning Al Jazeera submitted the results of a six-month investigation to the International Criminal…

What is in Al Jazeera dossier for the ICC on Abu Akleh’s killing?

Testimonies in the dossier show that Israel’s killing of the reporter has led to widespread, crippling fear among Palestinian journalists about their safety. The Hague, the Netherlands – A dossier submitted by Al Jazeera to the International Criminal…

Al Jazeera takes the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh to the ICC

Network says evidence it presented overturns claims by Israeli authorities that the Palestinian journalist was killed in a crossfire. The Hague, the Netherlands – Al Jazeera Media Network has submitted a formal request to the International Criminal…

Belgium v Morocco: Can’t choose ‘between my father and my mother’

In the Belgian capital, some residents of Moroccan heritage say it is ‘hard to choose’ a side in the upcoming match. Brussels, Belgium – On a warm, blue-skied Sunday afternoon, Aït Ahmed Abdelouhad, 46, was kicking a football around a small concrete…

Morocco fans in Belgium elated over World Cup win

Many who gathered at a youth centre in Brussels say Morocco’s victory over Belgium shows the team is there to win. Brussels, Belgium – When Morocco scored its second goal and secured its victory over Belgium at this year’s World Cup, a crowded youth…

Cities that connect people and nature are a post-pandemic priority, conference hears

Speakers at a panel at the two-day Research and Innovation Days event presented proposals for new urban design projects that emphasise wellbeing, mental health and strengthening social ties across generations in the recovery period following the…

Five things to know about: Mixing and matching coronavirus vaccines

The measure has been introduced by France and Germany for people who received a first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine but are in age groups for which that vaccine is no longer recommended in those countries due to rare instances of blood clotting…

Q&A: Climate monitoring, pandemic insight, decomposition – what insects do for us

Dr Solodovnikov tells us how exploring bug biodiversity through systematic entomology – the evolutionary classification of insects – is critical for humans to have a less biased view of what he calls our ‘planet of insects’. A study last year showed…

The children colonial Belgium stole from African mothers

Monique Bitu Bingi, 71, has never forgotten how it happened. It was 1953 when the white colonials came for her in Babadi, a village in the Kasai region of what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), then a Belgian colony. She was four,…

Why did a hazing in Belgium lead to a Black student’s death?

Brussels, Belgium – On the morning of Tuesday, December 4, 2018, 20-year-old Sanda Dia was dressed in a white robe, selling roses on a cobbled street in the historic centre of Leuven, a quaint student city that is home to Belgium’s largest and oldest…

2021: Beyond coronavirus - what’s in store for science in the year ahead?

VACCINE ROLLOUT To vaccinate people, supply chain disruptions must be fixed – Prof. Gyöngyi Kovács ‘Now that we have vaccines, it’s time to think about vaccination – and that’s a massive effort with regards to securing temperature control from…

We ultimately should be able to make a pan-coronavirus vaccine, says theoretical epidemiologist

Prof. Gupta was speaking on a digital panel at the European Research and Innovation Days on 22 September along with other scientists to discuss how they’re steering their frontier research areas to address challenges brought on by the pandemic. Prof.…

‘So far, so good’: The view from inside a coronavirus vaccine trial

After nearly two decades of working in vaccine development, seeing the subject of her work – coronavirus – in the news every single day is a first for her. ‘It's very exciting and very motivational, but there is a lot of pressure,’ she said. Dr…

Peter Piot: “Solo estamos al comienzo de la pandemia de coronavirus”

Estamos solo al comienzo de la pandemia de coronavirus, aunque la segunda ola podría adoptar una forma distinta de la primera. Lo afirma el veterano virólogo Peter Piot, que ha pasado los últimos 40 años siguiéndoles la pista a distintos virus y…

Are K-pop and BTS fans a new force for social justice?

Amid Black Lives Matter protests in the United States, K-pop fans are being hailed as a new force in politics and social justice. In recent weeks, they flooded a Dallas police intelligence app trying to collect “illegal activity from the protests”…

Q&A: ‘We are only at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic’ – Prof. Peter Piot

Prof. Piot, who helped discover Ebola at age 27 and has led the fight against HIV and AIDS, contracted coronavirus earlier this year. The director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the UK, and a special advisor on coronavirus…

A day on the Polarstern: studying climate change up close

We’re on a big research icebreaker, which is doing something unusual – it is not moving. (Currently) we are at around 87 (degrees) north, and (about) 95 (degrees) east, drifting northwest. The crew is maintaining the ship, which is a big…

What’s the most urgent action we need to take in 2020?

Horizon asked a selection of scientists featured in the magazine last year for their opinion on priorities for 2020. Declare a global planetary emergency – Sandrine Dixson-Declève ‘2020 is a super-year for international policy action,’ said Sandrine…

In a picture: ‘Not enough people are aware of this monster’

We scientists are (just) starting to learn about this type of fire - smouldering fires. (They happen on) peatlands, beautiful ecosystems with very diverse fauna and flora, which play important roles in regulating water, climate and storing carbon.…