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Items by Katarzyna Rybarczyk
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Wrestling: An identity-shaping ritual among Sudan’s Nuba
Every week at the Haj Youssef stadium in the outskirts of Khartoum, Sudan, hundreds of people gather to watch Nuba wrestling, a tribal practice going back thousands of years. The Nuba are a group of 50 or more indigenous ethnic groups who inhabit the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan state…
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Mosul’s forgotten crisis: Orphans of the war against Daesh
When in 2014 Daesh fighters seized control of parts of Iraq’s territory, Mosul became the jihadists’ main bastion in the country. Following the takeover, Daesh began a campaign of terror against civilians. In 2016 the Iraqi army launched a military offensive to recapture the city and, after more than nine…