The Hope Probe: UAE's mission to Mars
In July 2020, UAE’s Hope Probe will blast off from Japan to study Mars. This week, Mohsen Al Alwahdi, the Mission Systems Engineer at Dubai’s Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre tells host Suhail Rathe...
16 Juli 202017min
USA: The world's epicentre of the coronavirus
The United States of America is setting grim records. The number of daily cases of the coronavirus in the US are ahead of every other country in the world. It took the US over 3 months to reach 1 mill...
9 Juli 202022min
How do you solve the great Nile Dam dispute?
The Nile is Egypt and Egypt, for many, is the Nile. For over 8,000 years, this historic River has nurtured civilization. But now, Cairo says that’s under threat. Hundreds of kilometres upstream, Ethio...
2 Juli 202024min
Should internet access be declared a human right?
On the 1st of October 2019 mass protests spread through Iraq. People demanded an end to widespread corruption and access to basic services, like water and electricity and access to jobs. Within days h...
25 Juni 202018min
Who will help the abandoned Ethiopian workers in Lebanon?
In Beirut, a white saloon car comes to a swift halt outside the Ethiopian Embassy in the south west of the city. A woman climbs out, and the car speeds off. The Ethiopian woman is one of many domestic...
18 Juni 202016min
George Floyd and how social media is changing social justice
On the evening of May 25th, George Floyd Jr walked into a shop in Minneapolis and tried to use a $20 note. Within half an hour, his limp body was loaded into an ambulance. What happened in between has...
11 Juni 202024min
Will coronavirus wipe out refugee camps?
The Coronavirus has spread around the world … infecting millions of people in nearly every country. As doctors and scientists race to discover a vaccine, prevention measures are promoted. It’s agreed ...
4 Juni 202015min
Man vs Mosquito: The global battle against Malaria
There are 228 million cases worldwide every year. Many of them are fatal. It's for this reason, governments, international organisations and the UN spend billions trying to stop a disease that has pla...
28 Maj 202016min
