Indigenous communities —sometimes in remote settings— having more limited access to healthcare services, as well as semi- or uncontacted peoples, are among the vulnerable groups in the face of the progress of the coronavirus pandemic. Experts and organizations say the consequences of coronavirus expansion in these populations could be fatal. In this article, we look at the example of Australian Aboriginal peoples, and talk to Survival International for the specific case of uncontacted tribes. Keep reading

Who are the Macedonians, the inhabitants of North Macedonia? Bulgarians will say that they are a division of their community, an artificial creation of late Yugoslav leader Tito. Most Macedonians, however, will point to an earlier identity division in the last decades of the 19th century, born in the geographical region of Macedonia. Some will go further, to differences in tribes that reach the periods of Cyril and Methodius —the creators of the Slavic alphabet— or Alexander the Great. A few, the most exaggerated, will claim that all Europeans are actually Slavs. In North Macedonia, after so much forcing reality, after so much looking for references for political odysseys, its inhabitants do not know what they are, or at least they lack a unified discourse about the genesis of their identity. Keep reading

Sinn Féin emerged for the first time in history the largest party in a general election in the Republic of Ireland, overtaking the two centre-right parties (Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael) that have dominated Irish politics since independence. The republican party has won the vote under a left-wing manifesto that proposes to begin a gradual process towards “securing” a referendum on Irish unity. Keep reading