April 19, 2025

LONG READ African athletes find their feet in Vietnam’s marathon running boom A surge in marathons and lucrative prize money has attracted runners from East Africa to Vietnam, but becoming a champion is not without challenges. Competitors in the men’s marathon at the Southeast Asian Games in Hanoi, Vietnam, on May 19, 2022 [Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters]…

US judge rules Rumeysa Ozturk must be transferred from Louisiana to Vermont Court says detained pro-Palestine student has shown ‘significant evidence’ violations to her constitutional rights. People gather in Somerville, Massachusetts, on March 26 to demand the release of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish student at Tufts University [Michael Casey/AP Photo] By Al Jazeera StaffPublished On 19…