UNESCO was founded after World War II, with the belief that promoting cultural and scientific collaboration could reduce the threat of conflict. Last week, the US, one of the UN agency’s founding members, withdrew citing anti-Israel bias. As Robin Coningham explains, the US disengagement from UNESCO had already begun to bite, and its withdrawal is a worrying a step backwards for global co-operation.

Mozambique has experienced its first confirmed armed Islamist attack: earlier this month, 30 men struck three police stations in a northern town. People in the southern African nation have called the attackers “Al-Shabaabs”, though there’s no evidence the international terror group is to blame. Eric Morier-Genoud suggests that this incident must be understood with an eye on Mozambique’s history.

And, it was recently revealed that, after years of decline, hunger is on the rise again internationally. Leah Samberg considers how this reversal has happened.