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Kenyan minister orders halt to construction of US Ebola facility
Decision comes after Aden Duale was held in contempt for ignoring previous high court ruling to stop work
Kenya’s health minister has told a court he has ordered a halt to preparations for a US-run Ebola quarantine facility, after being held in contempt for ignoring a previous stop-work order.
Many
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Sweat, tears and camaraderie as 20,000 runners take on world’s largest ultramarathon
For one day every June, South Africa’s searing racial inequality seems to melt away at Comrades race
In the early morning dark, thousands of runners waited, jostling with anticipation. South Africa’s national anthem rang out. Then the haunting swell of Shosholoza, first sung by Zimbabwean migrant workers in South Africa’s goldmines. Finally, that unmistakable, spine-tingling
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Ghana conference calls for formal apology for transatlantic slave trade
Global framework for reparatory justice adopted at event includes demand for compensation and debt relief
More than money: the logic of slavery reparations
A global framework for reparatory justice has been adopted at a conference in Ghana, as African and
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CDC to tap $107m in emergency funding for Ebola response in DRC and Uganda
Number of people infected now tops 1,000 though health officials say the global risk remains low
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Barbados prime minister announces manifesto for slavery reparations
Updated document, which emphasises harm done to African women, is being considered by other Caribbean countries
Barbados’s prime minister, Mia Mottley, has announced a new manifesto from Caribbean leaders asserting the “moral, ethical and legal case” for reparations over damage caused by hundreds of years of enslavement.
Mottley was speaking at a “historic”
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Whistleblower investigating Ecuadorian president’s family business was murdered, activists say
Monika Silva Koniuszek died from a blow to the head and strangulation, a postmortem found, despite government claim of suicide
Campaigners in Ecuador say a Polish anti-corruption activist who investigated allegations against the family business of the country’s rightwing president
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Montreal mayor calls for end to random police checks amid racial profiling investigation
City’s police force faces investigation of 16 officers accused of disproportionately targeting Black and Arab residents
Montreal’s mayor has called for a halt to random police checks as the city’s police force grapples with an internal investigation into racism and racial profiling by 16 officers.
Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada told reporters last week that her husband, who is
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Canadian healthcare staff decry ‘cruel hoax’ after scam email promises paid day off
Unions condemn ‘insensitive’ internal cybersecurity test sent to healthcare workers in Newfoundland and Labrador
For years, healthcare staff in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador have felt overworked and underappreciated. Turnover, burnout and thinning resources were pushing workers in the sector to a breaking point.
So when the email titled “June Holiday” arrived
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‘Institutional threat’: election of far-right leader raises fears for democracy in Colombia
Trump-admiring Abelardo de la Espriella has vowed to ‘disembowel’ the left and kill criminals like ‘rats and cockroaches’
When more than 20 women accused a Colombian evangelical pastor in 2012 of sexually abusing them, the defendant’s lawyer sought to discredit the allegations by telling the court that they were “trepadoras” – a pejorative term meaning social climbers.
He
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Far-right millionaire wins Colombia’s razor-tight presidential election
Leftwing opponent alleges vote count irregularities after Trump-endorsed lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella secures narrow majority
A Trump-admiring far-right millionaire lawyer and self-styled “outsider” has defeated a leftwing senator by a razor-thin margin to win Colombia’s presidential runoff, in an election that promises to mark a dramatic shift in the country’s decades-long armed
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