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ActionAid to rethink child sponsorship as part of plan to ‘decolonise’ its work
Development charity’s new co-chairs signal shift from controversial sponsor a child scheme launched in 1972 to long-term grassroots funding
Child sponsorship schemes that allow donors to handpick children to support in poor countries can carry racialised, paternalistic undertones and need to be transformed, the newly appointed co-chief executives of ActionAid UK said as they set out to
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Head of US Africa bureau urges staff to highlight US ‘generosity’ despite aid cuts
Email sent to diplomats by state department office’s new boss is labelled ‘racist’ after dismissing Africa as a priority
US diplomats have been encouraged to “unabashedly and aggressively” remind African governments about the “generosity” of the American people, according to a leaked email sent to staff in the US state department’s Bureau of African Affairs this January and obtained by
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‘Brazen’ political influence of rich laid bare as wealth of billionaires reaches $18.3tn, says Oxfam
Governments opting for oligarchy while brutally repressing protests over austerity and lack of jobs, charity report says
The world saw a record number of billionaires created last year, with a collective wealth of $18.3tn (£13.7tn), while global efforts stalled in the fight against poverty and hunger.
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Uganda’s president calls opponents 'terrorists' in victory speech
Yoweri Museveni wins seventh term but poll criticised by observers and rights groups over repression of opposition and internet blackout
Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, fresh from winning a seventh term in office at 81, said on Sunday that the opposition were “terrorists” who had tried to use violence to overturn the election results.
Official results showed Museveni
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Yoweri Museveni wins Ugandan election as opponent condemns ‘fake result’
Museveni’s opponent, Bobi Wine, alleges that members of polling staff were kidnapped and called for peaceful protests
Yoweri Museveni, has won the Ugandan election and his seventh term with more than 70% of the vote, state election authorities have said, amid an internet shutdown and claims of fraud by his opponent.
His opponent, a youthful musician known as Bobi Wine, condemned
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Sheinbaum defends transfer of Mexican cartel members amid efforts to appease Trump
Analysts warn that Trump will probably demand more action from Mexico to counter drug-trafficking groups
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has defended the latest transfer of 37 Mexican cartel operatives to the US as a “sovereign decision”, as her government strives to alleviate pressure from the Trump administration
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Trump says Canada should be grateful for ‘freebies’ it gets from the US
US president singles out Mark Carney day after prime minister warned world is undergoing geopolitical ‘rupture’
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Chile’s president-elect names staunch abortion opponent as gender equality minister
Far-right incoming president picked Judith Marín, who has publicly decried bills to decriminalise abortion, for the role
Chile’s incoming far-right presidentJosé Antonio Kast has named a vehement opponent of abortion who has repeatedly stated her support for life “from conception to natural death”
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Catholic cardinals warn US foreign policy under Trump risks global suffering
Church leaders cite Greenland threats, Venezuela action and aid cuts as undermining human dignity and peace
Three cardinals in the US Catholic church have criticized the Trump administration’s foreign policy, saying its push to obtain or otherwise seize
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Colombian ex-paramilitary leader jailed for crimes against Indigenous groups
Salvatore Mancuso given 40-year sentence, which could be reduced after truth and reparation activities
A Colombian court has sentenced a former paramilitary leader to 40 years in prison for crimes committed against Indigenous communities in the province of La Guajira, including homicides, forced disappearances and the displacement of people from 2002 to 2006.
The special tribunal
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