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US and EU critical minerals project could displace thousands in DRC – report
Global Witness says plan to upgrade railway line to Angola puts up to 1,200 buildings at risk of demolition
Up to 6,500 people are at risk of being displaced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure project funded by the EU and the US, amid a global race to secure supplies of copper, cobalt and other “critical minerals”,
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Uganda stops granting refugee status for Eritreans, Somalis and Ethiopians
Government once seen as progressive on migration says aid cuts to blame for excluding countries ‘not experiencing war’
The Ugandan government has stopped granting asylum and refugee status to people from Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia, citing severe funding shortfalls for the significant policy shift.
Hillary Onek, Uganda’s minister for refugees, announced that the government would
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Ghana’s Ibrahim Mahama first African to top annual art power list
Artist who once draped Barbican in brightly coloured fabric says he is humbled by recognition in ArtReview rankings
The Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama has become the first African to be named the most influential figure in the art world in
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British troops accused of human rights violations and sexual abuse in Kenya
Kenyan parliament says UK army training unit ‘dismissed most complaints as false, without publishing its findings’
A report by the Kenyan parliament into the conduct of troops stationed at a British military base close to the town of Nanyuki in Kenya has alleged human rights violations, environmental destruction and sexual abuse by British soldiers.
The inquiry into the British
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Whistleblower accuses Foreign Office of ‘censoring’ warning of Sudan genocide
Exclusive: Analyst claims UK officials deleted alert to threat of genocidal violence by paramilitaries to protect UAE
Warnings of a possible “genocide” in Sudan were removed from a UK risk assessment by Foreign Office officials, according to a whistleblower whose testimony raises fresh concern over British
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Student describes ‘horror show’ ICE deportation to Honduras at Thanksgiving
Any Lucia López Belloza, 19, was detained at Boston airport while on the way to see family in Austin for a surprise trip
Any Lucia López Belloza had not seen her parents and two little sisters since starting her first semester at Babson College, near Boston in August. A family friend gave her plane tickets so she could fly home to Austin and surprise them for Thanksgiving.
The
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Killing of survivors sparks outrage – but entire US ‘drug boat’ war is legally shaky
Pentagon’s Law of War manual clearly prohibits attack, but justification for whole campaign also faces tough questions
Graphic depictions of two survivors being killed by a second US military strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug ferrying boat have provoked outrage where previously there was none – or at least relatively little.
A firestorm of controversy has greeted a recent
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House Democrats release new images of Epstein’s private Caribbean island
Images and videos taken in 2020, a year after he died in jail, show the late sex offender’s home
House Democrats released
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Colombia’s president warns Trump: ‘Do not wake the jaguar’ with threats of military strikes
Gustavo Petro responded to intimations by US president of military strikes on Colombian soil to fight drug trafficking
Colombia’s president has warned Donald Trump that he risked “waking the jaguar” after the US leader suggested that any country he believed was making
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Pete Hegseth says he ‘didn’t stick around’ to watch second strike on alleged drug boat as Democrats slam administration over attacks – as it happened
Defense secretary says he ‘moved on to my next meeting’ as sensitive military operation was under way; top Democrat calls Hegseth ‘spineless’ and ‘a national embarrassment’. This blog is now closed.
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