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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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Confidence runs high in London’s Little Morocco as Afcon glory beckons
Atlas Lions face Senegal in final of Africa Cup of Nations on Sunday and Moroccan diaspora scents victory
London’s Little Morocco is brimming with pride and anticipation. The Moroccan diaspora in North Kensington is in no doubt that on Sunday the Atlas Lions will triumph against Senegal in the final of the Africa Cup of Nations.
“There’s not just an excitement, it has completely
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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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Men charged with contract killing of Indigenous leader to go on trial in Peru
Prosecution over death of Quinto Inuma Alvarado seen as test of ability to curb attacks on environmental defenders
Five men are due to go on trial on Tuesday over the killing of an Amazonian Indigenous leader, in a legal case that could test whether Peru can hold perpetrators accountable for violence linked to illegal logging and drug
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Guatemala declares state of emergency after eight police officers killed in prison gang violence
President announces 30-day order after inmates also took 46 people hostage at three prisons
Guatemala’s president has declared a 30-day nationwide state of emergency to combat criminal gangs after authorities accused them of killing eight police officers and holding hostages at three prisons.
The killings occurred in the capital, Guatemal City, and surrounding areas a day after
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Chilean president declares state of catastrophe as wildfires kill at least 18
Fires blaze through 8,500 hectares, forcing 50,000 people to evacuate as firefighters struggle to extinguish flames
Wildfires raging across central and southern Chile have killed at least 18 people, scorched thousands of hectares of forest and destroyed scores of homes, authorities said, as the South American country swelters under a heatwave.
Chile’s president, Gabriel Boric,
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