‘We took our children and ran’: thousands displaced as Senegal’s 40-year-war crosses border
More than 6,ooo people have left their homes as renewed violence in the Casamance region spills into the Gambia It was late morning when the...
Month : March 2022
El Salvador locks down prisons after wave of 87 killings over weekend
Government declares state of emergency after arresting more than 600 gang suspects and ordering food restrictions The government of El Salvador said it had arrested...
Massacre at illegal cockfight in Mexico leaves 20 dead
Gunmen with assault rifles burst into event in western state of Michoacán long plagued by violence between drug cartels Mexican authorities have confirmed that 20...
‘Africa must be self-sufficient’: John Nkengasong on learning the deadly lessons of pandemics
The outgoing director of Africa Centres for Disease Control has seen Ebola, Aids and now Covid – and warns complacency is dangerous The past five...
Stars in Brazil voice fury as judge orders festival to ban ‘political demonstrations’
Electoral judge outlaws leftist ‘propaganda’ at Lollapalooza, months before October election Artists and celebrities in Brazil have voiced outrage after an electoral judge ordered one...
William and Kate: what matters is better future for people of Commonwealth
Royal couple say they are ‘committed to service’, which is not ‘telling people what to do’, at end of Caribbean tour The Duke and Duchess...
Eritrea’s Biniam Girmay makes history by winning Ghent-Wevelgem classic
• 21-year-old takes victory in Belgian classic race • Girmay becomes first Eritrean to win Word Tour race Biniam Girmay became the first rider from...
Chile: students force closure of Santiago schools over sexual harassment and violence
Unesco report finds that Covid school closures have made girls more vulnerable to gender-based violence Student strikes have forced a string of school closures across...
China Eastern plane crash: both black boxes found, all 132 on board dead
Searchers find flight data recorder buried 1.5 metres underground by impact, after earlier recovering cockpit voice recorder Both flight recorders or “black boxes” have been...
Canada bars its soldiers from joining Ukraine’s foreign legion
Military authorities fear any captured service members could be used as propaganda tool by Russia Canada has barred its soldiers from joining Ukraine’s “international brigade”...
