‘History repeating’: Amazon base in Cape Town splits Indigenous groups
Building work is quiet, for now, on £200m project that pits different visions of South Africa’s future against one another Smoke curls into the air,...
Month : May 2022
UN confirms death of one of last Rwandan genocide fugitives
Phénéas Munyarugarama is second person wanted for their involvement in 1994 mass killings to die One of the last five fugitives wanted for his role...
‘I thought the UK was a good country’: Sudan massacre refugee faces removal to Rwanda
Mohammed is among first asylum seekers to face removal under Home Office’s controversial scheme It took Mohammed more than three years and a journey of...
US supreme court abortion reversal would be global ‘catastrophe’ for women
If Roe v Wade is overturned, it will encourage anti-choice groups – particularly in the developing world, activists warn The probable demise of abortion as...
Mexican farmers demand redress for illegal mining and violence on their land
Owners of community land bought shares to join annual meeting of Fresnillo, a Mexican FTSE 100 company Mexican farmers have travelled to London to demand...
Canada: trial of white men who killed two Indigenous hunters in 2020 begins
Roger Bilodeau and his son Anthony Bilodeau believed that Jacob Sansom and Maurice Cardinal were thieves, court hears Two white Canadian men followed and then...
The ‘Spider-Man’ of Sudan: masked activist becomes symbol of resistance
Dressed in red and blue, ‘Spidey’ is a fixture at protests against the military regime – and the subject of a new Guardian documentary Violence...
Clashes in Tripoli as would-be prime minister attempts to claim power
Fathi Bashagha forced to withdraw in the face of opposition from Libya’s military Fighting broke out in Tripoli after one of the two rival Libyan...
Rejection of Arctic mine expansion bid offers hope for narwhal population
Conservationists and Inuit community relieved at decision on Canadian iron mine that threatened ‘extirpation’ of cetacean The expansion of an iron ore mine in the...
Biden reverses Trump withdrawal of US army trainers from Somalia
Up to 500 special forces advisers will train Somali forces to combat growing threat of al-Shabaab militants, says White House The US will send up...
