カテゴリー: Africa
From an exuberant mountaineering woman to a boy representing unheard refugees, here are some of the brave individuals that gave us hopeNine years ago, Cecilia Llusco was one of 11 Indigenous women who made it to the summit of the 6,088 metre-high Huayn…
Wars have spread and intensified, with far-reaching impacts on global economic growth and food security, according to latest Conflict Intensity IndexThe proportion of the world engulfed by conflict has grown 65% – equivalent to nearly double the size o…
US and EU are supporting infrastructure projects in Angola, which has historically been closer to Russia and ChinaWhen Joe Biden travels to Angola on Sunday, it will be the first trip to an African country of his presidency and the first to the contine…
As attacks on the press rise, the House of Critical Voices offers sanctuary for media workers exposing abusesWith its nuclear bunker, textured walls and Bauhaus furniture, the former training school for combat troops might not look like a hotel, but fo…
Experts unsurprised at intensity of extreme weather but say damage wreaked shows how unprepared world isEurope floods – latest updatesPicturesque towns across central Europe are inundated by dirty flood water after heavy weekend rains turned tranquil s…
Heroin use has risen sharply across the country but in Pretoria, a programme of methadone and support is successfully helping people regain their livesIn the centre of the South African city of Pretoria, dozens of people mill around a dusty patch of la…
Report reveals how US Christians, Catholic schools and Islamists fight sex education, LGBTQ+ and equal rightsExtreme religious groups and political parties are targeting schools around the world as part of a coordinated and well-funded attack on gender…
In advance of the Paris Olympics and Paralympics, we speak to women who have faced conflict, discrimination and a lack of funding to stand as their countries’ only female qualifiers in their chosen fieldsOne of Alexandra Ndolo’s greatest career achieve…
Exclusive: critics say British American Tobacco’s plan to ‘flood a country in crisis with cheap cigarettes’ is ‘shameful’A subsidiary of British American Tobacco is lobbying the government of Pakistan to allow it to export 10-packs of cigarettes to war…
Greek court says it has no jurisdiction to hear case as disaster happened in international watersA Greek court has thrown out charges against nine Egyptian men accused of causing one of the Mediterranean’s deadliest shipwrecks, ruling it has no jurisdi…
Human-caused climate crisis brought soaring temperatures across Asia, from Gaza to Delhi to ManilaThe record-breaking heatwave that scorched the Philippines in April would have been impossible without the climate crisis, scientists have found. Searing …
For the first time Ukraine had the right conditions to make reparations to those subjected to crimes such as rape and sexual slavery. What would it take to replicate this globally?Across the world, women and girls continue to be plagued by gross human …
Tim Loughton had sanctions imposed on him in 2021 by Beijing, which has close ties to east African countryA former government minister who has had sanctions imposed on him by China has said he was detained and deported by Djibouti as a “direct conseque…
Rights chief also warns Britain will be ‘judged harshly by history for its failure to help prevent civilian slaughter in Gaza’The UK has been accused by Amnesty International of “deliberately destabilising” human rights on the global stage for its own …
Lords also press ministers to allow independent Rwanda monitoring as deportation bill returns to CommonsUK politics – latest updatesRishi Sunak’s government is considering concessions on the Rwanda deportation bill to allow exemptions for Afghans who s…