Category: World
Miss South Africa contestant faces backlash over Nigerian father
A South African beauty pageant contestant with a Nigerian father has been subjected to relentless online abuse and interrogations of her right to compete for [more…]
Children ‘at death’s door’ as famine declared in Sudanese refugee camp
Famine has been declared in a Sudanese displacement camp in the besieged city of El Fasher. About 600,000 people are estimated to be living in [more…]
Up to seven reportedly dead in Nigeria after clashes between police and citizens
As many as seven people have died, according to reports, after clashes between Nigerian security personnel and citizens on the first day of a weeklong [more…]
Stephen Lawrence’s body to be returned to UK 31 years after murder
Stephen Lawrence’s body will be returned to the UK from Jamaica 31 years after his racist murder, his mother, Doreen, has said. In a statement [more…]
Anger mounts over environmental cost of Google datacentre in Uruguay
Google’s plans to build a datacentre in Uruguay have angered environmentalists, who say the project will release thousands of tonnes of carbon dioxide and hazardous waste. Uruguay’s [more…]
Guinea court finds former dictator guilty in stadium massacre trial
A court in Guinea has found the former dictator Moussa Dadis Camara and seven other military commanders guilty of crimes against humanity in a long-awaited [more…]
Nigerian singer, actor and activist Onyeka Onwenu dies aged 72
Onyeka Onwenu, the singer, actor, broadcaster and activist whose love ballads and songs about women’s rights were a soothing balm during Nigeria’s rocky 1980s and [more…]
Somalia arrests another journalist as press clampdown intensifies
The arrest of a journalist for reporting on drug use in the Somali military is the latest incident in an apparent clampdown on critical reporting [more…]
Venezuela protesters target Hugo Chávez statues amid disputed election
As protests over Venezuela’s disputed presidential election spread across the country, opposition supporters have focused their fury on president Nicolás Maduro’s predecessor and political mentor, [more…]
Son of El Chapo pleads not guilty in Chicago as mystery cloaks cartel arrests
Joaquín Guzmán López, the son of Sinaloa cartel co-founder Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, has pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges in federal court [more…]
