Guantanamo: While Trump vowed ‘we gonna load it up with some bad dudes’ there’s slim hope Biden will close it

Guantanamo: While Trump vowed ‘we gonna load it up with some bad dudes’ there’s slim hope Biden will close it

All told, although President Barack Obama’s administration poured far more energy into the effort to close Gitmo than his predecessor George W. Bush’s administration had, Obama failed during his terms in office to do so. In his last year, Obama continued to push hard with the rallying cry, “Let’s go...

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Fear, corruption and neglect push Ghanaians to bury evidence of illegal fishing, abuse on Chinese vessels

Fear, corruption and neglect push Ghanaians to bury evidence of illegal fishing, abuse on Chinese vessels

On July 5, Ghanaian fisherman Essien went missing from the Meng Xin 15 trawler off Accra coast. Is brother James says that Essien had dinner with the rest of the crew of the Chinese vessel before they headed back to their cubicle to sleep. The next morning, he was nowhere...

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How Chinese terror and unbridled greed decimating Ghanaian fish resources, locals reduced to slaves

How Chinese terror and unbridled greed decimating Ghanaian fish resources, locals reduced to slaves

When it comes to abuse and corruption on Chinese fishing vessels in Ghana, Bright Tsai Kweku has seen it all. He has seen Chinese crew treating local fishermen like “slaves”, he says. “They beat them, they spit on them, they kick them,” Kweku says. “I have been through that before.”...

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