Brute violence against children earns Sudan, Congo, Haiti and East Asia spots on UN blacklist
The report for the first time put both Israeli forces and Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants on the blacklist for violating children’s rights in 2023 during Hamas’ October 7 surprise invasion of southern Israel and its massive military retaliation in Gaza that is ongoing.
How India PM Modi BJP’s complacency propped opposition in fierce caste, constitution politics
After a decade of electoral near-invincibility that combined economic success with a narrative of Hindu supremacy, Modi’s party was reduced to 240 seats nationwide. He was able to form a third government only with the help of allies, some of whom have a reputation for political fickleness.
South Africa’s ANC strikes deal for national unity government with opposition, to elect president
ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula told reporters the main opposition Democratic Alliance and others had agreed on the “fundamental” principle of forming a “government of national unity” with the ANC, but he noted that finer details of the agreement had not been finalised yet.
Visa racism: Even when Africans want to visit Europe legally rejection rates remain sky-high
The disproportionate rejection rates – 10 per cent higher in Africa than the global average – hinder trade, business and educational partnerships at the expense of African economies, according to an April study from UK-based migration consultancy firm Henley & Partners.
Kenya budget reins in deficit at 3.3 per cent, aims to cushion fragile economic growth and recovery
The East African country sold a $1.5 billion international bond in February at a premium to fund the buyback of a large portion of a $2 billion bond maturing in June. Before that, investors had feared Kenya might not be able to repay the bond due to its strained public finances.
Man jailed for January 6 riots on Capitol Hill leads pro-Trump armed national militia from prison
Lang is working with a network of election deniers and conspiracists to promote the North American Patriot and Liberty Militia or Napalm for short. The group officially launched last week with 50 state-specific militia groups on Telegram.
Composition of South Africa’s unity government to be known at new parliament first sitting
Parties are under pressure to conclude negotiations by Thursday to fulfil the constitutional requirement to swear in lawmakers and elect the president within 14 days of election results being declared.
Food slaves: Since AGRA’s launch, African biodiversity has been severely lost, farmers tricked into dumping nutrient-dense, drought-resistant crops
In 1999, Monsanto’s CEO Robert Shapiro bragged that the company planned to control “three of the largest industries in the world – agriculture, food and health – that now operate as separate businesses. But there are a set of changes that will lead to their integration.” Today these chemical manufacturers control a huge percentage of the world’s food supply.
Cambridge University ‘loans’ 39 traditional artifacts to Uganda in a major act of restitution
The objects, selected by Ugandan curators, represent a small fraction of about 1,500 ethnographic objects from Uganda that Cambridge has owned for a century. Cambridge acquired most as donations from private collections, and many were given by an Anglican missionary active in Uganda in the 1890s and early 20th century.
Congress probe unearths how US former director of health hatched plans to engineer monkeypox virus capable of killing millions
A new interim report describes the obstruction and secrecy around the mpox proposal as a case study of how the institute “oversees and accounts for the monitoring of potentially dangerous gain-of-function research of concern.”
