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Global framework for reparatory justice adopted at landmark conference in Ghana | Reparations and reparative justice

A global framework for reparatory justice has been adopted at a conference in Ghana.Heads of state and government and other officials formally approved the...

CDC to tap $107m in emergency funding for Ebola response in DRC and Uganda | Trump administration

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will tap $107m in emergency funding for Ebola outbreak response in the Democratic Republic of the...

South African men sentenced in ‘world’s largest’ rhino horn trafficking case | South Africa

Two traffickers of rhino horns have been sentenced by a South African court in what police said was the world’s largest such case, partly...

South African politician Julius Malema given five-year jail term for gun offence | South Africa

The South African leftwing politician Julius Malema has been sentenced to five years in prison for firing a rifle in the air at a...

More than £1bn pledged for Sudan as humanitarian crisis deepens | Global development

More than £1bn (€1.15bn) has been pledged for war-ravaged Sudan at a conference in Berlin, eclipsing the funding target organisers had set to help...

Suspicion surrounds death of US influencer Ashly Robinson in Zanzibar | Tanzania

Ashly Robinson, a US lifestyle influencer, died last week while on vacation in the Tanzanian islands of Zanzibar with her boyfriend, Joe McCann. Robinson’s...

Justice denied: why families of apartheid victims are still searching for answers | South Africa

Darkness had fallen on 27 June 1985 when Fort Calata, Matthew Goniwe, Sicelo Mhlauli and Sparrow Mkonto set off on the 150-mile drive back...

UK to call for end to Sudan bloodshed at Berlin talks on third anniversary of war | Sudan

The British foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, will urge Sudan’s warring parties to “cease bloodshed” during a major conference on Wednesday, which analysts believe is...

Survivors ask why busy market bombed in Nigerian anti-terror campaign | Nigeria

Survivors and observers have questioned the Nigerian military’s rationale for a devastating airstrike on a busy market that killed as many as 200 people,...

Anger at ‘bloody unacceptable’ efforts to end Sudan’s war as conflict enters fourth year | Global development

Efforts to end Sudan’s catastrophic war have been criticised as “unacceptable” by the country’s top UN official as a series of new reports confirm...

Chagos Islands treaty is now ‘impossible to agree at political level’, UK minister says | Chagos Islands

A treaty over ceding sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius has become “impossible to agree at political level” and the corresponding bill will...

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