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‘We are in complete shock’: Israel bombs last fully functioning hospital in North Gaza
by Olivia Rosane Israeli forces bombed the last fully functioning hospital in northern Gaza early April 13 morning, killing at least three people, including a 12-year-old boy. The missile attack on al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City is the latest in what has been described as Israel's "campaign of genocide" to systematically attack Gaza's healthcare infrastructure, which has damaged 33 out of Gaza's 36 hospitals. The Episcopal Diocese of...
UN forum on People of African Descent examines reparations and AI challenge
The fourth session of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent opened on April 14 at United Nations headquarters in New York. Organized by the UN human rights office, the week-long session “Africa and people of African descent: United for reparatory justice in the age of Artificial Intelligence,” will echo global calls for reparations for the historical legacies of enslavement and...
India launches joint naval drills with African states
The exercises aim to boost collaboration and develop solutions to address maritime challenges in the Indian Ocean India has announced the start of new naval exercises alongside nine African nations, aimed at fostering collaboration and addressing maritime challenges in the Indian Ocean region. The Africa India Key Maritime Engagement (AIKEYME) exercises began on April 13 in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, the Indian Navy...
Yet another Puerto Rico blackout heightens anger over power grid privatization
The for-profit operators of Puerto Rico’s power grid and the government officials who agreed to the privatization scheme faced fresh backlash April 17 after the U.S. territory was plunged into darkness yet again, leaving 1.4 million people without electricity and hundreds of thousands without water. The blackout began April 16 after “energy plants across the island unexpectedly shut down,” Reuters reported, citing Genera...
U.S. airstrikes on Yemeni factory kill six civilians
The United States has carried out more deadly airstrikes on Yemen as Washington continues its military aggression against civilians in the Arab country. At least two airstrikes targeted a factory in the Bani Matar district, west of the capital Sana’a, on April 13. The strikes killed at least six civilians and wounded nearly two dozen. U.S. warplanes also carried out two airstrikes on...
Iran: Indirect talks with U.S. strictly limited to nuclear, sanctions issues
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has emphasized that the indirect negotiations between Tehran and Washington, hosted by Oman on April 12, were limited strictly to nuclear and sanctions-related issues. “If we take the exchange of letters that initiated the process leading to the indirect talks as the basis, there was nothing in it besides the nuclear issue,” Baghaei said...
Dilemmas of Humanity Conference discusses new framework for development in the Global South
Dozens of economists, intellectuals, and movement leaders have converged in São Paulo for the IV International Dilemmas of Humanity conference by Zoe Alexandra, The Peoples Dispatch The IV International Dilemmas of Humanity Conference: Perspectives for Social Transformation kicked off in São Paulo, Brazil, on April 7. The gathering, which ran until April 10, aimed to “discuss and propose concrete economic and social solutions to...
Senior Israeli diplomat removed from African Union summit
A high-ranking Israeli diplomat has been expelled from the annual summit of the African Union in Ethiopia due to a growing conflict regarding the Tel Aviv regime’s accreditation to the continental bloc. On April 7, Israeli ambassador to Addis Ababa Avraham Neguise had to walk out of the auditorium during the opening ceremony of the summit to commemorate the 31st anniversary of the...
Pro-Palestine activists facing deportation condemn German state repression
Two Irish nationals and a U.S. citizen, who have recently been served with an order asking them to leave Germany over their participation in a pro-Palestinian university protest, have roundly dismissed accusations of anti-Semitism and indirect support for Hamas resistance movement. Kasia Wlaszczyk, a Polish culture worker, 31-year-old Irish artist Roberta Murray, and 27-year-old American social work student Cooper Longbottom,...
Tariffs may signal death certificate for Africa-U.S. trade but may also spur necessary change
The tariffs imposed by the Trump administration across the globe may be a death certificate signaling the end of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). “AGOA is finished. It is dead in the water,” said Alex Owino in Nairobi, according to Africa Confidential. Owino is a former advisor to Kenya’s treasury under President Uhuru Kenyatta. “AGOA will be...