Peru imposes, then withdraws curfew to quell price protests
LIMA, Peru—Peru’s president on April 5 lifted a curfew he had decreed less than a day earlier in the country’s capital and its main...
Sri Lanka: Mishandling of economic crisis triggers alarm over rights violations
The UN human rights office (OHCHR) on April 5 urged authorities in Sri Lanka to defuse tensions peacefully, after a state of emergency was...
The spread of Islam across the African continent
In early April, Muslims around the globe began Islam’s Holy Month of Ramadan, including East Africa’s Kenya where 10 percent of the population are...
‘There’s no freedom:’ African students fleeing Ukraine are being held in detention centers in the European Union
A 29-year-old Nigerian student was studying trade and economics in Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine, when war broke out. The student, who remained anonymous, spoke to...
‘We will continue all forms of resistance’ Military crackdown in Sudan continues, protestors remain undeterred
The strangeness of writing a column about Africa and being married to an African in the middle of a political, economic and social crisis...
Haitians protest rising insecurity; some burn a plane
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Haitians took to the streets March 29 to protest rising insecurity, with demonstrations turning violent in the southern city of Les Cayes where...
UK maternity scandal review finds 200 avoidable baby deaths
LONDON—A review into a scandal-hit British hospital group concluded March 30 that persistent failures in maternity care contributed to the avoidable deaths of more...
UN’s Bachelet hails ‘millions of voices’ tackling racial discrimination
More than two decades after the signing of the Durban Declaration and Program of Action (PoA)—the UN’s blueprint to tackle racism and other forms of discrimination—UN...
Rockets fired near base housing Turkish troops in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province
A number of rockets have rocked a military base in Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh, which houses Turkish military forces engaged in ongoing operations against...
Response plan launched to support 1.4 million Rohingya and Bangladeshis
“Robust and sustained international support” is again needed for Rohingya refugees and the Bangladeshi communities generously hosting them, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said...