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RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show
Up to 150,000 residents of El Fasher are missing since North Darfur capital fell to paramilitary Rapid Support Forces
The Sudanese city of El Fasher resembles a “massive crime scene”, with large piles of bodies heaped throughout its streets as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) work to destroy evidence of the scale of their massacre.
Six weeks after the RSF
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60,000 African penguins starve to death after sardine numbers collapse – study
Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds
More than 60,000 penguins in colonies off the coast of South Africa have starved to death as a result of disappearing sardines, a new paper has found.
More than 95% of the African penguins in two of the most important breeding colonies, on Dassen Island
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US considers wider sanctions on Sudanese army and RSF as ceasefire efforts falter
Trump envoy fails to secure deal as Norway prepares to host talks on how to restore civilian government in Sudan
The US is considering a much broader range of sanctions on the belligerents in the war in Sudan, in a tacit acknowledgment of the inability of the US envoy Massad Boulos to persuade the parties to accept a ceasefire.
Last week Donald Trump announced that work had begun
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US and EU critical minerals project could displace thousands in DRC – report
Global Witness says plan to upgrade railway line to Angola puts up to 1,200 buildings at risk of demolition
Up to 6,500 people are at risk of being displaced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure project funded by the EU and the US, amid a global race to secure supplies of copper, cobalt and other “critical minerals”,
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Uganda stops granting refugee status for Eritreans, Somalis and Ethiopians
Government once seen as progressive on migration says aid cuts to blame for excluding countries ‘not experiencing war’
The Ugandan government has stopped granting asylum and refugee status to people from Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia, citing severe funding shortfalls for the significant policy shift.
Hillary Onek, Uganda’s minister for refugees, announced that the government would
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“This is war”: Is Trump about to invade Venezuela? – podcast
Donald Trump has in recent months turned his attention to ousting Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro. But the US president and his secretary of war, Pete Hegseth, are under scrutiny over military strikes on suspected drug boats from Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea.
This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Guardian’s Tom Phillips about why people are accusing Trump of war
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Experts urge release of boat strike video as US admiral denies ‘kill them all’ order
Democrat Jim Himes calls footage ‘one of the most troubling scenes’ he’s observed in public service
Top Democratic and Republican lawmakers in Congress on Thursday said
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Student describes ‘horror show’ ICE deportation to Honduras at Thanksgiving
Any Lucia López Belloza, 19, was detained at Boston airport while on the way to see family in Austin for a surprise trip
Any Lucia López Belloza had not seen her parents and two little sisters since starting her first semester at Babson College, near Boston in August. A family friend gave her plane tickets so she could fly home to Austin and surprise them for Thanksgiving.
The
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Killing of survivors sparks outrage – but entire US ‘drug boat’ war is legally shaky
Pentagon’s Law of War manual clearly prohibits attack, but justification for whole campaign also faces tough questions
Graphic depictions of two survivors being killed by a second US military strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug ferrying boat have provoked outrage where previously there was none – or at least relatively little.
A firestorm of controversy has greeted a recent
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House Democrats release new images of Epstein’s private Caribbean island
Images and videos taken in 2020, a year after he died in jail, show the late sex offender’s home
House Democrats released