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South Africa and Malaysia to launch campaign to protect justice

Formation of Hague Group comes amid challenges to ICJ and ICC rulings

South Africa and Malaysia will launch a campaign to protect and uphold the rulings of the international court of justice (ICJ) and…

‘Africa is where I’m from’: why some Black Brazilians are moving to Benin

West African country is offering citizenship to descendants of enslaved persons taken from the continent, sparking huge interest in Brazil

João Diamante was gripped by a sense of belonging as he stepp…

Can communities living side by side with wildlife beat Africa’s national parks at conservation?

Across the continent, millions of hectares of land are being used and run by local people coexisting with wildlife in spaces where both can thrive

  • Photographs by Nicoló Lanfranchi

Africa’s first nation…

Inside the 100-year fight to get a Black revolutionary pardoned

Joe Biden’s pardon of Marcus Garvey capped a decades-long campaign to restore the reputation of one of the most significant Black leaders of the 20th century

In the days before President Joe Biden’s f…

How the world has responded to Trump’s Paris climate agreement withdrawal

From Europe to Africa and South America, countries reaffirm commitment to tackle crisis

World leaders, senior ministers and key figures in climate diplomacy have, one by one, reaffirmed their commitme…

‘We were betrayed’: families of apartheid victims sue South African government

High court case demands inquiry into 1985 Cradock Four killings and ‘constitutional damages’ worth £7.3m

Lukhanyo Calata’s first memory of his father was the funeral. His mother sobbing, the earth ben…

The kindness of strangers: I lost my Kindle – and the person who found it loved my book collection

We exchanged emails and arranged to meet. One friend quipped that if we got married it’d make a magnificent story

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By the time I’d realised my Kindle was go…

Memo to President Trump: you are wrong to leave the World Health Organization. You should think again | Gordon Brown

Any funding disparities can be addressed, but another pandemic is coming – and we’ll need the WHO to help fight it

This week, in East Sussex, a case of mpox was announced, the sixth UK case since Octo…

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