Some of the survivors from a harrowing migrant journey that departed the Tete Province of Mozambique for South Africa have recalled their experiences for the first time. The truck transporting the migrants was discovered by police on the Malawi-Mozambique border on March 24. Only 14 people were rescued alive, as […]
On May 11th, Brazil’s government deployed thousands of soldiers to combat deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. The troops are working with the police, environmental officials, and other government agencies to prevent wildfires and illegal destructive activities (such as logging). According to a Reuters article dated May 11th, the operation costs […]
On May 6, medical personnel in the department of La Paz delivered the body of suspected gang member Luis Iván Mejía Bonilla to his family after he had allegedly died due to complications of COVID-19. Though the body came with strict instructions not to open the coffin, according to El […]
The EU and the U.K. are resuming Brexit talks ahead of the June 1 summit. In order to extend past the December 31 deadline, both the EU and U.K. need to decide whether the deadline should be negotiated. After a talk in April, an EU negotiator said progress had been […]
Severe flooding has caused devastation across several East African countries in recent weeks. Hundreds of thousands have been displaced in Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Rwanda and Ethiopia, with a probable death toll of around 300. Kenya has faced the brunt of the disaster, with the government reporting 237 deaths as of […]
Colombia, Brazil and Peru share a triple frontier. A frontier which exists more in the maps than in reality. A frontier crossed by the amazing Amazon River where migration processes are hardly followed and where the local communities are bonded by something more than a nationality. The Amazon rainforest, apart […]
