A Brussels court has declared that Belgium has violated rights protected under civil law, and breached the European Convention on Human Rights. The court found that the government had not adequately met its climate-related targets and as a result has not behaved as “generally prudent and diligent authorities.” This was
The UN World Food Program (WFP) has reported that southern Madagascar – currently in the midst of its worst drought in four decades – is facing a mass food emergency. WFP chief David Beasley tweeted on Friday that 400,000 people are “marching towards starvation.” A briefing by the WFP published
In early June 2021, the government of Nigeria announced that it had indefinitely suspended Twitter within its borders, according to Reuters. This announcement came just two days after Twitter removed a post made by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari which contained a veiled threat towards regional secessionists in the southeast, tweeting
Eight tonnes of cannabis resin were discovered on a boat off of Senegal’s coast on Sunday, 6 June 2021. The Senegalese navy escorted the boat to a naval base in Dakar where 8.37 tonnes of hashish were found. The hashish was split between 279 bags, according to authorities. The boat
353,000 people in Ethiopia are estimated to be suffering catastrophic food shortages, according to the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). Additionally, UNICEF reported 33,000 malnourished Ethiopian children at a high risk of death. Currently, starvation in Ethiopia is more widespread than anywhere else in the world. The nation
On 7 June, a court in the Netherlands began hearing evidence against the four fugitive suspects in connection with the MH17 Malyasian airline crash. The four suspects – Russian nationals Sergei Dubinsky, Oleg Pulatov, and Igor Girkin, as well as Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko – are suspected of being key pro-Russian separatists
