Tremors shake Congo’s Goma after volcanic eruption, scores missing
Updated 10.45am (AEST)Goma, Democratic Republic of CongoReuters Repeated tremors shook the Congolese city of Goma on Monday, unnerving families still reeling from a volcano eruption at the weekend that destroyed nearby villages, displaced thousands and killed at least 15 people. Mount Nyiragongo, one of the world’s most active and dangerous volcanoes, erupted on Saturday evening, […]
WHO sets new targets for vaccinating world’s poorest to end “scandalous inequity”
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The COVID-19 pandemic is being perpetuated by a “scandalous inequity” in vaccine distribution, the head of the World Health Organization said on Monday as he set new targets for protecting people in the poorest countries. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that no country should assume that it’s “out of the woods”, no […]
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi appears in court in person for first time since coup
Reuters Myanmar’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in person at a court hearing on Monday for the first time since her government was overthrown by the military in a 1st February coup, her lawyer told Reuters. Suu Kyi looked in good health and held a face-to-face meeting with her legal team for about […]
India tests drones to take COVID-19 vaccines to rural areas
Thomson Reuters Foundation Villagers in remote corners of rural India could start seeing curious flying objects in the skies as health experts test out drones to deliver COVID-19 vaccines to isolated communities amid a deadly surge in coronavirus cases. The southern state of Telangana, which is part of the World Economic Forum’s Medicine from the Sky project […]
US imposes restrictions on Ethiopia assistance over Tigray
Washington DC, US Reuters The US Government said it was imposing wide-ranging restrictions on economic and security assistance to Ethiopia over the atrocities in Tigray, as well as barring current or former Ethiopian or Eritrean government officials it deems responsible for the crisis. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement on Sunday the […]
Ousted Samoa PM refuses to cede power, despite election loss
Canberra, AustraliaReuters Samoa’s Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi said on Monday he would remain in office, despite an order by the country’s Supreme Court that lawmakers sit to appoint a new leader. Samoa’s Supreme Court last week overruled an attempt by the head of state Tuimalealiifano Vaaletoa Sualauvi II to void April’s election results which […]
“Racial healing”: 100 years later, Black church leaders seek reparations for Tulsa massacre
ADELLE M BANKS, in an article first published on Religion News Service, reports on the ongoing push for the city of Tulsa and other defendants to pay reparations to relatives of victims and survivors of a 1921 massacre in which an estimated 300 Black people were killed…
Bloody Mexican election campaign exposes chronic security woes
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Abel Murrieta was handing out campaign flyers on the street this month when a gunman shot him in broad daylight at point-blank range, making him the latest candidate murdered in one of the bloodiest election campaigns in Mexico’s recent history. Running for mayor in mid-term elections on 6th June, Murrieta died in […]
Essay: BBC Bashir saga feeds trust deficit
Writing from London, MAL FLETCHER looks at how the controversy surrounding BBC journalist Martin Bashir’s interview with Princess Diana will impact public trust…
Postcards: Bangkok’s micro homes – a model for slum dwelling in COVID-19?
RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on hopes small homes which have helped residents during the coronavirus pandemic could be a model for the larger planned redevelopment of a Bangkok slum…