Essay: Time to listen to the “deep and resounding call for justice”
GERSHON NIMBALKER, national director of Australian-based Christian justice advocacy organisation Common Grace, explains why the organisation is calling for a ‘yes’ vote in the upcoming referendum on the proposed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament…
Rags not riches: Ghana drowns in Western castoffs
Traders in the world’s largest second-hand clothes market want reparations for chronic pollution caused by fast fashion. BUKOLA ADEBAYO, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
African climate summit seeks to shift focus to finance from floods, famine
Nairobi, KenyaReuters How to finance environmental priorities and shift the focus from Africa as victim of floods and famine will be central to the debate at the continent’s first climate summit next week, while activists resist plans to expand carbon markets for funding. African countries contribute only about three per cent of global carbon emissions, […]
Wow!: Australian schools lead revival of fading Indigenous languages
ALASDAIR PAL and JAMES REDMAYNE, of Reuters, report on efforts to ensure the survival of Australia’s Indigenous languages…
African Union suspends Gabon’s membership after military coup
Libreville, GabonReuters The African Union on Thursday suspended Gabon’s membership one day after military officers ousted President Ali Bongo, the first regional response to the eighth coup in West and Central Africa since 2020. The takeover ends the Bongo family dynasty’s almost six decades in power and creates a new conundrum for a region hit […]
Ukraine tells critics of slow counter-offensive to “shut up”; Russia holds elections in occupied regions
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Ukraine told critics of the pace of its three-month-old counter-offensive to “shut up” on Thursday, the sharpest signal yet of Kyiv’s frustration at leaks from Western officials who say its forces are advancing too slowly. Since launching a much vaunted counter-offensive using many billions of dollars of Western military equipment, Ukraine has recaptured […]