By Jason Burke and Jon Henley * – The Guardian Award recognises efforts for peace, in particular in resolving Eritrea border conflict The prime minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, who forged a peace deal with Eritrea last year, has won the 2019 Nobel peace prize. The award…
Democracy Now! (Released by Pressenza) Tens of thousands of people, led by indigenous leaders, are expected to again bring Ecuador to a standstill today in massive ongoing anti-government protests. Demonstrators flooded the streets of Quito Tuesday to decry…
Editorial – The Guardian The ditching of Kurdish-led forces threatens to destabilise the region further. It is just the latest proof of the dangers of this president’s foreign dealings Wherever US policy on Syria settles in the coming weeks and months, damage has already been…
By Jane Regan* – North American Congress on Latin America A recent photograph circulating of a Haitian senator shooting an AP reporter is just the tip of the iceberg in Haiti, where an uprising has been simmering for months An Associated Press photographer and a security…
By Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post NEW YORK — About two years ago, Bangladesh let in some 750,000 Rohingya people fleeing a military-led campaign of ethnic cleansing on the other side of the border. Authorities in Myanmar view the Rohingya, a predominantly Muslim minority…
By Rym Momtaz – POLITICO Document seen by POLITICO was basis for meeting and negotiations PARIS 10/1/19 — Donald Trump and Hassan Rouhani agreed on a four-point document brokered by Emmanuel Macron in New York last week as a basis for a meeting and relaunching negotiations…
By Jordan Stancil*– The Nation The assassination of a local politician is waking up the country to the threat of the radical right No one had planned to house refugees in Kassel district in western Germany. But then, no one had seen this many refugees arrive all at once…
By Sasha Abramsky* – The Nation That, plus Supreme Court clearance for a white-nationalist asylum policy, and GOP dirty tricks in North Carolina—all in a week’s work for the Trumpists While many in the media were fixated on Trump’s Twitter spat with Chrissy Teigen, or laughing…
By Jan Lundius* STOCKHOLM / ROME, Sep 2019 (IPS) – When I in 1980 first arrived in America it was a new world to me. I went from New York to Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic and like so many visitors and migrants before me I was overwhelmed by both familiar and strange…
By Maria Michela D’alessandro – The Globe Post Known as an epicenter of the migrant tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea, the island of Lampedusa is a popular Italian tourist destination. The island is the southernmost part of Italy, closer to Tunisia – 70 miles away – than Italy –…
