Amnesty International calls on the authorities to release Tigrayans, activists and journalists, and reveal whereabouts of unnaccounted detainees. Arrests seem ethnically motivated and while some people released on bail, hundreds remain in detention Police in Addis Ababa have arbitrarily arrested and detained vast swathes of activists and journalists without […]
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Crisis in Cuba: the blame lies with the US
The widespread protests that took place in Cuba on 11 July and continued days after made headlines about the unrest among the population. Many have rushed to blame the Cuban government, without thinking that the blame lies with the country to the North. Deisy Francis Mexidor President Joe […]
Is organized crime tied to Haiti president’s assassination?
A convicted cocaine trafficker is among the suspects that authorities in Haiti are pursuing in connection to the middle-of-the-night murder of former President Jovenel Moïse, raising questions about whether organized crime had any role in the high-profile assault. Parker Asmann InSight Crime Rodolphe Jaar, a former drug smuggler […]
The heart of lightness
These three short novels by Sylvia Townsend Warner, written in the 1920s and ‘30s, show the author to be one of the most underappreciated of 20th century British writers of fiction. Sean Sheehan The stories have very different settings and characters and are testimony to the imaginative range […]
Trouble down below
I woke up in hospital, on a Monday afternoon, and behold! – a catheter was protruding from my nether regions. Steve Latham I’d gone in for an investigation, to see whether I had bladder cancer; the result was gratifyingly negative. But I had not expected to leave with […]
















