WORLD - The African Mirror

Nov

26

2025

“It’s as if a nuclear bomb went off”: Jamaican communities fight to recover from Melissa

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NEARLY a month after Hurricane Melissa – one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever recorded – swept across Jamaica, killing at least 45 people, injuring hundreds, and leaving a path of destruction, aid groups still face significant logistical challenges to reach those in need, while communities struggle to recover. In mid-November, when The New Humanitarian visited some of the hardest-hit parishes, large parts of the southwest of the island remained in darkness, and roads were still blocked. Communication was intermittent in at least 30 communities that were still only accessible by air or by sea, and hopes for a full…

Feb

03

2026

By MEHR MUMTAZ

Afghan migrants stranded in Pakistan after the US suspends refugee resettlement

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IN January 2025, Seema received an email from the International Organization for Migration saying that her flight from Pakistan to the United States, which she and her family were booked on after months of extensive interviewing and background checks by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, had been canceled. “We had sold our TV and refrigerator,” her husband, Samir, told me during an interview for my dissertation project on Afghan migration to America after the 2021 U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan. “We had told our landlord that we were vacating our apartment. Then it was all canceled.” The U.S. withdrawal in…

Nov

25

2025

By BRUCE WOLPE

Trump’s attacks are worsening. Why is he becoming even more vengeful?

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EVERYONE knew that once Congress passed legislation requiring the Justice Department to release all the Jeffrey Epstein files, US President Donald Trump would go on a tear to “flood the zone” with other distractions so he could command the agenda. And that’s exactly what he did. Over the next four days, Trump met with FIFA President Gianni Infantino in the Oval Office to announce expedited visas for fans at next year’s World Cup (though, pointedly, not for all). He hosted Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with an effusive news conference, where he attacked a journalist for asking a…

Nov

25

2025

By SAM PHELPS

Are things falling apart for Ukraine?

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NEWS broke this week that US and Russian officials have been working in secret on a new plan to end the war in Ukraine. The terms make grim reading for Kyiv. Reports suggest the plan requires Ukraine to cede the territory it currently controls in the east of the country and halve the size of its military. Such a deal would be a major setback for the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky. He has declared repeatedly that conditions identical to those outlined in the plan are non-starters for Ukraine. Yet it’s possible he may soon have little choice but to accept…

Nov

25

2025

By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ and IMRAAN VALODIA

Global inequality is as urgent as climate change: the world needs a panel of experts to steer solutions

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GIVEN the escalating scale of inequality in the world, shouldn’t countries be banding together to set up an international panel on the issue, along the same lines as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations body set up to assess the science related to climate change? The idea of setting up an international panel on inequality has been recommended by the G20 Extraordinary Committee of Independent Experts on Global Inequality. The thinking behind the panel is set out in a report delivered to the G20 by the experts on the inequality committee. They argue that the proposed…

Nov

24

2025

By CHRISTINA CARREGA, CAPITAL B

Officer found not guilty in killing of pregnant Black mother Ta’Kiya Young

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THE Ohio police officer who shot and killed Ta’Kiya Young was acquitted Friday on all counts, including murder. Young was an excited mom of two little boys, and pregnant with her first daughter, when she encountered Connor Grubb at a Kroger supermarket parking lot on Aug. 24, 2023. She was accused of shoplifting by a store employee and tried to flee the parking lot in her car, according to police body camera footage. A single shot was fired. This story was originally published by Capital B.Please sign up for Capital B’s newsletter, which comes out each week, to follow similar stories. On Friday,…

Nov

24

2025

By OWN CORRESPONDENT

Deadly strikes in Western Ukraine underscore no area of country safe, UN refugee agency warns

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A devastating Russian aerial attack on Ternopil in Western Ukraine has prompted urgent warnings from the United Nations refugee agency that no part of the war-torn country should be considered safe for civilians. The strike, described as one of the deadliest in Western Ukraine since Russia's full-scale invasion began in 2022, killed at least 25 people and wounded over 100, according to reports. Emergency response operations were ongoing as of Wednesday evening. Philippe Leclerc, UNHCR's Regional Refugee Coordinator for the Ukraine Situation and Regional Director for Europe, stated that the attack "demonstrates clearly that no part of the country should…

Nov

24

2025

By JACQUELINE PEEL

This year’s climate talks saw real progress – just not on fossil fuels

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IT wasn’t a comfortable process for the tens of thousands of delegates trying to hash out progress on climate change on the edge of the Amazon in Belém, Brazil. I experienced the challenges of the United Nations COP30 climate talks firsthand. Delegates were hot and sweaty. Tech and aircon didn’t always work. Both flood and fire disrupted negotiations over the fortnight of negotiations. It drove home how climate change feels. But despite the discomfort, some progress was made. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva dubbed it the “COP of Truth”. Delegates did not shy away from the urgency of…

Nov

22

2025

By OWN CORRESPONDENT

67 children killed in Gaza since ceasefire as aid operations struggle

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AT least 67 children have been killed in conflict-related incidents in the Gaza Strip since a ceasefire took effect on October 11, averaging nearly two children per day, UN agencies reported Thursday. The latest casualties include a baby girl killed in an airstrike in Khan Younis on Wednesday, and seven children killed in Gaza City and southern Gaza the day before, according to Ricardo Pires of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF). "These are not statistics; these are real children with their dreams and futures cut short," Pires told reporters at a UN briefing in Geneva. Overall, at least 266 people…

Nov

22

2025

By SHANNON BOSCH

Why Israeli soldiers and their leaders may be increasingly at risk of arrest overseas

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IN late December 2008, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert authorised Operation Cast Lead in response to rocket attacks from Hamas-controlled territory in Gaza. The three-week military assault killed around 1,400 Palestinians, including more than 300 children. Thousands of homes were destroyed, and hospitals, UN shelters, power stations, water facilities, food storage sites, schools and mosques were severely damaged. Medical rescue teams and humanitarian workers were obstructed. A UN fact-finding mission documented indiscriminate attacks, the use of white phosphorus in populated areas, and what it deemed the collective punishment of the entire population of Gaza. Human rights groups also compiled evidence…