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Thursday, 04 February 2021 20:43
Nigeria: Chibok girls and Boko Haram
In 2014, militants stormed a boarding school in Chibok and kidnapped 276 girls. Dozens escaped almost immediately; another girl was found in May 2016. After government/Boko Haram negotiations, 21 more girls were released, then 82 were…
Thursday, 04 February 2021 20:40
Myanmar: military coup
Myanmar's military took power on 1 February. Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy party are now under arrest. The coup ends a democratic experiment in a country where generals usually rule. In…
Thursday, 28 January 2021 20:36
Ethiopia: surge in violence - 1,000 deaths
Up to 1,000 people – including priests and church leaders – were killed in recent attacks in Ethiopia. A Belgium-based nonprofit organisation released reports of 1,000 people hiding in an Orthodox church in Aksum, thought to…
Thursday, 28 January 2021 20:32
Canada / global: availability of vaccine
The Archbishop of Canterbury has criticised Canada for massively over-ordering supplies of the coronavirus vaccine, hindering the rollout of jabs to the world’s poorest nations. He said the North American country had in the pipeline more…
Thursday, 28 January 2021 20:29
Tunisia: youth protests sweeping country
A growing groundswell of youth unrest, tapping into a well of economic frustration, is sweeping Tunisia, the country which triggered the 2011 ‘Arab Spring’. A third of the nation’s young people are unemployed. Many are angry…
Thursday, 28 January 2021 20:22
Hong Kong: Christians and Chinese crackdown
Recently, the situation in Hong Kong has changed dramatically. There is great fear that things are not going to settle down or be anywhere like they used to be. On 6 January, over 1,000 police officers…