The Epstein files Trump has been desperate to hide
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The Epstein files Trump has been desperate to hide
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The Department of Justice failed to release documents relating to three interviews the FBI conducted between July and October 2019 with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child.
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Read 'Ethiopia on the Brink: International community must act urgently to prevent mass atrocities': www.globalr2p.org/publications...
South Africa's Zulu king has raised eyebrows by using a highly derogatory term for foreigners and saying they must all leave the country during a much-hyped speech that was supposed to have been aimed at calming anti-migrant feelings in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal
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One person was killed and another injured in drone strikes in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region on Saturday, a senior Tigrayan official and a humanitarian worker said, in another sign of renewed conflict between regional and national forces
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When talking about the smuggling of minerals from Democratic Republic of Congo, people tend to think in terms of coltan, cobalt and diamonds. In fact, the key mineral at the moment is gold. This is an important, overdue report. globalinitiative.net/analysis/tra...
Russia’s Africa Corps is entrenched in CAR, Sudan, and Mali, trading regime protection for gold, diamonds, timber, and other assets, frequently routed through the UAE. This pays for Putin’s war in Ukraine
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Conflicts across Africa, such as in Sudan, the Horn of Africa or the Sahel, remain unresolved as international attention and mediation efforts are stretched or focused elsewhere. https://bit.ly/4bwFXVi
Since Congress passed a law requiring Trump to release the Epstein Files, Trump has:
- Tried to start a war with NATO over Greenland
- Threatened to use the military to suppress free speech in Minnesota
- Illegally withheld 99% of the files and heavily redacted the ones that were released
"An extraordinary and uncomfortable book": Baroness Hayter reviews 'Unbroken Chains'
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Why Trump is keen to crack down on American Somalis
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Another Blow to Media Freedom in Ethiopia. Attacks on Deutsche Welle Underscore Broader Threat to the Independent Press www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...
The cover of Unbroken Chains: A 5,000-Year History of African Enslavement by Martin Plaut has a white background with pale blue chains running across it, with black and red text.
In Unbroken Chains: A 5,000-Year History of African Enslavement by @martinplaut.bsky.social, ’the former BBC World Service Africa editor places the now well-documented horrors of the transatlantic slave trade in a wider historical context.’ — Michela Wrong
Poor Wales!
US calls for international action to cut weapons supply to Sudan paramilitaries
I contributed a few suggestions to the Spectator's yearly roundup of recommended reading: www.spectator.co.uk/article/book...
Sudan capital hit by drone attacks a day after RSF agrees to truce - reports
Oh dear. Falling apart before it even gets going! The far-left disunited
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Scarborough beach
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