Press TV – September 16, 2016 European companies are accused of taking advantage of weak fuel standards in African countries to export highly-polluted fuel to West Africa, a new report says. The report, from the Swiss watchdog group of Public Eye, said major European oil companies and commodity traders take crude oil from African countries, […]
Press TV – May 23, 2016 The British government is providing military training to the majority of nations it has blacklisted for human rights violations, a new report reveals. In a report published on Sunday, the Independent revealed that 16 of the 30 countries on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO)’s “human rights priority” watchlist […]
RT | May 11, 2016 Nigerian leader Muhammadu Buhari used a keynote speech at a major anti-corruption conference in London to blast Prime Minister David Cameron for calling the African country “fantastically corrupt.” The conference, which is currently underway, was meant to address global corruption, but a shadow was cast when Cameron was caught on […]
Press TV – April 29, 2016 Rights activists have called for the bodies of hundreds of Shia Muslims massacred by the Nigerian army last December to be exhumed for further investigation into the exact number of victims. Residents in the northern city of Kaduna, where the carnage took place, have rejected the official death toll […]
Last week students at L’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) disrupted a board meeting after learning administrators planned to sign a $50 million, seven-year, contract with security giant GardaWorld. Protesters are angry the administration has sought to expel student leaders and ramp up security at the politically active campus as they cut programs.
Press TV – April 6, 2016 A Nigerian human rights lawyer has called for the immediate and unconditional release of senior Shia cleric and leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky. In a Tuesday letter to the director general of the Department of State Services (DSS), Femi Falana said that Zakzaky […]
Few Canadians are familiar with pre-colonial African cities and even fewer know a Canadian military leader helped sack one of West Africa’s great metropolises.
Two new lawsuits say Shell is liable for oil spills that have destroyed livelihoods, contaminated water supplies.
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American Herald Tribune | February 21, 2016 It seems that Nigerians have to fear not only the extremist group Boko Haram, but also official soldiers who have proved to carry out extrajudicial killings, where the soldiers act as merciless as insurgents that have been spreading death and destruction in the African country. According to the […]
Author’s Note: The below article was submitted to the Winnipeg Free Press perspectives and politics editor who edited it and asked me to look over her changes. A second editor then asked me to clarify/rewrite a sentence, which was done. The story was then spiked and, to the best of my knowledge, Manitoba’s leading newspaper has yet to mention the below controversy.
It’s the black eye few Manitobans knew they had.
