The U.S. and Israel were two of only three countries to vote against a resolution in the UN to condemn the transatlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations. The resolution strongly condemns slavery and the trafficking of Africans and recognizes the impacts of the “abhorrent regimes of slavery and colonialism” and contemporary colonialism of Africa.
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When President Donald Trump launched a series of airstrikes in Nigeria on Christmas, he described it as an attack against “ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians.” But locals in a town that was hit during the strike say terrorism has never been a problem for them. On Friday, CNN published a report based on…
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President Donald Trump — the self-described “most anti-war president in history” — has now ordered the bombing of more countries than any president in history as US forces carried out Christmas day strikes on what the White House claimed were Islamic State militants killing Christians in Nigeria. “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly…
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About an hour and a half east of Ghana’s capital city, Gladys Adgy stood outside a stand in Kpone waiting for an order of grilled Tilapia. Adgy watched the screen of her cracked smartphone. A Telegram chat with a man named Raymond pulsed with messages from the New York City area, where the largest number of Ghanaians live in the U.S. Raymond had a green card, he kept reminding her over…
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