How slaves ended slavery
While slavery would be reviled by secular and religious interests, slaves themselves finally overthrew it Fri, Jun 7, 2019, James Walvin Frederick Douglass, the towering figure in the history of […]
Meet the warrior woman from Dahomey who trained Haitian revolutionary hero Dessalines
March 12, 2019 at 05:00 pm | HISTORY ELIZABETH OFOSUAH JOHNSON | Staff Writer Elizabeth Johnson is a Ghanaian –Nigerian avid reader and lover of the Creative Arts. She is […]
UN will not compensate Haiti cholera victims, Ban Ki-moon tells president. – World body invokes legal immunity to rebuff claims despite studies identifying UN peacekeepers as source of the outbreak
Rashmee Roshan Lall in Port-au-Prince and Ed Pilkington in New York THE GUARDIAN The UN has taken the rare step of invoking its legal immunity to rebuff claims for compensation from 5,000 victims of the Haiti cholera epidemic, the worst outbreak of the disease in modern times and widely believed […]
Switzerland: Joint aid cooperation package published
The cabinet has earmarked SFr11.35 billion ($12.4 billion) for international cooperation and development aid for the next four years. At a joint presentation with the foreign ministry on Wednesday, Economics […]