Windhoek, Namibia (AFP): Authorities in Namibia’s capital Windhoek have taken down and relocated a statue of a controversial German colonial officer following pressure from local activists. The monument commemorated Curt von Francois, a German army commissioner who has been historically credited with “founding Windhoek” ̵...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – South Africa’s Constitutional Court on Monday ordered the release of Janusz Walus, who was jailed for killing anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani in 1993, on parole. “The decision of the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services made in March 2022 denying the applicant’s application for parole, is reviewed and set aside,” ...
PARIS (AA) – French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne decried an alleged racist incident occurring in the French parliament on Thursday. Borne declared “racism has no place in our democracy,” French news channel BFMTV reported. The French interior minister Gerald Darmanin wrote on Twitter, “What a shame.” Earlier, Pr...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AA) – A group of tourists on a river boat in the Peruvian Amazon have been detained since Thursday by an Indigenous group as part of a protest against a recent oil spill. Local media reported that at least 150 tourists are being held hostage in the Maranon River, in the province of […]
ANKARA (AA) – The French parliament adjourned its sitting on Thursday after Black lawmaker Carlos Martens Bilongo was yelled at to go back to Africa by a member of a far-right party. Bilongo, a member of the left-wing France Insoumise party, was addressing the chamber when the far-right member yelled, “Go back to Africa!,” th...
HOUSTON, United States (AA) – Officials in the US state of Oklahoma have found 21 new graves believed to contain the remains of Black victims from the 1921 Tulsa Massacre. The coffins were discovered at Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa: 17 adult-sized graves were located last Friday and Saturday; two adult-sized graves and two that are [&hellip...
LONDON (AA) – A number of petrol bombs were thrown at a migrant center in Dover, southeast England, local police said on Sunday. Kent Police said: “Officers established that two to three incendiary devices had been thrown into a Home Office immigration premises. One minor injury has been reported. “The suspect has been identi...
ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands (AA) – Some health professionals in the Netherlands have been discriminating against patients with migrant backgrounds, according to a report published recently. Titled “Discrimination makes you sick,” the report by the Science Institute Statera said the experiences of patients with migrant backgrou...
PARIS (AA) – Tears of the Seine, an animated short film, has received attention in France and globally. The film has won a bronze medal at the Student Oscars in Los Angeles. It sheds light on the bloody police crackdown on the demonstration by Algerians in Paris on Oct. 17, 1961, in which hundreds of […]
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – A Canadian man who perpetrated a “racially motivated” attack on a Black Muslim woman and her daughter was sentenced Friday to 16 months in prison and probation for two years. Richard Bradley Stevens, 43, accosted the pair Dec. 8, 2020, while they were sitting in their car outside a shopping mall [&helli...
