Banjo Damilola
Investigative Journalist || 🎖️Emmy nominee || 🎓 @columbiajourn || Building @karahousemedia || ✍️ @pass_blue || Arit Okpo stan account.
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2 weeks ago |
passblue.com | Banjo Damilola
France leads the United Nations Security Council in April as its relationship with its oldest ally, the United States, feels more fragile than ever. America’s tariffs, Russia’s continuing invasion in Ukraine and even the Gaza war have pitted France and the US on opposite sides of the political fence right now.
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2 weeks ago |
passblue.com | Banjo Damilola
Omar Bojang, left, and Sainey Bojang, victims of a 2009 witch hunt in the village of Jambur, Gambia. Omar, the village head, and Sainey continue to tell their stories of cruel tactics used by President Yahya Jammeh to oppress citizens during his 22-year presidency. A new audio documentary from PassBlue describes victims’ fight for justice through reparations as Jammeh remains in exile.
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3 weeks ago |
passblue.com | Banjo Damilola
The renewed Israeli military operations in Gaza since the collapse of the ceasefire in mid-March presents a war without limits, the top United Nations interim official for the Occupied Palestinian Territories said Wednesday. Speaking from Gaza, Jonathan Whittall told journalists during an April 2 briefing at UN headquarters that Palestinians were being shot in the back as they ran for cover from Israel’s endless shelling and other bombardments.
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3 weeks ago |
passblue.com | Banjo Damilola
Vorzel, a village of about 6,900 people in the city of Bucha, was once a refuge for Ukrainians fleeing Russian occupation in the east in 2014. Hidden by forests of thin-leaf trees and shrubs, Vorzel provided safety — until a fateful day in 2022, when Russian forces encircled the area, unleashing a massacre that swept through the village and elsewhere in Bucha. By the end of February 2022, Vorzel itself succumbed as Russian soldiers raided Bucha, rolling in with tanks from the north in Belarus.
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3 weeks ago |
passblue.com | Banjo Damilola
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is asking the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on the Rwandan government for its noncompliance with the Council’s resolution demanding a ceasefire in Congo. The country’s envoy to the UN, Zénon Mukongo Ngay, appealed to the Council on March 27, saying that the continued involvement of the Rwanda Defense Forces in the conflict violates Congo’s sovereignty.
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Just like Raphaël Glucksmann, a French politician, who asked for the Statue of Liberty to be returned, two Republican representatives, led the call in 2003 for restaurants in Capitol Hill to drop the word “French” from their fries and breakfast toast. https://t.co/Kqvubt7tgw
