Claire McQue

LatAm lost an area the size of Costa Rica from its mature tropical forests in 2024, says @globalforests. Fires accounted for 60%, releasing 1.15 Gt of CO2—more than all of S. America generated by burning fossil fuels in 2023. My new story in @TheEconomist: https://t.co/DpFjL9TI9W https://t.co/aQqgW1F2nX

RT @dickinsonbeth: Armed groups in #Colombia rely so heavily on child recruitment that in many areas, the war is over the kids. Communiti…

My brief update in ⁦@TheEconomist⁩ on the deteriorating security situation in Colombia, where the largest active guerrilla group — the ELN — are waging war in three parts of the country. There is little stopping them. Humanitarian crises multiply: https://t.co/2GQjv8pzyM

In April 2022 Russia controlled 19.6% of Ukrainian territory; its casualties were perhaps 20,000. Today Russia occupies 19.2% and its casualties are 800,000. Important piece on Putin’s long game in @TheEconomist https://t.co/sSoU60dwBz

RT @shashj: If Vance wants America to throw in the towel, he’s entitled to do so. But he doesn’t get to manufacture spurious arguments to j…

RT @federicorios: Cientos de migrantes deportados por Trump ahora están atrapados en el hotel Decapolis en Panamá. Les quitaron sus pasapor…

The IMF estimates that since 2017, Venezuelan migrants have increased annual GDP growth by 0.2 percentage points in Colombia, a boost which will last until 2030. In this week's @TheEconomist https://t.co/S7IOSBwzOS

RT @BramEbus: The ELN's role in 🇻🇪 goes beyond a strategic rearguard, as they have moved into gold mining districts and border areas, coinc…

“There are so many bodies needing to be processed. There is such a queue of families waiting [for burial] that they are only allowed 30 minutes at the graveside.” https://t.co/Zzo8KrWkbJ

michelawrong @michelawrong

No one has talked much about Rwandan casualties during the M23's three-year operation. They are running high, we found in this Guardian investigation. Bereaved families back in Rwanda are reeling, mourning their dead sons. https://t.co/xNKBrP5IkA

Loved this report about people power in South Africa’s most maligned city

Ed Habershon @edhabershon

My piece for @BBCNews on the people trying to improve the city of Johannesburg https://t.co/RLuoaRgfXj

Deeply worrying

Elizabeth Dickinson @dickinsonbeth

#Colombia will now face a massive deficit in funding the 2016 peace agreement, and that money is unlikely to materialize - either from donors or from the government itself, which is already in fiscal crisis. Is this the end of much of the peace accord's reform projects? Maybe https://t.co/ItXYpgy9m8

RT @TheEconomist: “As always in Colombia, the heart of the issue is cocaine.” @ClaireemcQue tells “The Intelligence” how resurging violenc…

RT @PedderSophie: Ten years after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, satire is under siege. Riss, the paper’s editor, lives under police protectio…