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3 weeks ago | 
irishtimes.com | David Adams |Mark Mazzetti
Erik Prince, a private military contractor and prominent supporter of US president Donald Trump, is working with Haiti’s government to conduct lethal operations against gangs that are terrorising the nation and threatening to take over its capital.
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1 month ago | 
infobae.com | David Adams |Mark Mazzetti
Mercenaries and Private Military ContractorsUnited States International RelationsDrones (Pilotless Planes)GangsBlackwater WorldwideUnited NationsPrince, Erik DHaitiUnited StatesEl gobierno haitiano ha firmado un acuerdo con Prince, el contratista militar privado que fundó Blackwater, empresa conocida por una matanza de civiles en Irak.
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2 months ago | 
sightmagazine.com.au | Nafisa Eltahir |David Adams
Dubai, United Arab Emirates/Cairo, EgyptReuters A top Emirati diplomat said the Gulf state was disappointed at the failure of a London conference this week to find consensus on ending the two-year war in Sudan, as sources blamed differences between Arab states.
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2 months ago | 
sightmagazine.com.au | Alexandra Valencia |David Adams
Quito, Ecuador Reuters Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa – a millennial business heir who won a new term on Sunday by an unexpectedly wide margin – may struggle to push bills through the country’s divided legislature, where his election rival’s coalition is close to a majority. His mother – doctor and lawmaker Annabella Azin – might be a big part of the solution, if he’s willing to take on some political risk.
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2 months ago | 
sightmagazine.com.au | Huseyin Hayatsever |Mert Ozkan |David Adams
Antalya, Turkey ReutersThe head of the Council of Europe, the continent’s leading human rights watchdog, told Reuters it was worried about any violations of rights in Turkey after the jailing of President Tayyip Erdogan’s chief political rival and hundreds of arrests that followed mass protests.
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2 months ago | 
sightmagazine.com.au | Manuela Andreoni |Ricardo Brito |Lais S. Morais |Laís Morais |David Adams
Brasilia, Brazil ReutersThousands of Indigenous people from across Brazil are rallying in the nation’s capital this week to demand protection for their land rights, fighting legislation that could make it impossible for some tribes to reclaim territory they were forced to leave. Disputes over the 2023 law, backed by the powerful farm lobby, have fomented the protests by Indigenous groups that say it violates their rights to ancestral lands recognised in Brazil’s 1988 constitution.
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2 months ago | 
sightmagazine.com.au | George Obulutsa |David Adams
Nairobi, KenyaReutersTanzanian opposition party leader Tundu Lissu was on Thursday charged with treason, a capital offence, for comments he made last week that prosecutors said called on the public to launch a rebellion and disrupt an election due this year. The charges against Lissu, the chairman of the main opposition party CHADEMA and runner-up in the 2020 presidential election, will bring fresh scrutiny to President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s human rights record as she bids for re-election.
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2 months ago | 
sightmagazine.com.au | Jeff Mason |Philip Blenkinsop |Joe Cash |David Adams
Washington DC, US/Brussels, Belgium/Beijing, China ReutersPresident Donald Trump’s trade war rattled global markets anew on Thursday as stocks and oil prices sank amid fears China may once again respond in kind with higher tariffs to match the latest levies imposed by the United States. Battered global markets and anxious global leaders welcomed Wednesday’s reprieve when Trump suddenly decided to freeze most of his hefty new duties for 90 days.
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2 months ago | 
sightmagazine.com.au | John Irish |Elizabeth Pineau |David Adams
Paris, FranceReutersFrance’s foreign minister warned on Wednesday that if world powers were unable to quickly reach a new agreement with Iran over its contested nuclear program then a military confrontation seemed “almost inevitable”. Speaking after President Emmanuel Macron convened a rare and undisclosed meeting of key ministers and experts on Wednesday to discuss the Iran dossier, Jean-Noel Barrot appeared to ramp up the pressure on Tehran.
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2 months ago | 
sightmagazine.com.au | Elizabeth Pineau |Stephanie Lecocq |David Adams
Paris/Henin-Beaumont, FranceReutersA Paris court said on Tuesday three appeals have been filed so far in the case against the far-right National Rally party that saw leader Marine Le Pen banned from running for office for five years, but did not provide details on who had filed them. The appeals court said in a statement it would issue a ruling on the appeals in the summer of 2026, ahead of the 2027 presidential election.
