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Zimbabweans put their country on the map in the world of wine

Nyasha Chingono in Harare · news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 19 January, 2022 - 08:15

After rising to the top of a white-dominated industry, a new generation of Zimbabweans are bringing their talents home

Like many young Zimbabweans before and since, Tinashe Nyamudoka left the economic chaos of his country to find work and a better life for himself in neighbouring South Africa.

When he left in 2008, Nyamudoka had never tasted wine. Now, he ranks among southern Africa’s top sommeliers and has his own wine label with international sales.

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Shock in Colombia over murder of 14-year-old indigenous activist

Joe Parkin Daniels · news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 18 January, 2022 - 20:35

Breiner David Cucuñame was shot dead while on patrol with the unarmed group Indigenous Guard

A 14-year old indigenous activist has been murdered in Colombia, prompting horror and shock at the latest in a spate of killings of environmentalists and social leaders in the South American country.

Breiner David Cucuñame was shot dead on Friday while on patrol with the Indigenous Guard, an unarmed group which seeks to protect indigenous lands from incursions by the country’s many armed groups.

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‘I’d been set up’: the LGBTQ Kenyans ‘catfished’ for money via dating apps

Sarah Johnson in Nairobi · news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 4 January, 2022 - 08:30

A colonial law that criminalises ‘unnatural’ sexual acts leaves LGBTQ+ people prey to social media extortion and blackmail

One day after work last month, Tom Otieno* went to a shopping centre in Nairobi to pick up groceries before heading home. He got a call from someone he had been chatting to for a week on Grindr, a social networking app for gay, bi, trans and queer people. The man had already tried ringing several times during the day while Otieno was with colleagues and was keen to meet.

Otieno, 29, mentioned where he was but said that he did not want to see the man. Then, as he was heading to his car, he got another call. As he answered it, someone approached him and said they were a police officer. Seconds later, two other officers joined him and surrounded Otieno.

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A deadly parasite, faulty sewage systems, and the sisters fighting for their small US community

Alastair Gee in Rancho Vista, Texas · news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 4 November, 2021 - 09:00

What researchers found in the Reyes Ibarras’ home was shocking. What’s worse, the sisters say, is no one’s helping

When the letter arrived with the logo of a noted university in the corner, Veronica Reyes Ibarra expected good news. She called her boyfriend, her mom and her sisters over: “You guys, look what I got, I think it’s a scholarship.”

But as she scanned the page, she suddenly wasn’t sure she had the courage to read it out to them.

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Trudeau files last-ditch appeal against billions for Indigenous children

Leyland Cecco in Toronto · news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 29 October, 2021 - 22:34

Tribunal ordered Canadian government to pay compensation to children who suffered discrimination in welfare system

Justin Trudeau’s government has launched a last-minute court appeal against a ruling that would require it pay billions of dollars to First Nations children who suffered discrimination in the welfare system.

Minutes before a court deadline on Friday afternoon, the government filed papers indicating it planned once again to fight a human rights tribunal decision ordering the compensation payment.

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‘It’ll kill me’: Zimbabwe counts cost of rise in illicit alcohol use

Nyasha Chingono in Harare · news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 27 September, 2021 - 07:00

Lack of jobs and Covid lockdowns fuel boom in cheap but lethal hooch made in backyard stills

It is 7pm and inside the shebeen, or unlicensed bar, in Harare, men and women clutch small bottles of “whisky” and talk animatedly as they dance to loud music.

One man staggers and falls over, to the amusement of other drinkers. He mumbles inaudible words as he drifts into sleep. Nearby, two other men doze after spending hours in the bar on a sweltering September day.

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Beyond Kabul, a humanitarian crisis is developing in Afghanistan | Astrid Sletten

Astrid Sletten · news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 5 September, 2021 - 13:00

As an aid worker, I can see first-hand how a perfect storm of conflict, drought and Covid has gripped the country

It felt surreal to be flying into Kabul international airport rather than out, crossing paths with families who were trying to flee. For three days I sat stranded in a field hospital in the airport grounds, the crowds and chaos blocking any route into the city, the popping of guns blocking any notion of sleep.

I had returned to Afghanistan to head up the Norwegian Refugee Council’s aid operation, through which we have been providing assistance such as education, food and shelter since 2003. Speaking with many of my colleagues, it is clear Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis stretches far beyond the perimeter of Kabul airport .

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Bid to pardon Chileans imprisoned during mass protests gathers pace

Charis McGowan in Santiago · news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 11 August, 2021 - 11:30

Pardons bill gains significant support among Chileans who credit for 2019 protest for galvanising important reforms

Maribel Gaete could not shake the feeling that something bad was going to happen to her son, 19-year-old Bastian Campos, when he went to a protest in Antofagasta, Chile , in November 2019.

“Police were firing teargas; you couldn’t breathe. As soon as he shut the door, I began to worry,” recalled Gaete.

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Eight-year-old becomes youngest person charged with blasphemy in Pakistan

Haroon Janjua in Islamabad · news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 9 August, 2021 - 04:00

Hindu boy faces possible death penalty after being accused of intentionally urinating in a madrassa library

An eight-year-old Hindu boy is being held in protective police custody in east Pakistan after becoming the youngest person ever to be charged with blasphemy in the country.

The boy’s family is in hiding and many of the Hindu community in the conservative district of Rahim Yar Khan, in Punjab, have fled their homes after a Muslim crowd attacked a Hindu temple after the boy’s release on bail last week. Troops were deployed to the area to quell any further unrest.