‘I decided to not let anybody silence my voice’: the journalists in exile but still at risk
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 6 days ago - 04:00
Threats from the state have led many journalists across the world to flee their home countries to report from elsewhere. But for many the intimidation did not stop when they left
Illustrations by Joe McKendry
Fardad Farahzad, journalist, Iran International
Continue reading...Essential supplies running out as RSF paramilitary encircles Darfur’s largest city
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 7 days ago - 12:21
The population of El Fasher, which includes thousands of displaced people, is in ‘dire need of food, medicine and water’
Water, food and fuel supplies for people in the largest city in the Darfur region of Sudan are being choked off as fighting intensifies, according to reports.
El Fasher has been encircled by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group over recent weeks, besieging the population as well as the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and allied militias.
Continue reading...‘I refuse to simplify Syria for western audiences’: director Soudade Kaadan on making a war movie without bloodshed
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 7 days ago - 12:05
Nezouh, a dreamlike story of a family under siege in Damascus, seeks to portray the difficult decision of to stay or go, and leave the country they love
When Soudade Kaadan embarked on the journey to make a film about her war-torn home city of Damascus, she was burdened by “certain expectations as to how a Syrian film should look”.
“They want us to simplify the complexity of the Syrian war for western audiences,” she says. “I refuse to do that. They want films from Syria to be explanatory and informative and not a film with storytelling, with a personal point of view.
Continue reading...Chagos Islanders fear loss of identity as birth certificates altered to remove disputed homeland
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 7 days ago - 10:00
Birthplace and parents’ names are being removed from passports and birth certificates as Mauritius stakes claim to the island
Exiled islanders from the disputed British-owned Chagos Islands are finding their heritage has been removed from new identity documents in an apparent move by Mauritius to stake its claim to the territory.
British ownership of the Chagos Islands has long been challenged by Mauritius, where most islanders were shipped in the 1960s after being evicted from their Indian Ocean homeland to make way for a US military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island.
Continue reading...Colombia’s Wayúu people live on land rich in resources. So why are their children dying of hunger?
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 7 days ago - 09:00
State failures in La Guajira have compounded water shortages that bring malnutrition and death
In the early hours of the morning, an ambulance carries Rosa Epieyu and her nine-month-old son, Mateo, from Joumana, a Wayúu Indigenous community in La Guajira, Colombia, to a hospital in the nearby town of Manaure. There, a doctor tells Epieyu her son is suffering from malnutrition.
To Epieyu, the diagnosis feels like history repeating itself; one of Mateo’s older sisters was almost lost to malnutrition. Panicked, she grabs some essentials and jumps back into the ambulance for the hour and a half drive to a better-resourced hospital in the city of Maicao.
Continue reading...‘They are trying to eradicate us completely’: the passion and pain of telling the stories of Afghan women
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 7 days ago - 04:00
Her family have been threatened and her team faces increasing risks in Afghanistan, but Zahra Joya knows she must keep reporting from exile
On the nights that she manages to fall asleep, Zahra Joya always returns to Afghanistan in her dreams. On good nights she travels back to Bamyan, her home province, with its green mountains and bright blue lakes, or to her parents as they looked when she was a little girl.
Increasingly though, her dreams are full of roadside bombs or men with guns. Some nights, memories of her last hours in Afghanistan play over and over on a loop: the panicked crowds outside Kabul airport, people being whipped and beaten, the sound of her sisters crying.
Continue reading...Threats, accusations and assault: the dangers of running an LGBTQ+ health clinic in Uganda
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 1 May - 10:00
Brian Aliganyira sees first-hand the devastating consequences of a draconian anti-gay law, as fear and misinformation prevent people getting help
Driving to work one morning last summer, Brian Aliganyira was forced off the road and into a ditch by motorcycle riders surrounding his car on both sides. He was left bruised, and still suffers from shoulder pain.
He later received a text message saying he had been targeted because of his work, running a health clinic for the LGBTQ+ community in Kampala, Uganda. The message said his assailants wanted to “protect children”.
Continue reading...Fewer wildfires, great biodiversity: what is the secret to the success of Mexico’s forests?
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 1 May - 09:00
More than half of the country’s forestry is in community and Indigenous hands – and from CO 2 absorption to reducing poverty the results are impressive
Dexter Melchor Matías works in the Zapotec Indigenous town of Ixtlán de Juárez , about 1,600ft (490 metres) above the wide Oaxaca valley in Mexico , where community forestry has become a way of life. Like him, about 10 million people across the country live in and make a living from forests, with half of that population identifying as Indigenous.
As average temperatures soar around the world and wildfires rage across the Americas, in Mexico, where more than a quarter of the country suffers from drought, the number of wildfires has remained steady since 2012 .
Continue reading...Greek court drops espionage charges against aid workers
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 1 May - 08:34
Accused were arrested in Lesbos and accused of facilitating illegal entry of migrants into the country
A Greek court’s decision to drop criminal charges against dozens of international aid workers accused of espionage and facilitating the illegal entry of migrants into the country has been met with jubilation.
A three-member judicial council convening on the north Aegean isle of Lesbos ruled there was insufficient proof to pursue the case against 35 mostly German nationals.
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