CATEME, Mozambique — When Augusto Conselho Chachoka and his neighbors heard that the world’s biggest coal mine was to be built on their land, a tantalizing new future floated before them. Instead of scraping by as subsistence farmers, they would earn wages as miners, they thought. The mining company would build them sturdy new
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Can the oceans continue to feed us?
WASHINGTON — Far out on the Pacific Ocean, the world’s industrial fishing fleets pursue one of the last huge wild hunts — for the tuna eaten by millions of people around the world.
Brazil’s long shadow vexes some neighbors
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Sandal-clad indigenous protesters have excoriated their president, calling him a “lackey of Brazil.” Angry demonstrations in front of Brazil’s embassy here denounced its “imperialist” tendencies. Bolivian intellectuals lambasted the “São Paulo bourgeoisie,” likening them to the slave hunters who expanded the boundaries of colonial Brazil.
How fear drove world rice markets insane
Nothing is more basic and simple than food. Yet it comes to us courtesy of a long, complicated supply chain that spans the globe.
US trying to seize more than $70M from Equatorial Guinea dictator’s son over alleged corruption
Justice Department officials are trying to seize more than $70 million in assets — including a Malibu mansion and Michael Jackson memorabilia — owned by the playboy son of the dictator of Equatorial Guinea.
Kenyans in first al-Shabab battle in Somalia after crossing the border
Kenyan troops have clashed with Islamist militants inside Somalia for the first time since crossing the border nearly two weeks ago.
US drone base in Ethiopia is operational
The Air Force has been secretly flying armed Reaper drones on counterterrorism missions from a remote civilian airport in southern Ethiopia as part of a rapidly expanding U.S.-led proxy war against an al-Qaeda affiliate in East Africa, U.S. military officials said.
After five years, free universal secondary education in Uganda has improved attendance for poor students and girls, but quality problems remain
Headteacher David Wanyama sums up his assessment of Uganda’s five-year-old free universal secondary education as “three major achievements and five grave challenges”.
Population growth taxing planet’s resources; expanding demands are depleting seas, fresh water and forests
The president is using his authority to try to put Democrats on the side of angry voters
Bolivia scraps Amazon road project protested by indigenous people
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has scrapped plans for a road project in the Amazon that had triggered protests by indigenous people.
