Ghana hosted a reparations conference where Caricom presented its 10-point plan, adopting a global framework for reparative justice. A key demand was compensation for gender-based violence against enslaved African women, highlighting historical amnesia and the ongoing legacies of misogynoir.
Senegal's national football team is struggling at the World Cup amidst a governance crisis within the Fédération Sénégalaise de Football (FSF). The new FSF administration, led by Abdoulaye Fall, faces criticism for mismanagement, including unpaid wages and contract issues for head coach Pape Thiaw, and poor player performance.
African and Caribbean leaders adopted a 19-point global framework for reparatory justice in Accra, Ghana, demanding formal apologies and compensation from nations that benefited from the transatlantic slave trade. The framework also calls for the return of cultural property and debt relief.
African and Caribbean leaders adopted a 19-point global framework for reparatory justice in Accra, Ghana, demanding formal apologies and compensation from nations that benefited from the transatlantic slave trade. The framework also calls for the return of cultural property and debt relief.
African and Caribbean nations are demanding formal apologies and reparations from countries that profited from the transatlantic slave trade. The call follows a UN resolution recognizing the trade as a crime against humanity and a conference in Ghana endorsing a 19-point reparations plan.
Rochester Cathedral's historical investments in a slave-trading company reveal a dark financial legacy, mirroring a broader reckoning within the Church of England over its ties to slavery and a controversial £100m fund for reparations.
Ghana is hosting a three-day conference in Accra, "Next Steps," bringing together over 80 countries to advance reparatory justice following a UN resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans a grave crime against humanity. The event aims to transform political momentum into concrete institutional commitments.
Ghana welcomes Pope Leo XIV's apology for the Catholic Church's role in slavery, calling it an 'act of moral courage' towards truth, dignity, and justice, as the nation seeks compensation and apologies for the transatlantic slave trade.
Pope Leo XIV, in his first major manifesto, urged governments to disarm AI, emphasizing ethical constraints and common good over power and profit. He also issued an unprecedented apology for the Vatican's historical role in the transatlantic slave trade.
Pope Leo XIV issued a landmark apology for the Holy See's direct involvement in legitimizing slavery, calling the Vatican's historical record a "wound in Christian memory." This is the first time a Pope has acknowledged and apologized for past papal bulls authorizing the subjugation and enslavement of "infidels."
French President Emmanuel Macron faces growing demands to initiate discussions on reparatory justice for centuries of slavery as he prepares to speak on its legacy. France's abstention on a UN vote calling for reparations has fueled anger, with calls for dialogue from descendants of enslaved people and slave owners alike.
African archipelago hopes startups, digital infrastructure and diaspora investment can transform its economyFor much of its history since its discovery by the Portuguese in the mid-15th century, the Cape Verde archipelago off the coast of west Africa served as a hub of the international slave trade, with Africans forcibly transported to marketplaces before being distributed across the Americas and Europe.Now, almost 150 years since slavery was abolished in Cape Verde, and just over 50 years since independence from Portugal, Pedro Fernandes Lopes wants the country to become a beacon for the free movement of human and financial capital across the African diaspora. Continue reading...
Bristol has launched a campaign to become the UK's capital of civil rights, led by think-and-do tank CuriosityUnLtd. The initiative marks the anniversary of the 1963 Bristol bus boycott, which successfully overturned the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews and led to the UK's first Race Relations Act in 1965. Events through spring and summer will include talks, film screenings, exhibitions, a mural by Ella-Mia Grant at Upfest, and a performance of Jamaica Love at Bristol Beacon, culminating in a civil rights manifesto by the end of summer.
Pope Leo visited the Sanctuary of Mama Muxima in Angola, a site that served as a major hub in the slave trade during Portuguese colonial rule. The American pope recalled the "sorrow and great suffering" Angolans endured for centuries, addressing an estimated 30,000 gathered faithful. The church, built at the end of the 16th century as part of a fortress complex, was where enslaved Africans were baptized before being forced to walk over 110km to the port of Luanda for shipment to the Americas. He did not refer specifically to slavery in his remarks.
