https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/peru-oil-spill-remediation-cleaning-could-cost-65-mln-repsol-ceo-says-2022-02-17/ This article speaks about the clean-up and remediation costs after a major oil spill of more than 10,000 barrels in Peru. The spills occured in late January when a tanker was rocked by waves caused by the eruption of a volcano in Tonga, Repsol and Peruvian officials. Josu Jon Imaz told analysts on a conference call saying “What we… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/02/14/developments-gambias-case-against-myanmar-international-court-justice# Summary: From February 21-28 the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Netherlands will hold public hearings in the case of The Gambia v Myanmar which is the case accusing Myanmar of violating the Genocide Convention against the Rohingya population in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State. This is a continuation of an on-going hearing that started in… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/world/africa/madagascar-cyclone-batsirai.html Summary: Recently, Cyclone Batsirai, the second storm to hit Madagascar within a month, devastated the island nation. This storm killed more than 20 people and left tens of thousands without homes. This storm hit the southeast side of the Island on Friday, damaging numerous coastal towns and villages before moving inland and flooding crops. It then… Read more »
Link to Article: https://www.voanews.com/a/ugandan-award-winning-writer-released-on-conditional-bail/6411485.html Summary: Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, an award winning author, was recently released after being held for a month. The crime he was imprisoned for was insulting the president’s son. Kakwenza’s lawyer has alleged that he was tortured while in custody. The lawyer describes his health condition as frail adding that he is a torture victim. However not much… Read more »
https://abcnews.go.com/International/cyclone-batsirai-leaves-dozen-dead-thousands-homeless-madagascar/story?id=82719663 In Madagascar winds now gust up to 143 miles per hours as Cyclone Batsirai made landfall on Madagascar’s eastern coast late Saturday before sweeping across the central and southern parts this Sunday. The death toll is now over 92 people and leaving thousands of others homeless. There has been reports that the cyclone flooded almost 7,000 homes, completely destroyed… Read more »
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/9/un-court-orders-uganda-to-pay-325m-in-reparations-to-dr-congo This article is about how the United Nations is now just making Uganda pay the Democratic Republic of Congo for a brutal war that they had in the 1990s. The court broke down the payment of 325 millions dollars of into different categories of damages. It assessed $225m for loss of life and other damages to persons which includes… Read more »
