s largest tropical rainforest • New species of the Amazon rainforest - in pictures A purring monkey, a vegetarian piranha and a flame-patterned lizard are among more than 400 new species of animals and plants that have been discovered in the past four years in the Amazon rainforest, conservationists say. Discovered through hundreds of scientific expeditions between 2010 to 2013, the total of 441 new...
Scientists from Conservation International's Rapid Assessment Programme find a treasure trove of new and rare species including cocoa frog and lilliputian beetle in pristine forests and mountains ...
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Go develop yourselves'." The British high commissioner to Jamaica, David Fitton, said in a radio interview on Wednesday the Mau Mau case was not meant to be a precedent and that his government opposed reparations for slavery. "We don't think the issue of reparations is the right way to address these issues," Fitton said. "It's not the right way to address an historical problem." In 2007, marking the...
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s most corrupt country, along with Somalia. But why has the US gone up one place and the UK's score improved? See how the annual corruption index has changed • Get the data • Interactive map of this data Corruption around the world remains a deeply entrenched, global concern according to Transparency International's 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) - the world's most credible measure of of domestic,...
In what is widely regarded among press freedom watchdogs as a breathtaking case of impunity, Desi Bouterse was sworn in as president of the south American republic of Suriname a week ago. During his phase as the country's dictator from 1980-87, he was accused of murdering five journalists. They were executed in 1982 along with 10 other pro-democracy activists. No independent media was permitted to...
s coalition, called the Mega Combination, won most seats in elections in May but needed a small party's backing to clinch his return to power. "I reach out my hand to everyone who feels that they are adversaries and ask them to leave the past behind so we can build this country together," the tearful president-elect told cheering supporters. Once he is sworn in next month, Suriname, a former Dutch...
s leading trade unionist, waited to testify against Desi Bouterse, the former military dictator who spared his life but forced him to watch the execution of 15 of his friends. Sadly, a few months before he was due to appear as the star prosecution witness in the long-awaited trial, Derby died of a heart attack, aged 61, while playing football. Derby would never say why Bouterse, who seized power in...
s case, the colonists were the Dutch, who were not sorry to see the back of the territory. They won sovereignty over Suriname in 1667, at the same time as they lost New York; even though it became the world's biggest producer of bauxite, it proved to be poor compensation. The colonial authorities established a plantation economy based on African slavery, which the Netherlands was the last European...