• Human rights

‘It is time’: Summit agrees on global fund to compensate Africans for slavery

Centuries after the end of the slave trade, people of African descent around the world continue “to be victims of systemic racial discrimination and racialised attacks”.

• November 18, 2023
• Francis Kokutse

• Ethical living

The environmental disaster inside your sweet chocolate treat

When you sit down to enjoy some chocolate, you should know that it has already gone through an environmental and ethical minefield.

• March 5, 2023
• Paul Tullis and Yinka Ibukun

• Exclusive
• Blood Gold

‘A bunch of pirates who are here to loot’: New claims against Chinese miner

The Chinese miner at the centre of a $395 million lawsuit by an Australian company has been accused of trespassing on another miner’s land.

• March 1, 2023
• Edward Adeti and Eryk Bagshaw

• Earthquakes

Former Premier League player Christian Atsu found dead in quake rubble

The death toll from the magnitude 7.8 earthquake in southeastern Turkey and northern Syria has now passed 43,000.

• February 18, 2023
• Gerald Imray

• Updated
• FIFA World Cup

Switzerland edge Serbia in goalfest to reach last 16, Cameroon upset Brazil

Switzerland reached the World Cup knockout round for the third successive tournament after prevailing 3-2 over Serbia.

• December 3, 2022

• Blood Gold

Blood gold: Soldiers in Ghana kick residents out of homes near disputed China-owned mine

Residents who had planned to organise a press conference this week to outline their concerns about the Shaanxi expansion have been arrested.

• September 30, 2022
• Edward Adeti and Eryk Bagshaw

• Royal family

In Africa, tributes to the Queen are tempered by Britain’s bloody colonial past

The death of the Queen has evoked memories among some Africans of oppression enforced in the name of the Crown and reignited demands for the return of the crown jewels.

• September 11, 2022
• Abdi Latif Dahir, Lynsey Chutel and Elian Peltier

• Series
• Blood Gold

Blood Gold

Inside the secret and deadly Chinese heist of millions in gold from an Australian mine

• Blood Gold

Ghana to probe Australian mine theft, question Shaanxi officials

Our Blood Gold year-long investigation has prompted the Ghanaian Minerals Commission to investigate corruption and murder allegations against a Chinese state-linked company.

• September 2, 2022
• Peter Milne, Eryk Bagshaw and Edward Adeti