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US and EU critical minerals project could displace thousands in DRC – report

US and EU critical minerals project could displace thousands in DRC – report

Global Witness says plan to upgrade railway line to Angola puts up to 1,200 buildings at risk of demolition

Up to 6,500 people are at risk of being displaced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure project funded by the EU and the US, amid a global race to secure supplies of copper, cobalt and other “critical minerals”, according to a report by campaign group Global Witness.

The project, labelled the Lobito Corridor, aims to upgrade the colonial-era Benguela railway from the DRC to Lobito on Angola’s coast and improve port infrastructure, as well as building a railway line to Zambia and supporting agriculture and solar power installations along the route. Angola has said it needs $4.5bn (£3.4bn) for its stretch of the line.

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Aid cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core – and will mean millions more infections ahead

Aid cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core – and will mean millions more infections ahead
Aid cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core – and will mean millions more infections ahead
Aid cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core – and will mean millions more infections ahead
Aid cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core – and will mean millions more infections ahead
Aid cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core – and will mean millions more infections ahead

Reports highlight devastating impact of slashed funding, especially in parts of Africa, that could lead to 3.3m new HIV infections by 2030

In Mozambique, a teenage rape victim sought care at a health clinic only to find it closed. In Zimbabwe, Aids-related deaths have risen for the first time in five years. In Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), patients with suspected HIV went undiagnosed due to test-kit stocks running out.

Stories of the devastating impact of US, British and wider European aid cuts on the fight against HIV – particularly in sub-Saharan Africa – continue to mount as 2025 comes to an end, and are set out in a series of reports released in the past week.

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Whistleblower accuses Foreign Office of ‘censoring’ warning of Sudan genocide

Whistleblower accuses Foreign Office of ‘censoring’ warning of Sudan genocide
Whistleblower accuses Foreign Office of ‘censoring’ warning of Sudan genocide
Whistleblower accuses Foreign Office of ‘censoring’ warning of Sudan genocide
Whistleblower accuses Foreign Office of ‘censoring’ warning of Sudan genocide
Whistleblower accuses Foreign Office of ‘censoring’ warning of Sudan genocide

Exclusive: Analyst claims UK officials deleted alert to threat of genocidal violence by paramilitaries to protect UAE

Warnings of a possible “genocide” in Sudan were removed from a UK risk assessment by Foreign Office officials, according to a whistleblower whose testimony raises fresh concern over British failures to act on the atrocities unfolding in the war-ravaged country.

The threat analyst said they were prevented from warning that genocide could occur in Darfur by Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) officials in a risk assessment collated days after Sudan’s brutal civil war erupted in April 2023.

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