FeedSource- World news | The Guardian ǀ Published-Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:17:02 GMT
Title: 'Only job I know': tiny Lesotho's garment workers reel from Trump's 50% tariffs
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Impoverished African country is hit with highest tariff rate, overturning decades of global trade policy

The day after Donald Trump announced sweeping global tariffs, Lesotho’s garment workers feared for their jobs.

Last year, Lesotho sent about 20% of its $1.1bn (£845m) of exports to the US, most of it clothing, as well as diamonds, under a continent-wide trade agreement meant to help African countries’ development via tariff-free exports.

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FeedSource- World news | The Guardian ǀ Published-Thu, 03 Apr 2025 18:01:39 GMT
Title: Meta faces £1.8bn lawsuit over claims it inflamed violence in Ethiopia
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Son of murdered academic calls on Facebook owner to ‘radically change how it moderates dangerous content’

Meta faces a $2.4bn (£1.8bn) lawsuit accusing the Facebook owner of inflaming violence in Ethiopia after the Kenyan high court said a legal case against the US tech group could go ahead.

The case brought by two Ethiopian nationals calls on Facebook to alter its algorithm to stop promoting hateful material and incitement to violence, as well as hiring more content moderators in Africa. It is also seeking a $2.4bn “restitution fund” for victims of hate and violence incited on Facebook.

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FeedSource- World news | The Guardian ǀ Published-Thu, 03 Apr 2025 12:11:50 GMT
Title: World Bank announces multimillion-dollar redress fund after killings and abuse claims at Tanzanian project
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Communities in Ruaha national park reject response to alleged assault and evictions of herders during tourism scheme funded by the bank

The World Bank is embarking on a multimillion-dollar programme in response to alleged human rights abuses against Tanzanian herders during a flagship tourism project it funded for seven years.

Allegations made by pastoralist communities living in and around Ruaha national park include violent evictions, sexual assaults, killings, forced disappearances and large-scale cattle seizures from herders committed by rangers working for the Tanzanian national park authority (Tanapa).

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FeedSource- World news | The Guardian ǀ Published-Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:13:32 GMT
Title: Asian countries riven by war and disaster face some of steepest Trump tariffs
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Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos hit with rates over 40% as experts say the real target is China

Developing nations in south-east Asia, including wartorn and earthquake-hit Myanmar, and several African nations are among the trading partners facing the highest tariffs set by Donald Trump.

Upending decades of US trade policy and threatening to unleash a global trade war, the US president announced a raft of tariffs on Wednesday that he said were designed to stop the US economy from being “cheated”.

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FeedSource- World news | The Guardian ǀ Published-Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:32:18 GMT
Title: Donald Trump signs off UK's handover of Chagos Islands to Mauritius
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No 10 says deal to cede UK’s last African colony now being finalised after months of doubt

Donald Trump has signed off the UK’s handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, Downing Street has indicated, paving the way for the UK to cede sovereignty over its last African colony after a six-month standoff.

Under the terms of the deal, the UK will give up control of the Chagos archipelago while paying to maintain control of a joint US-UK military base on the largest island, Diego Garcia, under a 99-year lease.

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FeedSource- World news | The Guardian ǀ Published-Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:04:41 GMT
Title: People displaced by Uganda oil pipeline 'received inadequate compensation'
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Many of the people displaced by Eacop project were inadequately rehoused or compensated, report says

People displaced from their homes alongside the site of an oil pipeline under construction in Uganda have complained of being inadequately rehoused or compensated.

When completed, the East African crude oil pipeline (Eacop) will transport oil from the Tilenga and Kingfisher oilfields in western Uganda to the port of Tanga in Tanzania.

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FeedSource- World news | The Guardian ǀ Published-Fri, 04 Apr 2025 04:00:42 GMT
Title: Activist takes case over Trinidad's homophobic laws to UK's privy council
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Legislation was repealed in 2018 but Caribbean country’s supreme court last week recriminalised the act after appeal

The privy council in London will soon be called upon to make the final decision on a court case to remove homophobic laws in Trinidad and Tobago.

The laws were repealed in 2018 in a high court judgment that struck from the statute book the “buggery law” that had criminalised consensual anal sex since an act passed in 1925 under British rule. However, last week Trinidad’s supreme court upheld a government appeal against the ruling and recriminalised the act, dealing a hammer blow to LGBTQ+ rights in the Caribbean country and prompting the UK Foreign Office to update its advice for LGBTQ+ travellers.

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FeedSource- World news | The Guardian ǀ Published-Thu, 03 Apr 2025 17:12:16 GMT
Title: Canada to counter 'unjustified' US tariffs with 25% taxes on US cars, says Carney
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Canadian prime minister says country will impose taxes on US vehicles not compliant with continental free trade deal

Canada will retaliate against “unjustified, unwarranted” tariffs imposed by the United States with a 25% tax on US vehicles, says Mark Carney.

On Wednesday, Donald Trump announced wide-ranging tariffs on dozens of countries, but did not add new trade levies to Canada or Mexico. Despite the reprieve, however, the US has placed 25% taxes on Canadian steel, aluminum and vehicles.

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FeedSource- World news | The Guardian ǀ Published-Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:47:53 GMT
Title: Canada Trump tariff exemption 'like dodging a bullet into the path of a tank', says business leader
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Automotive industry and prime minister Mark Carney note that 25% tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum and automobiles will still come into effect within hours

Canada’s exemption from Donald Trump’s global tariffs was “like dodging a bullet into the path of a tank”, say business leaders as other levies are poised to hit key industries that drive the country’s economy.

In a theatrical unveiling of tariffs on countries with “unfair” practices on Wednesday afternoon, Canada was noticeably absent, alongside trade ally Mexico.

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FeedSource- World news | The Guardian ǀ Published-Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:51:28 GMT
Title: Trump announces sweeping new tariffs, upending decades of US trade policy
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President to impose ‘reciprocal’ tariffs on largest trading partners and says new charges will bring about ‘golden age’

Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on some of its largest trading partners on Wednesday, upending decades of US trade policy and threatening to unleash a global trade war on what he has called “liberation day”.

Trump said he will impose a 10% universal tariff on all imported foreign goods in addition to “reciprocal tariffs” on a few dozen countries, charging additional duties onto countries that Trump claims have “cheated” America.

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