WEEKLY ROUNDUP. Kabylia has undergone a convulse week as at least tens of thousands have protested in the streets against marginalization of the Amazigh language. Violent clashes have been reported. Also in North Africa, controversy over the survival of slavery in Mauritania has seen yet another chapter, the country’s president blaming abolitionist organizations of seeking to politically exploit that scourge. In Bangladesh, a new Doctors Without Borders estimation puts the number of Rohingya killed during the August-September attacks against them at 6,700, well above official figures. Keep reading
Corsican nationalist alliance Pè a Corsica is set to form a new government in the Mediterranean island after it won, 10 December, an absolute majority in the second round of the Corsican Assembly election. The alliance, made up of pro-autonomy Femu a Corsica and pro-independence Corsica Libera, swept elections by achieving 56.5% of the votes cast, which translated into 41 of 63 seats in play. It is a historical result for the Corsican movement. The winning alliance called on the French government to negotiate a Statute of Autonomy for the island. Keep reading
WEEKLY ROUNDUP. The week is loaded with tension in Honduras amid protests and fraud allegation in the aftermath of the presidential election in which a coalition of opposition parties supported by the main Indigenous umbrella group has sought to defeat president Juan Orlando Hernandez. Meanwhile, in Sardinia, eight pro-sovereignty parties and movements have unveiled a “pole for self-determination” that aims to win the 2019 Sardinian election. In Southeast Asia, Burma and Bangladesh have inked a controversial deal on the return of Rohingya refugees. Keep reading
WEEKLY ROUNDUP. A government report has concluded that juvenile detention centres in Australia’s Northern Territory are home to serious abuse against prisoners, many of whom are Aboriginals. This week we are also highlighting a life imprisonment sentence over genocide and crimes against humanity against Bosnian Serb military officer Ratko Mladic. In Somaliland, the newly elected president will seek to advance the country’s international recognition, while in Ireland Gerry Adams is stepping down from Sinn Féin leadership. Keep reading
WEEKLY ROUNDUP. An Amnesty International report details crimes committed for over five months against the civilian population of Marawi, in Mindanao, in the hands of both the Philippine army and groups affiliated to the Islamic State. In Europe, this week we are highlighting the demonstration for a new funding arrangement in the Valencian Country and efforts in the Macedonian Parliament to gran Albanian co-official status. Keep reading
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Somaliland, a state that is not recognized by anyone but that is independent since 1990, has just celebrated its third presidential election. The case of this former UK colony is surely the most consolidated one among current attempts to achieve independence in Africa, but at the same time exemplifies how difficult it is to get foreign recognition, even when independence is implemented on the ground. Africa, after witnessing how virtually all the states that make it up came into existence in the 1950-1980 period, has only given rise to three post-colonial independent countries: Namibia in 1990 (from South Africa), Eritrea in 1993 (from Ethiopia) and South Sudan in 2011 (from Sudan). Still, pro-independence movements do exist in a number of other African countries. Which are the main ones nowadays? North to south and east to west, this article highlights a dozen of them. Keep reading
