A research team from the U.S. Center for Disease Control arrived in Brazil Monday to begin a case-control study to find out if the Zika virus really is the cause of a spike in...
Brazil’s biggest city, Sao Paulo, is experiencing a new wave of protests that began a day before a proposed hike in public transport fees took effect. So far, the protests have been violently repressed...
Brazil’s Mariana mining disaster, in which a large dam holding toxic mining waste burst last month, is now considered the country’s worst environmental disaster in history. The sludge buried an entire town under mud...
Public school students in São Paulo, Brazil have successfully stalled state government plans to close 94 public schools as part of a rehaul of the public education system. The closures would have affected more...
Off duty police are the prime suspects in taking part one of the bloodiest nights in São Paulo’s history when 19 people were killed in around two hours by masked gunmen. The massacre is...
More than 50,000 rural women demonstrated in Brazil’s capital Brasilia Tuesday. Their demands include agrarian reform, sustainable development and an end to violence against women. The action, known as the March of the Daisies, is...
Militants from Brazil’s landless workers movement have mobilized in the capital Brasilia and across the country, alleging that the federal government is slashing its budget for agrarian reform. The group, one of Brazil’s largest...
Swaziland has the world’s largest HIV epidemic, affecting roughly one in four people. The epidemic is showing signs of stabilizing and in recent years new infections rates have fallen. However, there’s a stark gender...
As many as 17 thousand textile workers in Swaziland face losing their jobs following the country’s removal from a U.S. free trade agreement at the start of the year. Factories that produce clothing for...
Mozambique is one of the fastest growing economies in Africa thanks to an abundance of natural resources like coal and gas. But the impressive economic growth on paper belies a serious youth unemployment crisis...
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