Earlier in October, videos surfaced of a young man being shot at by members of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, commonly known as SARS, with the latter driving off in his car after the execution. This is not the first time images or videos of execution or brutality by this tactical group o…
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This is How China Could Be the New IMF
Landlocked Zambia in Africa is facing a debt crisis and it’s a typical story. During years of booming copper prices, the Zambian economy boomed. But when copper prices started falling in 2011, Zambia borrowed to stimulate the economy and maintain growth impulses. Money was spent on vanity project…
Photographer Lu Guang Reveals How China’s Love of Bloodwood is Destroying African Forests
A new project by the award-winning photojournalist Lu Guang, made in collaboration with Greenpeace, exposes how the Chinese appetite for luxury furniture is devastating African forests. Blood Wood, on display at Shanghai’s Beaugeste Gallery (until 23 February 2018), documents the logging of blood…