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Canada Predicted Lineup vs. Suriname: Concacaf Nations League QF Second Leg

Canada will be without Alphonso Davies when it hosts Suriname in the second leg of the Concacaf Nations League quarterfinals.

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Native Americans demand return of ancestors' remains to French Guiana

The remains of six Native Americans who died after being exhibited in a “human zoo” in Paris in 1892 have now been kept in the archives of a French museum for over a century. A delegation of indigenous Kali’na people from French Guiana and Suriname recently came to Paris to…

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French and US companies to invest $10 billion to extract oil off Suriname's coast

Officials say that France’s TotalEnergies and U.S. hydrocarbon company APA Corp. plan to invest $10 billion to extract oil off the coast of Suriname in a historic investment for the South American country

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As renewable energy demand rises, mining for minerals in the Amazon is at a critical point

Illegal mining for critical minerals needed for the global renewable energy transition is increasingly driving deforestation in Indigenous lands in the Amazon.

The Conversation

U.S. sanctions former Haitian president for his involvement in drug trafficking operations

Michel Martelly is accused of sponsoring gangs involved in several criminal activities, which also include displacing hundreds of thousands of people

Latin Times

Authorities find drug smugglers among Haitian migrants escaping violence

Law enforcement in Turks and Caicos Islands seized more than $2 million in marijuana in interceptions of undocumented Haitian migrants

Latin Times

Jairzinho Rozenstruik def. Tai Tuivasa at UFC 305: Best photos

Check out the best photos from Jairzinho Rozenstruik's split decision win over Tai Tuivasa at UFC 305.

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Haiti fires most of its embassy staff in Suriname over alleged links to human trafficking ring

The decision was made after allegations from French authorities

Latin Times

Rainforest Nations Seek Fair Compensation For Carbon-Neutral Efforts

Learn how rainforest nations like Suriname, Guyana, and the DRC are crucial in climate change mitigation through forest preservation and potential carbon o...

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‘Dirty political games’: Suriname is selling its gold and timber – at the cost of tribal land rights

Communities such as the Saamaka are vocal in opposition to increased mining and logging – but has the country’s claim to fame as the most forested in the world already been fatally undermined?

The Guardian - UK

How rice hidden by a woman fleeing slavery in the 1700s could help her descendants

Suriname’s Saamaka Maroons still grow rice from seeds an ancestor escaping from a plantation carried in her hair. Now a gene bank seeks to widen use of the rare species to help fight the climate crisis

The Guardian - UK

Suriname Ex-president Refuses Surrender For Murder Sentence

Suriname's ex-president Desi Bouterse, 78, on Friday refused to turn up to start serving a 20-year prison sentence for the murder of political opponents more than four decades ago.

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The Independent UK

Former Suriname dictator vanishes after being sentenced in killings of 15 political opponents

Former Suriname dictator Desi Bouterse, who was sentenced last month to 20 years in prison for the killings of 15 political opponents, has vanished after not turning himself in to authorities as planned

International Business Times

Suriname Ex-president To Be Jailed After Losing Murder Appeal

Suriname's ex-president Desi Bouterse will be jailed after losing his appeal against a 20-year prison sentence for the murder of political opponents over four decades ago, the prosecutor's office said Thursday.

The Independent UK

Suriname’s ex-dictator sentenced to 20 years in prison for the 1982 killings of political opponents

Suriname’s former dictator Desi Bouterse has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murders of 15 opponents of the then-military regime in December 1982, ending a historic, 16-year legal process

International Business Times

Suriname Court Upholds 20-year Sentence For Ex-president In Murder Trial

Suriname's highest court on Wednesday upheld a 20-year prison sentence for ex-president Desi Bouterse, who lost an appeal against his conviction for the 1982 killings of political opponents.

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The Guardian - UK

‘We live off the forest’: fears rise in Suriname as Mennonites look to settle

Secretive Christian sect poised to carve big farms out of the Amazon, despite concerns of Indigenous people about the settlers’ deforestation elsewhere in Latin America

The Independent UK

Suriname's ex-dictator faces final verdict in 1982 killings of political opponents. Some fear unrest

Suriname’s former dictator will face a final verdict this month in the years-long judicial process over the 1982 killings of 15 political opponents that deeply scarred the South American country

The Conversation

Natalie Zemon Davis: three brilliant examples of her microhistory writing

Natalie Zemon Davis, who died on October 21 just short of her 95th birthday, was probably the best-known and most well-regarded of North American historians since the 1970s. She published her first book, Society and Culture in Early Modern France, in 1975 and was writing the final pages of her…

The Hindu

Amazon rainforest | The scramble to save the planet’s lungs

At the ACTO summit in Belem do Para, Brazil, leaders from Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana called for cooperation to protect the Amazon rainforest. The “Belem declaration” promised concerted efforts to arrest deforestation, protect Indigenous people’s rights and invite development banks to pool funds for conservation…

Dynamite News

India extends support amounting to USD 246,852.71 to enhance flood resilience in Suriname

India has extended support amounting to USD 246,852.71 for project aimed at bolstering early flood warning services to communities in Suriname. Read further on Dynamite News :

The Hindu

President Murmu arrives in Serbia on state visit

The visit is the first by an Indian President to Serbia

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India, Suriname partnership grounded in common historical experience of colonialism: President Droupadi Murmu

President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday highlighted the deep-rooted ties between India and Suriname and said that the partnership is grounded in the common historical experience of colonialism and that the two countries relations have evolved over a period of time and have stood the test of time. Read further on…

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