s children were dying because of it? More than four million children under five years old are now at risk of acute malnutrition in the Sahel, an area of the world that is one of the clearest victims of the rich world's addiction to fossil fuels. About 18 million people in the Sahel – the vulnerable pan-African strip of land that runs from Senegal to Sudan along the southern edge of the Sahara...
This Micronesian island is home to five marine lakes that contain Mastigias papua , the golden jellyfish ...
s plans to close Guantánamo Bay detention centre clears a major hurdle as China opposes move Three Chinese Muslims detained at Guantánamo Bay formally accepted an offer to take up new lives in the Pacific island nation of Palau and could be moved there as early as next month, lawyers say. They were the first among 13 ethnic Uighurs held at the US military prison in Cuba who had been offered resettlement...
s far western region of Xinjiang, are considered separatists by Chinese authorities. The US refused to send them back to China because of concerns the men would be immediately arrested. Palau consented to President Barack Obama's request to take the Turkic Muslims as part of plans to close the Guantánamo Bay detention centre in Cuba. The men were captured in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2001, and the...
s prime minister, Ewart Brown, said the men would be allowed to live in the self-governing British territory, first as refugees. Brown said they would be allowed to pursue citizenship and would have the right to work, travel and "potentially settle elsewhere". Brown said negotiations with Washington over taking in the Uighurs began last month and he had no security concerns because the men had been...
s homeland in the deserts of western China, but the government of the South Pacific atoll said today that it would accept the detainees, opening the way for the biggest transfer of inmates since Barack Obama promised to close Guantánamo prison. The transfer will still leave more than 220 detainees in Guantánamo. Obama, who said he aims to close Guantánamo by January next year , is struggling to find...
nemellys') Wall drop more than 300 metres (985ft) into the blue and are covered in vibrant populations of colourful hard corals. Many tourists, not just divers, also enjoy a visit to one of Palau...
s request to temporarily resettle in Palau up to 17 ethnic Uighur detainees". The US envoy Dan Fried visited the islands last week to arrange the relocation to Palau, which was a UN Trust territory under US administration before becoming independent in 1994. Washington remains a major aid donor, but Toribiong said the decision was made on humanitarian grounds so that the men could start their lives...