Colonialism

The motion did not pass amid fears it would jeopardise relations with France, Tunisia's most important commercial partner.

As calls to remove statues of Belgium's controversial monarch, Leopold II, grow louder, Assita Kanko warns of the dangers of having a curated and sanitised version of history.

'The ghost of the past, the colonial past, is still haunting these spaces,' said one historian, speaking of the controversial statues under attack in parts of Europe.

Indonesia was under Dutch rule for 350 years. The Dutch military had carried out a series of massacres to crush the resistance against colonial rule.

Colonialism was a "grave mistake" and a "serious fault made by the French Republic", French president Emmanuel Macron declared on Saturday from Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

The UK has been criticised after missing a deadline set out by the UN to handover control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

If there is one historic Angolan figure every visitor to Angola should know it's Agostinho Neto, Angola's first president.

Toxic attitudes to refugees and migrants across our country have steadily been on the rise since the Brexit referendum, while our European neighbours are putting us to shame in welcoming refugees in large numbers.

By legalising homosexuality, Botswana has joined other African countries like Angola, Seychelles, Mozambique and South Africa.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Monday that he has written to King Felipe VI and Pope Francis urging them to apologise for "massacres and oppression."

The Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore has decided to unveil this extraordinary story with its latest exhibit — and in an interview with Euronews.

Fifty years after independence, Swaziland is following in the footsteps of all other former British colonies by changing its name.