Vanessa Buschschlüter Latin America editor, BBC News Online MAURICIO TORRES/EPA Adolfo Macías Villamar was taken to a maximum-security jail Police in Ecuador have recaptured the country’s most wanted fugitive, drug lord Adolfo Macías Villamar. Macías, also known by the alias “Fito”, is the leader of Los Choneros, a powerful criminal gang which is blamed for...
Ibrahim Traoré/X A charismatic 37-year-old, Burkina Faso’s military ruler Capt Ibrahim Traoré has skilfully built the persona of a pan-Africanist leader determined to free his nation from what he regards as the clutches of Western imperialism and neo-colonialism. His message has resonated across Africa and beyond, with his admirers seeing him as following in the...
Part of the Series Movement Memos “We need to think deeply about cultivating that mindset of collective survival, of needing to understand each other and work together, even if we don’t like each other, and would never actually choose each other, because this is the ‘us’ we’ve got in an us versus them situation,” says...
Louise Parry BBC News, Hertfordshire Justin Dealey BBC News, Hertfordshire Justin Dealey/BBC A falconer arrived to tame the hawk after the resident managed to trap it A Harris’s hawk that has been repeatedly attacking villagers has been captured by a resident with the same name. Steve Harris, 40, told the BBC he had managed to...