A presidential candidate’s assassination has focused global attention on the country’s extraordinary bloodshed fueled by powerful international and domestic crime groups.
Brian Houston, who once led Hillsong, was charged because he did not inform the police after his father admitted in 1999 to sexually assaulting a young boy decades before.
While attention is focused on western museums and governments giving back looted items, heritage workers in the global south are laying the groundwork for new claims.
A leader of the coup in Niger who had been considered a close U.S. ally rejected a request from a visiting U.S. diplomat to release the country’s democratically elected president and bring back constitutional order.
As a longtime power broker he helped make his West African country an economic dynamo, but in office he fomented ethnic divisions and cracked down on dissent.