There are extremely few journalists like #ShamJaff @shamjaff specializing on regions and countries in #Asia, #Africa, and the #Americas that never receive enough media coverage.

Sham is monitoring developments; evaluating, summarizing, and presenting them in an ultra-digestible format that still runs very deep.

She's been publishing her "What happened last week" #newsletter for 12 years in a row, and recently moved it to her own platform, https://gishty.com

She added "The Goodies", a quarterly newsletter dedicated to underreported good news; and "You should probably read", which recommends a non-fiction book.

I can't recommend her newsletters enough, they keep a lot of important things on my radar that I could impossibly keep track of myself.

#Journalism

Good news for your Monday

"An Australian multinational mining company is in deep sh*t. BHP has been found liable by a U.K. judge for a 2015 dam collapse in Mariana, Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil. The incident killed 19 people and spilled about 40 million cubic meters (1.4 billion cubic feet) of toxic mine residue onto downstream towns and waterways for 675 kilometers (419 miles)."
For more, check out #ShamJaff's Newsletter

Good:
"#Malawi just banned the export of raw minerals. The government wants foreign companies to stop digging up its resources and shipping them out for processing elsewhere. Instead, it’s saying: if you want Malawi’s minerals, process them here. Create jobs here.

A reminder that “who owns the minerals” and “who profits from them” are still two very different questions."

Found in #shamjaff's Newsletter
https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/malawi-bans-raw-mineral-exports-to-save-dollar500m-in-wealth-annually/0psmpd7

Oh freudiges Frohlocken! Die großartige #ShamJaff @shamjaff ist back auf mastodon 😻

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Und Newsletter zeichnen, bitte: https://whathappenedlastweek.com/

Good news: "A Colombian court sentenced seven former execs of the multinational banana company #Chiquita Brands to more than 11 years in prison and a US$3.4 million fine for financing far-right paramilitary groups during the country’s armed conflict.

Why this matters: This is the first time in Colombia that individual executives have been convicted in national court for financing paramilitary violence. Plus, they each got jail time."
From #ShamJaff's "what happened last Werk"

#Decolonization
"Last Saturday, #France and political representatives from across #Kanaky’s spectrum announced a new agreement. It gives Kanaky more local power, but not full independence. Kanaky (aka #NewCaledonia) would become its own “state” inside France, written into the French Constitution"

Why this matters: Kanaky has 8% of the world’s #nickel. Whoever shapes Kanaky’s political future is also shaping its economic future."

from #ShamJaff's Weekly.

"The people of Bille and Ogale (a combined population of around 50,000) sued #Shell in the UK in 2015. They say Shell’s oil operations ruined their land, polluted their water, and killed fish, making it impossible to farm or fish, which is how they made a living.

Now, in June 2025, a UK High Court has said: the full trial will go ahead in 2027, and Shell and its former #Nigeria:n subsidiary can be held legally responsible for decades of oil pollution that harmed two communities"
From #ShamJaff

How to deal with #bigoil.
#Guyana showing the way.
"It’s Guyana’s biggest step yet to gain some sense of control over its fast-growing oil sector."

Thanks to #ShamJaff for sharing.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/guyana-lawmakers-pass-bill-making-companies-liable-oil-spill-damages-2025-05-17/

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Jede Woche trägt Sham Jaff Nachrichten aus Asien, Afrika und Lateinamerika zusammen. Neben wichtigen Meldungen und Hintergrundinformationen gibt sie Podcast-, Serien- und Filmtipps und empfiehlt ein Musikvideo. Ein Interview von Nikita Vaillant / fluter.de. (CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0)