It took a month, countless emails, tweets and a desperate Facebook post for Clare Moseley to get hold of and then deliver hand sanitizer for some of Europe’s most vulnerable people—more than 1,000 refugees living in tented camps with no running water in Calais, France.
When a thief stole a multimillion-dollar painting by Vincent van Gogh from a small museum in the Netherlands last month, Octave Durham almost immediately found himself a person of interest.
When 2019 became 2020, Latin Americans hoped they were leaving behind their “second lost decade” for one of greater growth and solid middle-income prosperity.
Mexico’s populist president is trying to reshape the country into an economy with strong worker protections that is driven by oil growth. Yet hundreds of workers at state oil firm Pemex have gone unpaid for months, current and former employees told Quartz.
As the novel coronavirus slowly spreads into the developing world, billions of people face a horrible choice: keep going to their informal jobs and risk contracting or spreading the virus, or stay at home and risk their family starving?
Algeria’s protest movement seemed unstoppable.
Despite its large population and hefty border with China, Russia has reported just 306 confirmed coronavirus cases. Pneumonia, however, is booming, according to official statistics.
Self-isolating isn’t straightforward at the encampment in Matamoros, a Mexican border city home to about 2,500 people living in tents, waiting on US asylum and immigration claims.
Latin American economies are set to suffer heavily from the new coronavirus pandemic and plummeting oil prices, with the region’s collective GDP to shrink 1.5% in 2020, Credit Suisse said in a note to clients.
Mexico’s deputy health minister was hesitant last week when discussing the idea of tightening the US border to tackle the novel coronavirus.
It’s been a tough time for miners of lithium, the metal essential to many high-performing batteries.
The new head of Mexico’s environmental watchdog canceled a $700,000 fine levied against a company accused of destroying dozens of hectares of mangroves on the site of president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s flagship oil refinery project, sources close to the project told Quartz.
Mexico’s state-owned oil company Pemex has defied a government order by cutting down protected mangrove trees on the site where president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has ordered the construction of an oil refinery, according to sources familiar with the project. Satellite images show a landscape razed presumably to accommodate the controversial $8 billion project.
It takes an estimated 70,000 liters of water to mine a single ton of lithium, an alkali metal that humanity may come to depend on as it turns to batteries to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.
Weeks after Brexit, the EU appeared to fire a warning shot towards the UK, adding the Cayman Islands—a British Overseas Territory—to its tax haven blacklist this week.
For a sign of how much coronavirus and a Chinese slowdown could hurt Latin America, take a look at Chile, which sells about a third of its exports to China.
Argentina and Mexico’s new leftist presidents entered office with their countries’ renewables sectors taking on unprecedented levels of investment, following a series of successful clean energy auctions held by their center-right predecessors.
Isabel dos Santos, Africa’s scandal-plagued richest woman, hired a US lobbying firm with close ties to the Trump administration last month, a day after learning that a group of journalists, including Quartz, were investigating her empire, records show (pdf).
Accenture executive Rui Trigo Guedes didn’t react as you might expect when, in 2016, a top newspaper compiled corruption allegations against one of his firm’s clients, Isabel dos Santos, Africa’s first female billionaire and daughter of Angola’s autocratic then-president.
In 2013, Isabel dos Santos, Africa’s richest woman, was facing a major headache: She had become toxic to Western banks.
The Luanda Leaks is an investigation into the empire of Isabel dos Santos, the billionaire daughter of Angola’s former president. The leaks included more than 700,000 emails, contracts and other documents. More than 120 journalists in 20 countries have spent more than eight months combing through the files, which reveal how dos Santos siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars in public money out of one of the poorest countries on the planet.
Heavily pregnant and clad in a gold dress embellished with delicate flowers, Africa’s richest woman leaned on a throne and stared soulfully from a palatial backdrop.
Rupert Murdoch’s Australian outlets have committed all manner of sins in their coverage of the country’s devastating bushfires, critics say.
Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro ordered the eleventh minimum wage hike in 24 months yesterday, boosting the basic salary by 67% to 250,000 bolivars ($3.61) plus a 200,000 “food bonus” as the country struggles to deal with hyperinflation.
