Former prime minister John Major rejected the US request to take in Haitai refugees in 1992
BRITISH diplomats were terrified that one of their Caribbean tax havens would be overwhelmed by refugees from Haiti, newly revealed papers show.
Haiti’s first democratically elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown in a US-backed coup in 1991.
The military takeover forced thousands to flee. By 1992 the US was desperately asking the British Foreign Office if it could build a screening centre on the neighbouring British territory of Turks and Caicos Islands.
Tehran retaliates with attacks on Israel, the Gulf Arab states and crude oil flows
A US air strike in north-west Nigeria, publicly framed as a Christmas act of counterterrorism, reveals a deeper shift in how power is exercised in Africa, argues RAIS NEZA BONEZA
Beatrice Pompe and Bernadette Dugasse have submitted a UN complaint against Labour’s deal with Mauritius, highlighting how exclusion from ancestral lands is denying their right of return and justice for historical abuses, reports ELIZABETH MISTRY