Revealed: The BP-linked oil spill leaving Angolans sick and hungry For 13 years, British tankers have filled up on Angolan crude oil and left behind a trail of what residents describe as systematic, routine destruction.One small patch of BP co-owned Angolan seabed – known as Kizomba A in Block 15 – has cumulatively spilled oil across an area covering at least nine times the size of London, according to satellite imagery analysis.The oil clogs the fishing nets. It blackens cassava, oranges and bananas, and dries the coconut trees. It poisons the fish that the communities in the northern provinc

Britain helped to kill ‘Zionism is Racism’ resolution at the UN Britain launched a “world wide lobbying exercise” to overturn a landmark United Nations (UN) resolution which recognised Zionism as racism, declassified files reveal.The information is in a private exchange between John Major’s foreign secretary Douglas Hurd and pro-Israel lobbyist Sir Trevor Chinn in 1992.Weeks earlier, the UN General Assembly had voted to revoke Resolution 3379 which designated Zionism as a form of “racism and racial discrimination”. That motion, passed in 1975, condemned “apartheid and racial discrimination in

Tories took £1.3 million from firm linked to Israeli settlements The Conservative Party took £1.3m in donations from a business linked to the destruction of Palestinian villages – before opposing new sanctions on Israeli settlements last month.The party’s leader, Kemi Badenoch, spoke out against the sanctions, which the government says will target companies that finance and facilitate illegal settlements in the West Bank.“The wrong decision has been made,” she said. “I don’t think that this is the right way to sort out the problem of settler violence or settler expansion.”Following the sanctio