King Charles on Caribbean tour as calls grow for slavery reparations
UK’s King Charles joined a Junkanoo street parade during a visit to the Bahamas ahead of the Commonwealth summit.

UK’s King Charles joined a Junkanoo street parade during a visit to the Bahamas ahead of the Commonwealth summit.







![Performers present a reenactment of the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the Christiansborg Castle, a former slave post, during a high-level consultative conference on the next steps to the landmark United Nations resolution on the trafficking of enslaved Africans, in Accra, Ghana [Francis Kokoroko/Reuters]](https://aljazeeranews-mggx1uo47w.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2026-06-19T194555Z_291660089_RC2ZWLA37JWD_RTRMADP_3_GHANA-SLAVERY-1782305783.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)

Milei is deepening a state tradition that has equated whiteness with civilisation since its inception.

French MPs vote to repeal law that governed slavery in colonies.

France justified abstaining on a UN resolution recognising the slave trade as the gravest crime against humanity.

The sugar industry’s bitter legacy, built on slavery, exploitation and environmental damage, is still resonating today.

Slavery declared the gravest crime against humanity.
Resolution on transatlantic slavery supported by 123 countries, while three opposed it – including the US and Israel.

Ghana’s foreign minister proposed a resolution recognizing the trans-Atlantic slave trade as a crime against humanity.

Mehdi Hasan goes head-to-head with Nigel Biggar on the brutal legacy of Britain’s colonial past.
Judge accuses the US government of trying to rewrite history by taking down the exhibit in the city of Philadelphia.

Portugal’s global trading empire – from fortified ports to faith-fuelled profits – across Africa, Brazil, and Asia.