Month: June 2024
The election subversion case against Donald Trump in Georgia was just put on hold indefinitely. The state appeals court ordered a pause until it rules on the latest effort to get District Attorney Fani Willis disqualified from the case. Plus, Trump is renewing his threat to get revenge for his criminal conviction in New York. The former president turned felon suggested he may prosecute and even jail his political opponents if he returns to the White House.
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How does it feel to report on the refugee crisis when it’s also the story of your own family? Aamna Mohdin explains
Aamna Mohdin was a young rookie reporter when she got her first foreign assignment. She was being sent to Calais to write about “the Jungle”, an informal refugee camp that had sprung up, made up of people hoping to cross the Channel for a better life in the UK. She was nervous about doing a good job but as she walked around the chaotic maze of tents with people cooking on open fires she began to feel strange and uneasy.
It wasn’t just the sadness of the stories she was hearing but something more like deja vu. When she told her mother about her trip, her mother asked a question that astonished Aamna: why would she want to go to a refugee camp when they had risked everything to flee one themselves? The question sent Aamna spiralling as she realised she had repressed her own memories of living in a camp in Kenya as a child, and how they had fled to the UK.
How does it feel to report on the refugee crisis when it’s also the story of your own family? Aamna Mohdin explains. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus