The Indigenous community in Bogota held a ceremony to thank rescuers who found four children alive 40 days after their plane crashed in the Amazon jungle. Al Jazeera’s Alessandro Rampietti has more from Bogota, Colombia. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News #Colombia #PlaneCrash
Four children found alive after 40 days in the Colombian jungle have been reunited with their relatives. The eldest sibling is 13, the youngest, just one year old. Colombian President Gustavo Petro said they survived like ‘children of the jungle’. Al Jazeera’s Alessandro Rampietti reports from Bogota, where the youngsters are recovering in hospital. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News #Clomboa #ColombiaPlaneCrash #Reunion
Aid agencies have warned that chronic malnutrition among children in Ecuador is spiralling out of control. Almost half of all children under the age of two do not get enough to eat. Among Indigenous communities, the issue is even more prevalent. Al Jazeera’s @AlessandroRampietti reports. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News #Ecuador #foodcrisis
Chile’s Congress has extended a state of emergency in the Araucania region. Armed Indigenous groups there have declared war against the state and big business. They are demanding the restoration of their ancestral lands, and self-determination. It is a stern test for President Gabriel Borich, just months into his first term. Al Jazeera’s Latin America Editor @Lucia Newman reports from Santiago, Chile. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News #Chile #IndigenousGroups #Indigenous #ChileCongress #Araucania #Santiago
The Javari Reserve in Brazil’s Amazon is home to numerous tribes who have never had contact with the outside world. But illegal hunters and fishermen are encroaching on their space. Native trackers patrol the rainforest to keep the tribes safe from threats. But as Al Jazeera’s Monica Yanakiew reports, they have also become targets. – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/ – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera/ – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #Brazil
Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera has imposed a state of emergency over the Mapuche conflict. The Mapuche, Chile’s largest Indigenous group, have been involved in five centuries of struggle for their ancestral land. Mapuche demands have been mainly met with silence, leading some armed groups to attack trucks and farmland in the last 10 years. With the Chilean president under pressure from right-wing factions in his party, troops are being sent to two southern regions hit by the violence. Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman reports from Santiago, Chile. – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/ – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera/ – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #Chile #Mapuche #Indigenous
The remains of 215 Indigenous children have been found at a site of a former boarding school in British Columbia. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called the discovery “heartbreaking”. Al Jazeera’s Victoria Gatenby has more. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #AlJazeeraEnglish #Canada #Children #School
