Indigenous and Afro-Caribbean leaders in Nicaragua filed a lawsuit against government officials last week after they were allegedly coerced into signing a document giving consent for a planned ...

McFields, the first Afro-Nicaraguan to represent his country before the OAS, is a former journalist who had worked at Nicaragua's embassy and its OAS mission — both in Washington — before ...

A project in Nicaragua's rural areas from 2015 to 2019 helped over 14,000 people, mostly women, youth, and Afro-descendants, improve their access to nutritious food. The project used innovative ...

Nicaragua (Nicanahuac), the land of lakes and ... Mostly enjoyed on Sundays, it originates from the mix of Indigenous, Spanish, and Afro-Nicaraguan cultures. Also in town, grab coffee, as well ...

“The financing of these projects has affected and devastated our forests as a result of deforestation,” the Alliance of Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples of Nicaragua said in a 2020 ...

On Garifuna Settlement Day — observed by Belize and Nicaragua on Nov. 19 ... the East New York chef has continued to preserve the Afro-Indigenous cuisine, opening plant-based restaurant Sol ...

Nicaragua angrily announced its withdrawal from the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in a letter that UNESCO's director general, Audrey Azoulay, said she received Sunday morning.

Nicaragua’s authoritarian government freed 222 political prisoners Thursday, including top opposition politicians and business leaders, and sent them to the United States in a surprise operation ...

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega (L) and Vice President Rosario Murillo attend the swearing-in ceremony for a new presidential term in Managua, Nicaragua, on Jan. 10, 2022. Xinhua Xinhua/Sipa ...

(Geneva) – The United Nations Human Rights Council should extend the mandate of the Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua for an additional two years, Human Rights Watch said today.

MEXICO CITY — Nicaragua's government said Sunday it released a prominent Catholic bishop and 18 other clergy members imprisoned in a crackdown by President Daniel Ortega and handed them over to ...