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PARAMARIBO (Reuters) -Suriname's fugitive former President Desi Bouterse has died aged 79, the country's government said on Wednesday, almost a year after he fled authorities to avoid jail ...
Former Surinamese President Desi Bouterse, whose conviction for involvement in the killing of 15 people more than four decades ago was upheld in December, must report to a jail to serve his ...
Bouterse, 78, who dominated Suriname's politics for decades and left office in 2020, faces 20 years in prison. Bouterse's lawyer Irvin Kanhai told reporters as he left the court that he had not ...
Ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Suriname. 20 November: Ten people are killed during a gold mine collapse in Suriname. [1] 20 December: Dési Bouterse, former president of Suriname, is sentenced to 20 years in prison for the December murders of 1982. [2]
2 October – President Chan Santokhi announces a $10 billion project titled GrandMorgu between the French energy firm TotalEnergies, the US-based APA Corporation and the state oil company Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname to extract an estimated 700 million barrels of the coast of Suriname.
Suriname (/ ˈ s ʊər ɪ n æ m,-n ɑː m / ⓘ SOOR-in-A(H)M, Dutch: [syːriˈnaːmə] ⓘ, Sranan Tongo: Sranan), officially the Republic of Suriname (Dutch: Republiek Suriname [reːpyˈblik syːriˈnaːmə]), is a country in northern South America, sometimes considered part of the Caribbean and the West Indies.
There was a flight of Haitians into Suriname in July and another is planned. Haiti fires most staff in its Suriname consulate over possible human-trafficking ring Skip to main content
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