Willie Colón, trombonist and salsa music pioneer, dies aged 75
In 1967, at 16, he recorded his first album El Malo with Héctor Lavoe, forming an inimitable salsa duo for the Fania record label that popularised the songs Calle Luna, calle Sol, Abuelita, Ah, ah, oh, no, Ghana’e, El día de mi suerte, La murga and Juana Peña.
Sudan civil war: UN says atrocities are ‘hallmarks of genocide’
“The body of evidence we collected — including the prolonged siege, starvation and denial of humanitarian assistance, followed by mass killings, rape, torture and enforced disappearance, systematic humiliation and perpetrators’ own declarations – leaves only one reasonable inference,” said fact-finding mission expert Mona Rishmawi. “The RSF acted with intent to destroy, in whole or in…
