Brexit and the Good Friday agreement

The landmark peace deal struck between the British and Irish governments in 1998 paved the way for power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland and ended a 30-year conflict. Henry McDonald reports on how the Good Friday agreement is once again under scrutiny as Britain approaches Brexit. Plus Jason Burke on the political crisis in Zimbabwe

For decades, the conflict in Northern Ireland was rarely out of the news. Then a landmark peace deal, the Good Friday agreement, set the country on to a new path. Now Brexit has made the Irish border a focal point once again and the key sticking point in negotiations.

This week, MPs voted to send the prime minister back to Brussels to reopen talks on the controversial Irish backstop. Meanwhile, power-sharing at the Stormont assembly is on hold and there was a recent bomb attack in Derry.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2MHoTyx