Indigenous leader Raoni recovers from illness in Brazil

Brazil Indigenous Leader

Chief Raoni Metuktire, the ethnic Kayapo leader who became a symbol of the fight for Indigenous rights and the preservation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, has recovered from an illness after being in hospital for 10 days, a doctor said.

Raoni had been taken to a private hospital in Sinop, a city in Mato Grosso state in western Brazil, from his home in the Xingu Indigenous reservation after suffering diarrhoea and dehydration, said his great-nephew, Patxon Metuktire.