Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 608
Somalis Caught Between Terrorism and a Border Dispute
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Oct 08 (IPS) - Somali militia groups are beginning to operate in Kenya's remote and arid North Eastern Province, an area that borders southern Somalia – a former stronghold of the extremist group Al-Shabaab.
Egyptians Clash on Streets and over Constitution
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Oct 07 (IPS) - Bloody clashes erupted in Cairo on Sunday Oct. 6 between supporters of the military and followers of ousted elected president Mohamed Morsi as the latter protested against the July military coup that deposed their leader. But as clashes occurred on the streets, a clash of ideologies has been occurring on the country's 50-member committee as it amends Egypt's constitution.
Somalia Takes Teaching to the Extreme
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU, Oct 04 (IPS) - Mukhatar Jama has been teaching at a secondary school in Mogadishu for the past decade. Religious education is part and parcel of the curriculum of all schools in Somalia, but he says most parents are unaware of exactly what their children are being taught – a radical form of Islam.
Hope and Pessimism as Israelis and Palestinians Resume Talks
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 04 (IPS) - Israeli and Palestinian negotiators returned to the negotiating table on Thursday, ready to put claims by the United States that it will engage more forcefully in the negotiating process to the test.
Banning Nukes Still a Political Fantasy
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 03 (IPS) - The General Assembly's first-ever high-level meeting on nuclear disarmament closed last week on a predictable note: the longstanding proposal for the elimination of nuclear weapons remains firmly in the realm of political fantasy.
Q&A: "Guinea Bissau Is Dangerously Close to Becoming a Failed State”
- Inter Press Service
LISBON, Oct 02 (IPS) - Guinea Bissau is "close to becoming a failed state," but not due to ethnic or religious violence, which has never existed in that small West African nation, argues Nobel Peace laureate and United Nations envoy José Manuel Ramos-Horta.
Q&A: "This Is Not Huntington’s World"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 01 (IPS) - While a fine wine might get better with age, the same is not true for flawed political theories.
Disabled Make Do with Scraps from the Aid Table
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 01 (IPS) - Amidst the incomprehensible suffering that followed the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, international aid agencies rushed to provide services to the displaced and injured.
/CORRECTED REPEAT/Healthcare Loses Support in Somalia
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU, Sep 30 (IPS) - Maryan Yusuf, 39, is weak and barely able to speak because of her excruciating pain. A few hours earlier she delivered a baby at Somalia's Afgooye Hospital, where essential drugs are dwindling at an alarming rate. 'Interrogating' an Assad Militiaman
- Inter Press Service
MA’ARRET AN-NU'MAN (Idlib Province, Syria), Sep 30 (IPS) - The prisoner is led, handcuffed and dirty, into what until last year served as a school. "A shabiha," said one of the anti-regime rebels in the room. "We found him two days ago at a checkpoint."
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