Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 687
Armed Groups in Northern Mali Raping Women
- Inter Press Service
Increasing numbers of Malian women are being raped by Tuareg rebels and armed groups that have swept across the north of Mali since the beginning of year, expelling all government troops from the region.
Armed Groups in Northern Mali Raping Women
- Inter Press Service
Increasing numbers of Malian women are being raped by Tuareg rebels and armed groups that have swept across the north of Mali since the beginning of year, expelling all government troops from the region.
U.S.: New Steps by Obama to Curb Atrocities in Syria, Elsewhere
- Inter Press Service
In a major speech commemmorating the Nazi Holocaust, U.S. President Barack Obama Monday announced several steps his administration will take to curb mass atrocities abroad, including in Syria where he is under continuing pressure to intervene with military force.
Sudan's President Rules Out Talks with South
- Inter Press Service
Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's president, has pledged not to negotiate with South Sudan amid reports of fresh air attacks on his country's southern neighbour.
Guinea-Bissau Junta Presents ECOWAS With a Fait Accompli
- Inter Press Service
Six West African heads of state will attend a regional summit in Guinea on Monday, to discuss the situation in neighbouring Guinea and Cape Verde, where an Apr. 12 coup d'état aborted presidential elections. The Economic Community of West African States sent a delegation to Bissau, the capital, immediately following the coup to urge the immediate restoration of constitutional rule.
Millennium Goals Mock Nepal’s Slave Girls
- Inter Press Service
Five years after Nepal abolished Kamalari, a system of girl slavery, thousands of young women are still awaiting promised rehabilitation and support from the new democratic republic.
U.S. Patriot Act Kept Somalia Starving
- Inter Press Service
When war-torn Somalia was also ravaged by a drought-induced famine last year, which killed tens of thousands and displaced over a million people, international media was quick to blame the Islamist Al-Shabaab for blocking humanitarian assistance from reaching its zone of control in southern Somalia.
In Mali - Civilians Govern, the Junta Rules
- Inter Press Service
Cheick Modibo Diarra has been named interim prime minister of Mali as a transitional administration takes shape, to guide the country back to full constitutional government. But despite agreeing to hand power back to civilians, the military junta intends to retain an oversight role in the transition.
U.N. Chief Says Syria Has Broken Ceasefire
- Inter Press Service
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon the has called for a U.N. observer mission in Syria to be expanded, even though he says Damascus has failed to adhere to a ceasefire central to an agreed peace plan.
OP-ED: Azawad: The Latest African Border Dilemma
- Inter Press Service
On Apr. 6, Tuareg rebels in the West African city of Timbuktu unilaterally declared their independence from Mali and announced the birth of a new nation called Azawad. The declaration was widely ignored or condemned by neighbouring African states and the international community.
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