News headlines for “Conflicts in Africa”, page 149

  1. Terrorism & its Impacts on Water Access in the Sahel

    - Inter Press Service

    OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso, Mar 14 (IPS) - Burkina Faso’s interim President Captain Ibrahim Traoré spoke late last year of the conflicts that are now blighting his country and much of his region. He described the situation in Burkina Faso as predictable given the endemic weaknesses in governance that he believes have led to the economic abandonment of many young people, particularly outside of urban areas.

  2. Solar Powered Freezer Improving Immunization Coverage in Hard-to-Reach Rural Villages

    - Inter Press Service

    NAIROBI, Mar 13 (IPS) - Up until 2019, nurses in three health facilities located in the semi-arid south-eastern Kenya region of Makueni County struggled to bring critical health services closer to a hard-to-reach population scattered across three remote, far-flung villages.

  3. UN experts call on South Africa to create torture prevention body

    - UN News

    South Africa must swiftly set up a watchdog mechanism to examine prisons, detention centres, and other facilities, UN independent experts on torture prevention said on Monday, citing “entrenched” ill treatment.

  4. INTERVIEW: São Tomé and Príncipe readies for graduation day

    - UN News

    São Tomé and Príncipe is due to graduate from its current status as one of the world’s Least Developed Countries (LDCs), a journey that is testament to its economic successes, but is not without challenges, as Eric Overvest, the senior UN official in the country, tells UN News.

  5. Next Ebola Outbreak Not a Matter of If, but When

    - Inter Press Service

    KAMPALA & MUBENDE, Mar 10 (IPS) - It is two months since the World Health Organization declared Uganda free of the most recent Sudan ebolavirus, which killed 55 people.

  6. 300,000 flee ongoing violence in DR Congo in February alone: UNHCR

    - UN News

    Humanitarians issued an alert on Friday for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where heavy fighting continues to uproot hundreds of thousands of people in east of the country.

  7. Horn of Africa hunger emergency: ‘129,000 looking death in the eyes’

    - UN News

    Life-threatening hunger caused by climate shocks, violent insecurity and disease in the Horn of Africa, have left nearly 130,000 people “looking death in the eyes” and nearly 50 million facing crisis levels of food insecurity, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

  8. International Women’s Day, 2023 - Digital Inclusion is Vital for Strengthening Women’s Rights in Africa

    - Inter Press Service

    NEW YORK, Mar 08 (IPS) - The internet has a pivotal role to play in empowering women and girls across Africa, but preexisting forms of gender discrimination and marginalization are underpinning a widening digital gender divide.

  9. International Women’s Day, 2023 - First Ever Women Council of Elders Making In-roads in North Eastern Kenya

    - Inter Press Service

    NAIROBI, Mar 08 (IPS) - Low literacy levels, a high prevalence of outlawed Female Genital Mutilation, early marriages, forced marriages, low contraceptive usage, multiple births, as well as high maternal, infant and child deaths, define the life of a woman in Kenya’s vast North Eastern region.

  10. Our AIDS Response Must Acknowledge and Bridge Gendered Digital Inequalities

    - Inter Press Service

    JOHANNESBURG, Mar 07 (IPS) - Recent crises have pushed the gender inequality gap even wider and new technology has brought new threats to women’s autonomy and safety. This year’s International Women's Day celebrated under the theme “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality” is an opportunity to strengthen efforts to uplift and empower women and girls’ digital participation to ultimately improve their lives.

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