Global Issues
News headlines for “Conflicts in Africa”, page 157
New Business Technology Transfer Provides Benefits for African Pharmaceutical Industry
- Inter Press Service
KIGALI, Jan 25 (IPS) - A few months after German biotechnology company BioNTech announced the establishment of the first-ever local vaccine manufacturing in Rwanda, experts believe the successful implementation of such initiatives across the continent will require countries to acquire know-how while encouraging potential industrial partners in the pharmaceutical industry.
Digital Politics: Disconnected Citizens Are Kept Away from Opportunities
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Jan 25 (IPS) - In 2022, Saudi Arabia “quietly” sentenced Salma al-Shehab to 34 years in prison over her Twitter activity, marking the longest Saudi sentence ever for a peaceful activist. Fast forward and award-winning Ugandan author Kakwenza Rukirabashaija was charged with two counts of "offensive communication" after making unflattering remarks about the president and his son on Twitter. The message is clear: your well-crafted 280 characters can land you in jail.
Sudan: Progress in Darfur militia leader trial, but Government cooperation wanes
- UN News
“Swift progress” has been made at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the trial against a former Janjaweed leader in Sudan’s Darfur region, but cooperation with the Government has deteriorated, the UN Security Council heard on Wednesday.
Mali: WHO doctor seized by ‘unidentified assailants’, as UNHCR raises alarm over continuing violence
- UN News
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a statement deploring the abduction of a doctor working for the UN health agency in the town of Menaka, in eastern Mali, by unknown assailants on Monday.
We Want to Be Legal; We're Not 'Zama Zama' Criminals Say South African Artisanal Miners
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Jan 23 (IPS) - Mining towns across South Africa have become hostage to a booming but bloody illegal mining economy.
‘Let’s all become the champions the ocean needs’ – UN chief Guterres
- UN News
On the last day of his visit to Cabo Verde, UN Secretary-General António Guterres addressed the Ocean Race Summit Mindelo, saying that “ending the ocean emergency is a race we must win.”
UN convenes Lake Chad countries, amid growing regional crisis
- UN News
Amid worsening security, economic, and humanitarian crises, the third Lake Chad Basin High Level Conference has begun, aimed at addressing a range of long-standing issues and the needs of the population, including some 11 million people, who are in need of assistance.
UN rights chief condemns ‘cold-blooding killing’ of Eswatini human rights lawyer
- UN News
Authorities in Eswatini must launch a probe into the killing of a prominent human rights lawyer gunned down this past weekend, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Monday.
In drought-stricken Cabo Verde, UN chief finds hope for creating sustainable oasis
- UN News
The Secretary-General spent Sunday travelling through the diverse and varied landscapes of Santo Antão, where, after five years of intense drought, several development projects supported by the United Nations are helping to transform the agricultural sector of this westernmost island of Cabo Verde.
Cabo Verde ‘on the frontlines’ of climate crisis, says Guterres ahead of Ocean Summit
- UN News
How can a country secure a sustainable future if 99.3 per cent of its territory is water? UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Saturday arrived in Cabo Verde, the 10-island archipelago off West Africa’s Atlantic coast that is exploring innovative solutions to help answer that important question.
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