News headlines for “Conflicts in Africa”, page 170

  1. WHO supports Uganda Ebola response, faces challenges fighting Haiti cholera outbreak

    - UN News

    The World Health Organization (WHO) continues to support Uganda as the Government there responds to a deadly Ebola outbreak, agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday, in his weekly press conference on global health challenges.

  2. Africa: Response to climate crisis doesn’t match ‘magnitude of the challenge’

    - UN News

    African States are on the front line of the climate crisis, a senior UN official told the Security Council on Wednesday, but far more action is needed to turn the tide on rising emissions, and reduce global warming.

  3. University Outreach Project Teaching Tissue Culture to Potato Farmers

    - Inter Press Service

    Nairobi, Oct 11 (IPS) - Until a few years ago, Kenyan potato farmer Richard Mbaria used to harvest just four tonnes of the crop from an acre of land thanks to poor quality seeds, combined with an attack on the crop by pests and diseases.

  4. Guterres: UN-African Union partnership a ‘cornerstone of multilateralism’

    - UN News

    Cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union (AU) is stronger than ever, however major challenges remain, Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Tuesday. 

  5. DR Congo sees deadly surge in intercommunal violence

    - UN News

    More than 140 people have been killed in horrific intercommunal violence in the west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday, briefing journalists in Geneva, that some victims had been beheaded.

  6. UN rights report details ‘unconscionable’ violations of migrants returning from Libya

    - UN News

    Migrants in Libya who are compelled to accept so-called ‘assisted returns’ to their countries of origin often find themselves as victims of widespread and systematic human rights violations and abuses in conditions below those of international human rights laws and standards, according to a UN human rights report released on Tuesday.

  7. Africa, The Looted Continent

    - Inter Press Service

    MADRID, Oct 10 (IPS) - Africa. The birthplace of “Homo Sapiens.” The land of plenty. The origin of farming. The richest region in terms of natural resources. And human capital. Home to over 1.3 billion humans, continues to be looted.

  8. Addressing the Cow in the Room, Lowing for Nutrition and Livelihoods

    - Inter Press Service

    Bulawayo, Oct 07 (IPS) - Meat, milk, and eggs are bad for you, and livestock is bad for the environment.

  9. Burkina Faso: UN rights office calls for probe into coup-related deaths and injuries

    - UN News

    The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has called for investigations into deaths and injuries resulting from last week’s coup in Burkina Faso, Spokesperson Seif Magango said on Friday.

  10. Africa is not a Country. It is a Continent.

    - Inter Press Service

    BRUSSELS (IDN), Oct 06 (IPS) - “If all I knew about Africa were from popular images, I too would think that Africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals and incomprehensible people, fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty and AIDS, unable to speak for themselves”. This quote from the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is in the introduction to Dipo Faloyin's book 'Africa is not a country'. It summarizes Faloyin's book nicely.

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