Global Issues
News headlines for “Conflicts in Africa”, page 381
Somali-Based Pirates Down But Not Out
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 20 (IPS) - While the economic cost of Somali piracy has fallen and considerable progress has been made in deterring pirate operations, the latest attacks on Iranian fishing vessels by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean may be another signal that it is too early to cut back international counter-piracy efforts, according to a new report.
Opinion: Iran Deal Has Far-Reaching Potential to Remake International Relations
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jul 20 (IPS) - The Vienna agreement between Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council acting in concert with Germany has the potential to remake international relations beyond the immediate goal of stopping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Opinion: Mandela Day – Where Do We Stand Today?
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Jul 18 (IPS) - Today Jul. 18 is Mandela Day, the annual international day in honour of the late Nelson Mandela, the first democratically-elected President of the Republic of South Africa.
Opinion: Homosexuality Will Never Be Eliminated. How About Eliminating Homophobia?
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jul 17 (IPS) - A report published in June by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), in collaboration with the Uganda National Academy of Sciences, could help reshape understandings of human sexuality – if African policymakers take the time to consider the report's findings.
Fear Stalks Students in Northern Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan/UNITED NATIONS, Jul 15 (IPS) - It has been seven months since a group of gunmen raided the Army Public School in Pakistan's northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, killing 145 people, including 132 students.
In Search of Jobs, Cameroonian Women May End Up as Slaves in Middle East
- Inter Press Service
YAOUNDE, Jul 15 (IPS) - Her lips are quavering her hands trembling. Susan (not her real name) struggles to suppress stubborn tears, but the outburst comes, spontaneously, and the tears stream down her cheeks as she sobs profusely.
Sixty-Five More Years Until Electricity for All in Africa - Report
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, Jul 14 (IPS) - Sub-Saharan Africa is still far behind in its ability to generate electricity, hampering growth and frustrating its ambitions to catch up with the rest of the world.
Pledges for Humanitarian Aid Fall Far Short of Deliveries
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 13 (IPS) - When international donors pledge millions of dollars either for post-conflict reconstruction or for humanitarian aid, deliveries are rarely on schedule: they are either late, fall far below expectations or not delivered at all.
New Malaria Strategy Would Double Current Funding
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS/ADDIS ABABA, Jul 13 (IPS) - Although malaria is both preventable and curable, it still killed an estimated 584,000 people in 2013, the majority of them African children.
"Get to Zero, Stay at Zero" - The Comprehensive Plan to End Ebola
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 11 (IPS) - "The threat is never over until we rebuild," Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma stressed at an Ebola Recovery Conference Friday in New York.
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