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News headlines for “Conflicts in Africa”, page 382
"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.
South Sudanese Girls Given Away As ‘Blood Money’
- Inter Press Service
TORIT, Eastern Equatoria, South Sudan, Jul 10 (IPS) - So extreme are gender inequalities in South Sudan that a young girl is three times more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than to reach the eighth grade – the last grade before high school – according to Plan International, one of the oldest and largest children's development organisations in the world.
“Why Hire a Lawyer When You Can Buy a Judge?”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 08 (IPS) - A woman is stopped at a checkpoint; she gives birth, and dies. Another is sold in a slave market. A boy is killed by a tank. A young man drowns at sea, trying to reach a haven safe from oppression and poverty.
Opinion: Unlocking the Potential of Mali’s Young Women and Men
- Inter Press Service
BAMAKO, Jul 07 (IPS) - The recent peace agreements in Mali offer grounds for optimism. It's now time to capitalise on the accord to accelerate recovery, reconciliation and development. An important part of that process will entail placing the country's youth at the center of the country's agenda for peace and prosperity.
Will the New BRICS Bank Break with Traditional Development Models, or Replicate Them?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 07 (IPS) - Just days ahead of a summit of the BRICS group of emerging economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) in which the five countries are expected to formally launch their New Development Bank (NDB), 40 NGOs and civil society groups have penned an open letter to their respective governments urging transparency and accountability in the proposed banking process.
Ebola Recovery Focuses on Strengthening Africa’s Health Systems
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 07 (IPS) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, addressing delegates in a run-up to an international Ebola recovery conference, said last month that "all of the investments, all of the sacrifices and all of the risks by relief workers" would be squandered if an outbreak of the disease recurs.
Opinion: Religion and the SDGs – The ‘New Normal’ and Calls for Action
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 06 (IPS) - In 2007, an op-ed in the International Herald Tribune argued that you "gotta have faith in the U.N".
Financial Inclusion Key to Climate Risk Reduction for Zambia's Smallholders
- Inter Press Service
MOYO, Pemba District, Zambia, Jul 06 (IPS) - In the advent of unpredictable weather, smallholder rain-dependent agriculture is increasingly becoming a risky business and the situation could worsen if, as seems likely, the world experiences levels of global warming that could lead to an increase in droughts, floods and diseases, both in frequency and intensity.
U.N. Remains Divided Over Domestic and State Terrorism
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 01 (IPS) - When nine African-American worshippers were gunned down by a white supremacist inside a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina last month, there was a sharp division of opinion in the United States whether that murderous act of killing innocent civilians constituted a "hate crime" or an "act of terrorism."
Opinion: The ACP at 40 – Repositioning as a Global Player
- Inter Press Service
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