Global Issues
News headlines for “Conflicts in Africa”, page 387
Texans Propose to Adopt Threatened African Rhinos
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, May 13 (IPS) - Thefts, murders and mutilation of Africa's wildlife, from white rhinos to elephants with their prized horns and tusks, are at an all-time high, say conservationists who are keeping track of the poaching of species by fortune-seeking hunters.
Popular Nigerian Author Calls on Americans to ‘Reject Silence’
- Inter Press Service
, May 12 (IPS) - Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, co-curator of a spectacular World Voices week with over 100 African writers, closed the event with an admonition.
NGOs Urge Commission of Inquiry to Probe Sexual Abuse in U.N. Peacekeeping
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 12 (IPS) - A rising tide of sexual abuse in U.N. peacekeeping operations has triggered the launch of a high-level campaign to end the continued attacks on women and children and an urgent call for the creation of an independent commission of inquiry.
Reviving Dignity: The Remarkable Perseverance of Myanmar’s Displaced
- Inter Press Service
SITTWE, Myanmar, May 12 (IPS) - In Myanmar's Western Rakhine State, over a hundred thousand people displaced by inter communal violence that broke out nearly three years ago remain interned in camps on torrid plains and coastal marshes, struggling to survive.
Farmers Fight Real Estate Developers for Kenya’s Most Prized Asset: Land
- Inter Press Service
Migrants Between Scylla and Charybdis
- Inter Press Service
AUGUSTA, Syracuse, Italy, May 11 (IPS) - Not even a month has passed since over 700 hundred migrants lost their lives in their attempt to reaching the shores of Italy and the media spotlights have already faded on the island of Sicily, Italy's southern region and main gateway to Europe.
Prepaid Meters Scupper Gains Made in Accessing Water in Africa
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, May 08 (IPS) - While many countries appear to have met the U.N. Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water, rights activists say that African countries which have taken to installing prepaid water meters have rendered a blow to many poor people, making it hard for them to access water.
Living the Indigenous Way, from the Jungles to the Mountains
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, May 08 (IPS) - In the course of human history many tens of thousands of communities have survived and thrived for hundreds, even thousands, of years. Scores of these largely self-sustaining traditional communities continue to this day in remote jungles, forests, mountains, deserts, and in the icy regions of the North. A few remain completely isolated from modern society.
Kerry Brings Promise of 45 Million Dollars for Kenya’s Massive Refugee Camp
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, May 05 (IPS) - At a meeting with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry this week pledged an extra 45 million dollars for the U.N. which is sheltering over a half million refugees fleeing civil unrest, terrorism and violence in Somalia and South Sudan.
Urban Slums a Death Trap for Poor Children
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 05 (IPS) - It's called the urban survival gap – fuelled by the growing inequality between rich and poor in both developing and developed countries – and it literally determines whether millions of infants will live or die before their fifth birthday.
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