Global Issues
News headlines for “Conflicts in Africa”, page 388
Popular Nigerian Writer Headlines at Blockbuster World Voices Fest
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, May 05 (IPS) - Prize-winning writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is hoping to break down some stereotypes at the upcoming World Voices Festival sponsored by the PEN America free expression group.
Video of Police Beating Black Soldier Sparks Protests by Israel’s Ethiopian Jews
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, May 04 (IPS) - A video that caught an Israeli police officer and a volunteer shoving and punching a black soldier in uniform outraged members of the Ethiopian Jewish community and set off a clash Sunday between Ethiopian Jews and police in central Tel Aviv.
Opinion: The West and Its Self-Assumed Right to Intervene
- Inter Press Service
ROME, May 04 (IPS) - The ‘West' is a concept that flourished during the Cold War. Then it was West against East in the form of the Soviet empire. The East was evil against which all democratic countries – read West – were called on to fight.
In India, a Broken System Leaves a ‘Broken’ People Powerless
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, May 04 (IPS) - As India paid glowing tributes to Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, the architect of its constitution and a champion of the downtrodden, on his 122nd birth anniversary last month, public attention also swivelled to the glaring social and economic discrimination that plagues the lives of lower-caste or ‘casteless' communities – who comprise over 16 percent of the country's 1.2 billion people.
As Ebola Approaches Zero, Immunisation Gets a Boost in West Africa
- Inter Press Service
DAKAR, May 04 (IPS) - As Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau and Liberia work to end Ebola, critical healthcare services damaged by the epidemic are beginning to be revitalised.
Unsafe Abortions Continue to Plague Kenya
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, May 02 (IPS) - She is just 14, but Janida avoids eye contact with others, preferring to look down at the ground and nodding her head if someone tries to engage her in conversation.
Nigeria's Anti-Corruption Pledge Resonates in Far-Off Zambia
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 29 (IPS) - Nigeria's president-elect is already making waves with his pledge to attack corruption, starting with the missing 20 billion dollars allegedly swiped from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation during the previous administration.
Anti-Foreigner Discrimination ‘Fostered in South African Schools’
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 28 (IPS) - A practice of denying admission to South African public schools of children without visas or whose parents are refugees from other African countries is creating a foundation for the current rash of xenophobia, critics of the practice say.
Chaos Grows in Burundi as President Defies Advice to Step Down
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 28 (IPS) - Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza, overriding objections to an ill-advised third term, now faces a growing popular movement to oust him after his term ends this coming June.
Cash-Strapped Latin American Countries Turn to China for Credit
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 28 (IPS) - Angolans are generally grateful for China's participation in the reconstruction of their central African country, in spite of the fact that some of the roads and buildings built by Chinese firms are of poor quality, and mainly Chinese labourers have been hired rather than local workers.
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