Global Issues
News headlines for “Conflicts in Africa”, page 392
Decent Employment Opportunities for Young People in Rural Africa
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Mar 27 (IPS) - Over half of the African continent's population is below the age of 25 and approximately 11 million young Africans are expected to enter the labour market every year for the next decade, say experts.
Kenya Struggles with Rising Alcoholism
- Inter Press Service
U.N. Security Council Focuses on Children as Victims of Armed Groups
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 26 (IPS) - 24 hours after the shocking kidnap of more than 400 women and children in Nigeria by Boko Haram, the United Nations Security Council discussed the safety of children as victims of non-state armed groups.
Gates Foundation Slammed for Plan to Privatise African Seed Markets
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 23 (IPS) - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has been attacked by activists over alleged support of a plan to privatise African agricultural markets.
CSW 59 Wraps Up As Delegates Look Toward 2016
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 23 (IPS) - The Commission on the Status of Women, one of the biggest events on the calendar for United Nations headquarters in New York City, is over for another year.
Opinion: Water and Sanitation in Nigeria - Playing the Numbers Game
- Inter Press Service
OWERRI, Nigeria, Mar 22 (IPS) - In Nigeria, it's all about the numbers. My nation recently became the largest economy in Africa by some distance, with a GDP of well over 500 billion dollars.
High-Tech to the Rescue of Southern Africa’s Smallholder Farmers
- Inter Press Service
DURBAN, South Africa, Mar 22 (IPS) - Agriculture is the major employer and a backbone of the economies of Southern Africa.
Palestinian Women Victims on Many Fronts
- Inter Press Service
GAZA CITY, Mar 21 (IPS) - Israel's siege of Gaza, aided and abetted by the Egyptians in the south, has aggravated the plight of Gazan women, and the Jewish state's devastating military assault on the coastal territory over July and August 2014 exacerbated the situation.
Victims of Clerical Sex Abuse Join Forces in Latin America
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Mar 20 (IPS) - Victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Latin America are taking the first steps towards grouping together in order to bolster their search for justice – a struggle where they have found a new ally: filmmaking.
Unseen and Unheard: Afghan Baloch People Speak Up
- Inter Press Service
ZARANJ, Afghanistan, Mar 18 (IPS) - Balochistan, divided by the borders of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, is a vast swathe of land the size of France. It boasts enormous deposits of gas, gold and copper, untapped sources of oil and uranium, as well as a thousand kilometres of coastline near the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz.
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