Global Issues
News headlines for “Conflicts in Africa”, page 393
Sparks Fly As Sierra Leone’s VP Is Expelled From Party
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Mar 17 (IPS) - An internal war is roiling the administration of President Ernest Bai Koroma with the Vice President, Samuel Sam-Sumana, at dead center. The VP, expelled last week from the ruling All People's Congress (APC), is said to be forming a rival political movement from his home district in Kono, the country's raw diamond capital, and an election decider.
Women Often Forgotten In Cases Of Forced Disappearance
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 16 (IPS) - Governments must do more to address the impacts of forced disappearances of women, according to an international justice report released Monday.
Anger Seethes in Gabon after Wood Company Sacks Protesting Workers
- Inter Press Service
MBOMAO, Gabon, Mar 13 (IPS) - There is rising anger among trade unionists, environmentalists and civil society groups in Gabon after a wood company, Rain Forest Management (RFM), sacked 38 fixed-term workers last month in Mbomao, Ogooué-Ivindo province.
Opinion: A Radical Approach to Global Citizenship Education
- Inter Press Service
BRISBANE, Mar 13 (IPS) - Although global citizenship education has now received the recognition it deserves, much of the literature recycles old agendas under another name - 'education to promote peace and justice', 'sustainability', 'care for the environment', 'multi-faith' and 'multi-cultural understanding' - and so forth.
Safeguarding Africa’s Wetlands a Daunting Task
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Mar 12 (IPS) - African wetlands are among the most biologically diverse ecosystems on the continent, covering more than 131 million hectares, according to the Senegalese-based Wetlands International Africa (WIA).
Humanitarian Aid Under Fire Calls for New Strategies
- Inter Press Service
VIENNA, Mar 11 (IPS) - In the face of the growing number of crises taking place at the same time worldwide, humanitarian aid organisations – many of which have already reached their financial and logistic limits – are in desperate need of global coordination.
Opinion: A Year of Progress for “Children, Not Soldiers”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 07 (IPS) - One year ago, representatives of the last eight governments of the world named by the U.N. secretary-general for the recruitment and use of children in their security forces gathered at the United Nations in New York to declare they were ready to take the steps necessary to make their security forces child-free.
The 15 Journalists Putting Women’s Rights on the Front Page
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Mar 06 (IPS) - Media coverage of maternal, sexual and reproductive health rights is crucial to achieving international development goals, yet journalists covering these issues often face significant challenges.
Can Indigenous and Wildlife Conservationists Work Together?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 05 (IPS) - Indigenous and wildlife conservationists have common goals and common adversaries, but seem to be struggling to find common ground in the fight for sustainable forests.
Prominent Lawyer Defending the Poor Gunned Down in Mozambique
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Mar 04 (IPS) - As billions pour into Mozambique from foreign investors scooping up fields of coal and natural gas, the signs of newfound wealth are impossible to miss.
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