Global IssuesNews headlines for “Conflicts in Africa”, page 4
FROM THE FIELD: South Sudan’s displaced youth, help power change
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Young people who were displaced by conflict in South Sudan have returned home to power change in their community.
Secretary-General welcomes Ethiopia’s pledge to allow humanitarian access to Tigray
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed Ethiopia’s commitment to ensuring aid workers can access the war-ravaged Tigray region, his Spokesperson said in a statement on Friday.
A Film Challenging Religious Norms
- Inter Press Service
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NEW DELHI, India, Jul 09 (IPS) - When Turkish- Norwegian writer and filmmaker Nefise Ozkal Lorentzen heard about Seyran Ates’ mixed gender mosque in Berlin, Germany, she immediately decided to make a film on Seyran’s life. It took three years to produce the film, ‘Seyran Ates: Sex Revolution and Islam’ a portrait of a female Imam and her struggles in activating revolution within Islam.
UN ready to promote ‘win-win solution’ for Blue Nile dam project
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The United Nations stands ready to support Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan in efforts to resolve their decade-long disagreement over the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), senior officials told the Security Council on Thursday.
Calls to Halt Construction of Massive Oilfield in One of Africas last Wildernesses
- Inter Press Service
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BRATISLAVA, Jul 08 (IPS) - Wildlife and environmental campaigners have called for international action as concerns grow over a project to create a massive oilfield in one of Africa’s last wildernesses.
DR Congo sees fresh government impetus to fight unrelenting violence in the east
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A new government action plan in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has the potential to reverse the urgent and tragic deterioration in the east of the country, where thousands of human rights abuses are being committed against civilians by armed militants, the senior UN official in the country told the Security Council on Wednesday.
UNICEF calls for action to reverse ‘spiraling protection crisis’ for children in West and Central Africa
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Action must be taken now to halt alarming attacks against children and abductions - including of students - in parts of West and Central Africa, the head of the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said in a statement on Wednesday.
UN appeals for resupply of aid and fuel in Tigray region
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Humanitarian operations have been gradually resuming in the war-ravaged Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, but resupply of aid and fuel for civilians caught up in the fighting is urgently needed, the United Nations said on Tuesday, citing information from its emergency relief agency, OCHA.
OHCHR voices deep concern over reported deaths of protesters in Kingdom of Eswatini
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The eruption of violence in the Kingdom of Eswatini in recent days is “deeply concerning”, amid reports that dozens of people have been killed or injured during protests calling for democratic reforms, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday.
South Sudan: UNICEF warns of ‘desperation and hopelessness’ for children 10 years after independence
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Ten years after South Sudan achieved independence, more children there are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance than ever before, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said on Tuesday.
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