Global Issues
News headlines for “Conflicts in Africa”, page 400
Faiths United Against Nuclear Weapons
- Inter Press Service
VIENNA, Dic 10 (IPS) - "Never was there a greater need than now for all the religions to combine, to pull their wisdom and to give the benefit of that combined, huge repository of wisdom to international law and to the world."
Africa Sets Demands for Post-2015 Climate Agreement
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Dic 10 (IPS) - The post-2015 global climate change agreement should be flexible and fully resourced or else condemn Africa to another cycle of poverty resulting from the adverse effects of climate change.
Starvation Strikes Zimbabwe's Urban Dwellers
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Dic 09 (IPS) - As unemployment deepens across this Southern African nation and as the country battles to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ahead of the December 2015 deadline, thousands of urban Zimbabweans here are facing starvation.
OPINION: Addressing Climate Change Requires Real Solutions, Not Blind Faith in the Magic of Markets
- Inter Press Service
BRISBANE, Dic 08 (IPS) - Norwegians know something of life in a climate change world. Migratory birds arrive earlier in spring, trees come into leaf before previously expected, and palsa mires (wetlands) are being lost as permafrost thaws.
Cameroon’s Anti-Terrorism Law – Reversal of Human Freedoms
- Inter Press Service
YAOUNDE, Dic 05 (IPS) - Legislators in Cameroon have voted in a draft law proposing the death sentence for all those guilty of carrying out, abetting or sponsoring acts of terrorism. The draft law, which is now being examined by the Cameroon Senate, call for punishment acts of terrorism committed by citizens, either individually or in complicity, with death.
OPINION: To Conserve Arctic Species, Take Action in Africa
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Dic 04 (IPS) - So great are the contrasts between the frozen empty expanses of the far north and Africa's baking deserts, steamy rain forests and savannahs that any direct connections between the two seem far-fetched - if they indeed exist at all.
Africa Laments as Kyoto Protocol Hangs in Limbo
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Dic 03 (IPS) - African countries fought hard for the Kyoto Protocol not to die on African soil at the 2011 Climate Change Conference in South Africa, but they say it is now languishing in limbo because developed countries are taking what they called "baby steps" towards ratification of the Doha Amendment that gave it a new lease of life.
Football Stars Join ‘Africa United’ Campaign to Stop Spread of Ebola
- Inter Press Service
MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, Dic 03 (IPS) - The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has joined a number of football stars, celebrities, international health organisations and corporations in the ‘Africa United' global health communications campaign aimed at preventing the spread of Ebola in West Africa.
Mubarak Acquitted as Egypt’s Counterrevolution Thrives
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 03 (IPS) - The acquittal of former Egyptian President Muhammad Hosni Mubarak is not a legal or political surprise. Yet it carries serious ramifications for Arab autocrats who are leading the counterrevolutionary charge, as well as the United States.
Ebola Overshadows Fight Against HIV/AIDS in Sierra Leone
- Inter Press Service
FREETOWN, Dic 01 (IPS) - The outbreak of the deadly Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone has dwarfed the campaign against HIV/AIDS, to the extent that patients no longer go to hospitals and treatment centres out of fear of contracting the Ebola virus.
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