Global Issues
News headlines for “Conflicts in Africa”, page 405
Pakistan's Ahmadis Faced with Death or Exile
- Inter Press Service
BOSTON, Oct 20 (IPS) - Two years ago, gunmen shot dead Farooq Kahloun's newly married son Saad Farooq, 26, in an attack that severely injured Kahloun, his younger son Ummad, and Saad's father-in-law, Choudhry Nusrat.
Warmer Days a Catastrophe in the Making for Kenya’s Pastoralists
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Oct 20 (IPS) - Seif Hassan is a pastoralist from Garissa, Northern Kenya, some 380 kilometres outside of the capital, Nairobi. He sells his animals at the Garissa livestock market where, during a good season, pastoralists can sell up to 5,000 animals per week and "it is a cash-making business."
OPINION: Iraq’s Minorities Battling for Survival
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Oct 18 (IPS) - Through all of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's campaigns of ‘Arabization', they survived. The diverse Iraqi communities inhabiting the Nineveh plains – Yezidis, Turkmen, Assyrians and Shabak, as well as Kurds – held on to their unique identities and most of their historic lands.
Writing the Final Chapter on AIDS
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Oct 17 (IPS) - Although AIDS has defied science by killing millions of people throughout Africa in the last three decades, HIV experts now believe that they have found the magic numbers to end AIDS as a public health threat in 15 years.
Pressure Building on Obama to Impose Ebola Travel Ban
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (IPS) - President Barack Obama is under significant pressure to impose a range of restrictions on travellers coming to the United States from West African countries affected by the current Ebola outbreak.
Cash-Strapped Human Rights Office at Breaking Point, Says New Chief
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 16 (IPS) - After six weeks in office, the new U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein of Jordan launched a blistering attack on member states for insufficient funding, thereby forcing operations in his office to the breaking point "in a world that seems to be lurching from crisis to ever-more dangerous crisis."
Ethiopia Shows Developing World How to Make a Green Economy Prosper
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Oct 16 (IPS) - Ethiopia has experienced its fair share of environmental damage and degradation but nowadays it is increasingly setting an example on how to combat climate change while also achieving economic growth.
Africa Can Be its Own ‘Switzerland'
- Inter Press Service
MARRAKECH, Oct 16 (IPS) - Africa has the capacity to access at least 200 billion dollars for sustainable development investment but it will remain a slave to foreign aid unless it improves the climate for investment and trade and plugs illicit financial flows, development experts say.
Civil Society in Cuba Finds More Space Under the Reforms
- Inter Press Service
CÃRDENAS, Cuba, Oct 16 (IPS) - Cafés, real estate agencies, taxis and other small privately-owned businesses and cooperatives in Cuba have brought new life to the depressed local economy and have given rise to pockets of prosperity in the country's towns and cities.
OPINION: The U.S. and a Crumbling Levant
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (IPS) - As the international media is mesmerised by the Islamic State's advance on Kobani or ‘Ayn al-Arab on the Syrian-Turkish border, Arab states and the United States would need to look beyond Kobani's fate and the Islamic State's territorial successes and defeats.
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