Global Issues
News headlines for “Conflicts in Africa”, page 409
OPINION: Bishop Appeals to U.N. to Rescue Minorities in Northwestern Iraq
- Inter Press Service
SAN DIEGO, Sep 12 (IPS) - For decades, the minority Christian population of Iraq has been suffering hardships. But in the summer months of 2014 - and since the beginning of the military campaign by ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, also known as ISIL or Islamic State) - the situation has gone from bad to intolerably worse.
Obama’s Anti-ISIS Strategy Met with Scepticism
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 12 (IPS) - U.S. President Barack Obama's new strategy to "degrade, and ultimately destroy" the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is being met with widespread scepticism among both hawks and doves, as well as regional specialists.
OPINION: Ebola Crisis Reversing Development Gains in Liberia
- Inter Press Service
MONROVIA, Sep 11 (IPS) - As the Ebola crisis continues to take a toll on people's lives and livelihoods in West Africa, the focus is increasingly not just on the health aspects of the crisis, but also on its social and economic consequences.
Will You be Chief? How Niger’s Traditional Leaders are Promoting Maternal Health
- Inter Press Service
BANDE, Niger, Sep 11 (IPS) - It is a long, 14-hour drive from Niger's capital city Niamey to the village of Bande. And the ride is a dreary one as the roadside is bare. The occasional, lone goat herder is spotted every few kilometres and the sightings become a cause of both confusion and excitement since there aren't any trees, or watering holes in sight.
Africa’s Dividing Farmlands A Threat To Food Security
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Sep 10 (IPS) - When Kiprui Kibet pictures his future as a maize farmer in the fertile Uasin Gishu county in Kenya's Rift Valley region, all he sees is the ever-decreasing plot of land that he has to farm on.
LGBT Visibility in Africa Also Brings Backlash
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 09 (IPS) - Eighteen-year-old Gift Makau enjoyed playing and refereeing football games in her neighbourhood in the North West Province of South Africa. She had come out to her parents as a lesbian and had never been heckled by her community, according to her cousin.
U.S. Military Joins Ebola Response in West Africa
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 08 (IPS) - The U.S. military over the weekend formally began to support the international response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
OPINION: ISIS Primarily a Threat to Arab Countries
- Inter Press Service
, Sep 05 (IPS) - Millions of words have been written about the rise, conquests, and savagery of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria, and Boko Haram in Nigeria. Both have declared an "Islamic State" in their areas although Boko Haram has not claimed the mantle of a successor to the Prophet Muhammad as ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has done in Greater Syria. The two groups are the latest in a string of terrorist organisations in the past two decades.
OPINION: Iraq On the Precipice
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Sep 04 (IPS) - The catastrophic events in Iraq that are unfolding daily are more significant than at any point in recent memory.
OPINION: Africans’ Land Rights at Risk as New Agricultural Trend Sweeps Continent
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Sep 01 (IPS) - Agriculture in Africa is in urgent need of investment. Nearly 550 million people there are dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods, while half of the total population on the continent live in rural areas.
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