Global Issues
News headlines for “Conflicts in Africa”, page 425
Born Free, and Disinterested
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, May 05 (IPS) - South Africa's May 7 elections mark the first time in democratic history that those born into Nelson Mandela's post-apartheid ‘Rainbow Nation' can vote.
Disabled Forced Into Labour in Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, May 05 (IPS) - Workers Day on May 1 came and went, but it's only a day like any other for disabled 31-year-old street vendor Tsitsi Chikosha making a living selling goods from a makeshift table in downtown Harare.
Yemen Facing Another Implosion
- Inter Press Service
SANA'A, May 05 (IPS) - The popular uprising of 2011 pushed long time Yemeni leader Ali Abdullah Saleh out of power but it has emboldened the Houthi movement that is rapidly changing the balance of power in North Yemen.
On the Street That’s Home
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, May 05 (IPS) - Leila*, 19, has a soft, rasping voice and sad eyes. Her face is striped with long scars but nothing in her neat appearance hints that for the last nine years, her ‘home' has been the streets just north of downtown Cairo.
Fatwa Comes Too Late for Kashmir's Half-Widows
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, India, May 05 (IPS) - Forty-seven-year-old Shahmala's husband has been missing since 1993. In India's restive Jammu and Kashmir state, she is what is known as a half-widow, a woman who has no clue whether her husband is dead or alive.
With Refugees Comes Crime
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, May 04 (IPS) - Blaming Afghan refugees for a surge in crime, Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has placed restrictions on the movement of those who do not possess legal documents to stay in the country.
Syrian Split Divides Christians
- Inter Press Service
QAMISHLI, Syria, May 04 (IPS) - Malki Hana says his men are afraid of cameras. "Most of them are army defectors and they may easily get in trouble," says this commander of a mostly unknown armed group in Syria.
Raped, And Abandoned By Law
- Inter Press Service
LAHORE, Pakistan, May 03 (IPS) - Amina Bibi, an 18-year-old from Pakistan's Punjab province, was allegedly raped by four men on Jan. 5 this year. All the accused were granted bail. A desperate Amina set herself on fire outside a police station on Mar. 13 and succumbed to burn injuries the next day.
Women Voters Win
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, May 02 (IPS) - About a third of the voters in the Afghanistan presidential election were women. That still gives Afghan women a say in running the country, as never before.
U.S. Religious Progressivism “Way of the Future”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 02 (IPS) - The future of religion in U.S. politics lies not with conservatives but rather with religious progressives, social scientists here are suggesting, with a faith-based movement potentially able to provide momentum to a new movement for social justice.
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